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...Native American Activist Spends His 30th Year in Prison ~ Interview with Barry Bachrach, attorney for Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...

Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....

Three members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Lumumba Bandele, Desaw Floyd, and Djbril Toure were arrested in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn just past midnight this morning. At the time of their arrest, the three were engaged in the legal monitoring of police activities as part of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Copwatch Program....

There is no shock in the recent campaign to discredit Ward Churchill... We are sure Ward is at home asking himself questions such as: why now, what will be gained by disabling me at this time and how will this negatively affect the movement?...

Actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis died Friday in Miami Beach. He was 87 years old. For half a century, Davis led a distinguished career as an actor, playwright and director. Along with his wife, Ruby Dee, he was a renowned civil rights activist and an unforgettable figure in the African American struggle for equality. We spend the hour remembering Ossie Davis: From his eulogies to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to his opposition to the war in Iraq. We hear from actor Danny Glover ...

We will always remember Ossie Davis....

Editorial by Willie Ratcliff...

Many Jewish writers have often compared Jews to American Indians, before and after the Holocaust. To take but one example, "Raphael Seligmann has gone on record stating that the Jews are 'the Indians of Germany'” (Friedberg, p. 354). However, the reverse has not been deemed acceptable, particularly since the birth of what Norman G. Finkelstein calls the Holocaust Industry in the Six Day War. For instance, "Rabbi Irving Greenberg, founder of the Holocaust Resource Center and first...

Furthering its goals of visibility for gay Asian and Pacific Islander males (GAM), Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) announces a nationwide call for photography submissions around the theme "Coming of Age: GAM in America." Winning entries will be presented in a multimedia arts exhibition scheduled for Gay Pride Month, June 2005, and be featured in a calendar slated for national distribution....

January 31, 2005 The following is a statement from Ward Churchill: In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same exte...