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Urgent Action! Racist Music Attacks Asian Tsunami Victims at Hot 97, New York City! Calling A Protest Letter And Rally Against The Radio Station!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 4:17am PST
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Day. He was born in 1929. Last week, he would have turned 76 years old. In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter. After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintaine...
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 1:51pm PST
To the Memory of King: A Love Letter to APOC So now, in 2005, when there is a greatly disproportionate black prison population, a greatly disproportionate percentage of blacks in poverty, when there is one black senator, few blacks in other positions of political or economic power, whither King's dream?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 12:19pm PST
James Forman 1928-2005: Civil Rights Pioneer Dies At 76 Civil rights organizer James Forman has died at the age of 76. In the early 1960s he served as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was seen as a major strategist within the civil rights movement. We hear a 1969 speech by James Forman and we speak with former field secretary for SNCC Robert Moses and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:56am PST
CSFH Warns Against Hate Groups Exploiting Tsunami Crisis Stay clear of sectarian groups such as India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), Sewa International and Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA)....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 1:38am PST
Congressmember Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Life of Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress and a 1972 presidential candidate, has died at age 80. We talk to Congressmember Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington, D.C. [includes rush transcript] Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress and a 1972 presidential candidate, has died at age 80. She died Saturday night in Florida. Chisholm was known as an outspoken advocate for women and people of color during seven terms representing New York...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 8:55pm PST
American Charity Sues to Have its Humanitarian Assets Unblocked The American non-profit humanitarian relief organization, Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA) has filed suit against Departments of Treasury and Justice, in the District of Columbia, to have its assets designated for humanitarian aid, unblocked. The U.S.-based charity, which has been unfairly targeted and forced to shut down on the eve of its busiest month of the year, wants its humanitarian aid sent to the most needy in Asia and Africa....
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:52am PST
Folks Don't Get It: On African-American voter disenfranchisement in the 2004 election Since the election all the discussions which have raised the issue of Black disenfranchisement -- whether in the context of Ohio this year, Florida in 2000, or generally -- as a form of electoral fraud have ended up devolving into ignorance....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 3:43pm PST
44% of Americans Back Limits on Muslims' Rights: Poll CAIRO, December 18 (IslamOnline.net) – A new nation-wide poll showed that a major section of the American society believes fellow Muslim citizens pose a national threat and supports curbing Muslims’ civil rights and monitoring their places of worship....
Posted: Sat, Dec 18, 2004 9:23am PST
Standing up for justice and truth SAN ANTONIO, United States, 5 December 2004 (BWNS) -- When she was just a girl, Elsie Austin (1908-2004) bravely stood up for justice and truth, and she never stopped doing so throughout her long life. One of only two African-American children in her Cincinnati classroom, Elsie pointed out errors in a textbook that denigrated the role of Africans in world history....
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 2:58pm PST
Race, Place, and Housing are Interconnected, Report Says Counties with consistently high concentrations of racial or ethnic minorities are the last bastions of poor quality housing in this nation, according to a Housing Assistance Council report released today....
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2004 12:35am PST
Black Farmers Historic Lawsuit Black Farmers Seek to Resolve Historic Lawsuit...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 11:30am PST
Day 1 of the John Graham Hearings his evening I spoke with Terrance LaLiberte, attorney for John Graham,
Southern Tutchone First Nations man fighting extradition from Canada to
the United States. The reception between this attorney and myself was like
that storm outside this kitchen window. Crackling, odd interference....
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 1:04am PST
Electronic Voting for Racial Equality Georgia's introduction of electronic voting reduced uncounted votes for both predominantly Black and white precincts, but the reduction was more dramatic for Blacks than whites....
Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2004 8:12pm PST
Western Shoshone Defense Project Western Shoshone and Allies Challenge Department of
Interior Decision to Open Spiritual and Cultural Area
to Further Destruction by Gold Mining...
Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 11:24pm PST
Torture charges filed against George W. Bush in Canadian Court This is not satire....
Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 6:14pm PST
NRHA Releases National PSA in Response to HIV Rates in Rural Communities of Color The National Rural Health Association Releases a National Public Service Announcement in Response to the Increasing Number of HIV/AIDS Cases in Rural Communities of Color...
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 3:17pm PST
Alabama clings to segregationist past US state with racist history votes to keep 'separate schools for white and coloured children' as part of constitution...
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 8:28pm PST
Your Comments Needed to Save Nine Mile Canyon! Sacred Land Defense Team Action Alert - Comments Needed by 11/29!
Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Native American Ancestral Sites and Petroglyphs in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:48am PST
Tennessee Muslims Denied Right to Construct Cemetery TENNESSEE, United States, November 24 (IslamOnline.net) – The Muslim community in the southern US state of Tennessee has been denied the right to construct a cemetery over protests from local residents....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:16am PST
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