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Support Navajo Community: Stop Forced Relocation On Big Mountain, Black Mesa, Arizona! Support Targeted Navajo Communities
STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, ARIZONA!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 5:47pm PST
Support people of color/low income work in GULF Support grassroots groups lead by people of color/low income communities working on the destruction in the Gulf Coast Region....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 4:36pm PST
Racism Cause for Worry with Immigrants WASHINGTON D.C. — Legal immigrants are worried about a rising tide of racism in the United States and said the first sign is a proposed law in Congress that would make undocumented aliens criminals and have them deported....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:55pm PST
The True Story of the Historic 1968 Chicano Student Walkout in East L.A. "Walkout" - a new HBO film tells the story of the 1968 walkout by high school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions. We speak with the executive director of the film, Moctesuma Esparza. An award-winning film producer and community activist, Esparza helped organize the 1968 walkout and was arrested and jailed along with 12 others for conspiracy to disturb the peace....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:19am PST
South Dakota Abortion Ban Draws Fiery Opposition from Native Americans Cecilia Fire Thunder, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, recently made waves when she said a clinic on the Pine Ridge reservation could provide abortions if South Dakota’s new abortion ban goes into effect. The ban is set to go into effect July 1st. It would prohibit all abortions except to save the life of the mother – with no exceptions for rape or incest....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:02am PST
Old Civil Rights Groups Missing-in-Action As Immigrants Hit the Streets As a groundswell of immigrant rights activism spreads across the country, the old-guard black civil rights movement is dragging its feet, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:36pm PST
Blood Money? Sudan Government Pays Close to $1 Million for New York Times Supplement As a student-led campaign urging divestment from companies doing business in Sudan gain momentum in the U.S., the Sudanese government pays close to $1 million for an eight-page supplement in the paper. The ad advocates investing in companies operating in Sudan. In response, Sudan activists flooded the New York Times with demands for an apology....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:08am PST
Immigrant Rights Protests Spread -- New Chapter in Civil Rights Movement Hispanic media report that hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters are marching in cities across the country on behalf of immigrant rights....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:18am PST
Are Some Human Beings Illegal? Last Week's BC cover story raised the subject of the relationship between African Americans and Latinos, blacks and browns. We singled a particularly contemptible maneuver by Kasim Reed, a black DLC Georgia state legislator from Atlanta who tried to outdo Republican viciousness when it came to proposing punitive measures against immigrants. Reed authored a bill which would imprison anyone convicted of using a false ID to get a job for five years. Predictably, his proposal was embraced by lead...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 11:16am PST
Bangladeshi Mosque in Michigan Vandalized NEW YORK – Several unidentified teenagers reportedly vandalized a mosque in Hamtramck, Michigan last week. Many consider this as another racial bias act against Muslims....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 6:47am PST
Islam and globanalisation Until late last month, when Salman Rushdie added his name to those of a few other like-minded souls and signed a statement attacking Muslims for having been outraged by a set of Danish cartoons depicting their prophet with satirical ridicule, something seemed amiss in that whole global uproar, writes Hamid Dabashi*...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 4:57pm PST
Congressional Members and Staff are asked to join the call for Unity with Black Farmers Congressional Members and Staff are requested to support Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Unity Rally in Washington, D.C. This story remains painfully clear, America needs a healthy Rural America that strengthens family farmers of all races and protects American farmland for future generations....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:16pm PST
Of Caliphs and the Caliphate: Setting the Record Straight Religious terms sacred to Muslims have been misused by extremists and amplified by Western media, writes New America Media contributor Asma Afsaruddin. First came "jihad," then "sharia" and now "caliphate." Afsaruddin is associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and author of "Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership" and the forthcoming "The First Muslims: A Shor...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:04pm PST
Why Young Black Men Are Endangered A recent study found that young blacks in their 20s and 30s are more likely to be jobless, imprisoned, join gangs, father children out of wedlock and kill other young blacks than young white or Hispanic men. But according New America Media's Associate Editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson, it did not satisfactorily answer the question, why?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:09pm PST
FLASHPOINTS radio - EVON PETER on M25 March for Sacred Sites and Human Rights, Flagstaff (audio/mpeg 15.8MB) Interview about the March for Sacred Sites and Human Rights, March 25th in Flagstaff, Arizona. Evon Peter is chairman of Native Movement and former tribal chief of the Neetsaii Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada. The US senate voted on Thursday March 16 to approve a bill with a provision attached that would allow drilling in the Arctic Refuge, setting the stage for yet another showdown in Congress on the issue....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 6:08pm PST
After Criticizing Bush, Harry Belafonte is Disinvited from the Coretta Scott King Funeral We hear from legendary musician, actor and humanitarian Harry Belafonte on why he was disinvited from speaking at the funeral of Coretta Scott King and how he been blacklisted in places due to his political views....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:34am PST
Archbishop removes beloved Black priest from the oldest Black Catholic church in U.S. “Archbishop Hughes called me at 11:29 this morning to inform me that he had heard the recommendation of the Appeals Board that St. Augustine Church be closed as a parish as of March 15, 2006. He concurs with that recommendation,” Rev. Jerome LeDoux, DWM, this week told parishioners....
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 8:13am PST
Beware of Christian Zealots Who Persecute Black Muslims – The Rest of Us Are Next Black folks, get ready for The McCarran Act, Part II. And this time, it may get ugly....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:17am PST
Join Our H.O.P.E. for Darfur Campaign Stand In for Victims of the Slaughter
in Darfur...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 4:33pm PST
No Requiem for a Black Conservative When black Republicans favored by the GOP fall from grace, they don't fall very far, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an associate editor for New America Media and a political analyst....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:52pm PST
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