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Indian Tribes and Katrina: Overlooked by the Government, Relief Organizanations, ... We take a look the plight of American Indians living in southeast Louisiana weeks after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. Tribal leaders say they have been overlooked by the media, relief organizations and the federal government....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:25am PDT
Indigenous Activists Blast Columbus Day as "Propping Up of Racist Propaganda" Today is known as Columbus Day - we take a look at why some people are not commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called "new world."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:22am PDT
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana The Native American tribes of the Houma, Pointe-au-Chien, and Biloxi Chitimacha of southern Louisiana have faced a monumental struggle in channeling relief efforts to their tribal members devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 7:37pm PDT
US housing official: rebuilt New Orleans will have fewer poor blacks President Bush’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged the administration’s real vision for New Orleans when he told reporters last week that the city would have far fewer poor black residents once reconstruction is completed....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:10am PDT
When Spin hurts innocent victims, by people in positions of power, 
Racism has expanded to incorporate people who thought they were imune, to the suffering of people of color only to be incorporated into the big picture. The question is with unlimited amount of money and a Earth that can not survive will the money save them? And if you are not rich and your expendable income is becoming less do you feel more secure?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 3:57pm PDT
Lurid reports of rape, murder in Katrina’s aftermath exposed as frauds A series of articles over the past week have confirmed that the widespread reports of massive looting, murder and violence in hurricane-devastated New Orleans were either concocted out of whole cloth or grossly exaggerated. In the first several days after New Orleans was inundated, these stories were disseminated by government officials at the federal, state and local level, and trumpeted by the media in banner headlines and lurid TV accounts....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:09am PDT
Has the Government Abandoned New Orleans' Top Black Colleges? Two historically black colleges in New Orleans remain closed after Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Reopening the colleges requires money, which may prove a challenge. We speak with the President of Xavier University about this....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:39am PDT
Yesterday was the birthday of George L. Jackson (Sept.23, 1941 - August 21, 1971) If ever there were a time when George Jackson's writings were right on target, it's NOW....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 10:34am PDT
Kanye was right. Now let's do something about it. As we know from history, when we stand together, we can change this
country. That's why we're writing. Our goal is to build a group of 250,000
Black folks and others who are willing to take a simple pledge: to protect
those of us who are struggling at the margins, to make sure they're not
left behind again, and to help them gain a political voice....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 5:08pm PDT
The Black Action Network / local National Action Network will be affected greatly by hurricaneac Local chapter of NAN (Lafayette - Iberia - St. Martin) already overwhelmed by
issues concerning hurricane Katrina, now under the gun of hurricane Rita in south central Louisiana....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 9:21am PDT
REMEMBERING THE FILIPINO MARTYRS OF THE RESISTANCE AGAINST THE U.S.-MARCOS DICTATORSHIP 
Over 4 decades ago,in September 1972, with U.S. support, Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines and killed thousands of Filipino women, peasants, workers, Moros, Igorots, and others. Never again will Filipinos allow imperialist and comprador brutality to prevail. Let us remember those who fell in the night--woman activist Liliosa Hilao, tortured and murdered by the military; Jallores and Tagamolila, New People's Army combatants, and many others--who continue to inspire the ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 8:08pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina -- Beware of disaster profiteers and peddlers of hate! The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate urges donors to make an informed decision about how they want their contributions channeled and ask all those committed to broad values of secularism, pluralism and justice to oppose the forces that use the pretext of relief operations to further their sectarian agendas....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 12:10pm PDT
Roberts Grilled on Voting Rights Act Chief Justice nominee John Roberts was grilled on a number of contentious issues on the second day of his Senate confirmation hearing, including abortion, civil rights, women's rights and education. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:20am PDT
New Orleans Resident Discusses Race and Looting at Circle K New Orleans resident Mike Howell is a "holdout" - one of those refusing to leave his home - in the French Quarter. He discusses the looting of a local grocery store saying, "this could happen in Santa Monica, California, it could happen on Long Island, New York, it could happen in Palm Beach, Florida...if people felt they were going to run out of food and water."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:51am PDT
When the sky is taken by storm: The rage and anguish of Black America The unprecedented in America destruction of New Orleans and other vast regions of the South by Hurricane Katrina coupled with the studied, indifferent response of the federal government has caused rage and anguish throughout Black America. Though these tragic events are yet unfolding, it is not too early to ask, is this a seminal event in African American history?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 9:51am PDT
Cornel West On Katrina: Exiles from a city and from a nation As the tide of evacuees rolls into Baton Rouge, Jamie Doward learns that thousands will not go back to New Orleans - and the effect on the economy across the South will be deep and prolonged...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:00pm PDT
Bush and Third World America very good read!!...story of black america, third world america, racism, the elite, corporatist america, etc...wow!!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:49pm PDT
Unbearable Crime On The Mississippi When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson's indignant cry, "This is the bottom of the slave ship we are looking at."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:38pm PDT
Blasphemy About New Orleans: A God With Whom I Am Not Familiar This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt:
You don't know me. But I know you....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:36pm PDT
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