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Hundreds of people gathered at New York University on Thursday to protest a game called “Find the Illegal Immigrant” organized by the school’s Republican club. Democracy Now! was there to speak with students on both sides....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 7:36am PST
The Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts has become the first American Indian tribe to be recognized by the U.S. government since President Bush took office. Peter Micek is a writer for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 6:25am PST
A Latina Santa Clara University student writes about the "South of the Border" party at SCU, where white students dressed up as Latino stereotypes....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 6:38pm PST
Friday, Feb 23
Save the Legacy
All Ages Show
$10
6:00 - 10:00 PM
No Alcohol or Drugs!
Intertribal Friendship House
523 International Blvd, Oakland
(between 5th and 6th Avenue)
Performers include:
All Nations Drummers
Ras K'Dee and Eric Paul of One Struggle Band
Headrush
Goodshield of the band 7th Generation Rise
Nosys
Live Broadcast on KPFA 94.1 FM at 8:00 PM!
For more info Call George Galvis @ 510.689-7350
Saturday, Feb 24
Medicine Warriors All Nations Rou...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 5:27pm PST
Zocalo Coffeehouse
645 Bancroft Ave at Dutton Ave
San Leandro...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 3:58pm PST
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 1:09pm PST
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is very clearly another masterful sleight of hand by George Bush and Co. Like his many other tricks (remember the “Clear Skies” program that actually weakened the Clean Air Act), NCLB is full of seemingly lofty goals and requirements ostensibly focused on improving education for all children, while actually attacking the entire project of public education. Most strikingly, its supporters have positioned it as an unshrinking effort to address the racial and class in...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:27am PST
The raised fists of two African-American Olympic medal winners at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, is one of the most iconic images of our time. The man standing on the podium in 1st place, Tommie Smith, talks about that moment and his new autobiography, “Silent Gesture.”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 8:00am PST
150th Black Sacramento: Black History Month Exhibit at the Folsom History Museum
co-hosts a community workshop on regional Black History
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Lecture and History Workshop
5:30 p.m. ~ 7:30 p.m.
Folsom History Museum
823 Sutter Street
Folsom, California
Black History Month Reception
7:30 p.m. ~ Until...
Yeagers Brew Pub
727 Trader Lane
Folsom, California...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 7:06am PST
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study on U.S. prisons foresees an increase of 192,000 inmates in the next five years -- a 13 percent rise in overall prison population. NAM associate editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson probes one part of that story -- the increasing rates of black-on-black violence in many cities across America. Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of "The Emerging Black GOP Majority" (Middle Passage Press, September 2006)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 6:22am PST
Two short documentaries on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 1:19pm PST
INGLEWOOD — A coalition of African-American and Latino community leaders will rally this Saturday, amid fears expressed by some that heightened tensions between African-Americans and Latinos could lead to an all-out race war....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:52am PST
Robert Stanford, a Caucasian, Jewish civil rights activist has allegedly been barred from the slate of an upcoming Modesto/Stanislaus National Association for the Advancement of Colored People election....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 7:29am PST
Station 40
3030 B 16th St. (at Mission St.)
across from 16th St. BART station...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 9:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 1:59am PST
Martin Luther King Union Building, University of California, Berkeley campus...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 8:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 12:13am PST
Just as in San Francisco the folks in East Palo Alto are dealing with crime and violence. This march brought out the community in very large numbers, and announced to the public at large - solutions to the problem....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 5:51pm PST
Chip Fitzgerald, longest help Black Panther in captivity needs you PHONE CALL to get him off lockdown.
Chip is up for parole on March 29, 2007....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 11:08am PST
Chip Fitzgerald is the longest held Black Panther comrade in captivity. He is up for parole on March 29, 2007. Legally, he has every reason to be given his FREEDOM!!
HE NEEDS YOUR LETTER OF SUPPORT! HE NEEDS HIS COMMUNITY!!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 11:08pm PST
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davis at the funeral of Malcolm X
Faith Temple Church Of God
February 27,1965
posted in honor of Malcolm X and his memory by the Peace and Freedom Party of Fresno County (CA)...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 9:56am PST
Martin Luther King Building, U.C. Berkeley Campus...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 8:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 12:24am PST