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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Apr. 30 (News) - Financial District — Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from their Zuccotti Park encampment in Lower Manhattan, approximately 1,000 Occupy Wall Street activists rallied together to take over another public space for their movement. They hoped to

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Texas A&M Cadets to be led by 1st black commander

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Michael Graczyk - Apr. 12 (News) - Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations. ...

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates ConcernedCityLimits.org

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.

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Years of Warnings, Then a Boy’s Death

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

City Limits - Mar. 13 (News) - Norwood — This is the second chapter in a five-chapter story. Click here to see the rest of the series. But the fire that took 8-year-old Jashawn Parker in the late evening of Aug. 6, 2002, on a typically dense northwest-Bronx block somehow never got muc

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Michelle Alexander: Jim Crow Still Exists In America : NPR

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Fresh Air - Jan. 16 (Interview) - "Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon."

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Obama's 2012 Chances and Democratic Demographic Dreaming

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Sean Trende - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The latest report from Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the progressive Center for American Progress contains a thoughtful examination of President Obama's re-election chances. There's an awful lot packed into the 60 pages of text, but the basic thrust is

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Herman Cain, a man at odds with the skin he's in

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain neatly encapsulates an article of faith for many white conservatives — namely, that they, not black and brown people, are the true victims of bigotry. Cain comes across as a man profoundly at odds with the skin he's in.

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"News For All The People": Juan González & Joseph Torres On the Epic Story of Race & the U.S. Media

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Joseph Torres - Oct. 13 (News Analysis) - which serves democracy best?" González says. "It turns out that in those periods of time when the government has opted for a decentralized or autonomous system, democracy has had a better opportunity to flourish, racial minorities have been able to be heard more often and to establish their own press. In those periods of the nation’s history when policies have fostered centralized news and information, that’s when dissident voices, racial minorities, marginalized groups in society are excluded from the media system."

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Olbermann Loses It At GOP Rep.

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Keith Olbermann - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Keith Olbermann was especially feisty during his "Worst Persons" segment on his Wednesday show, going hard after Bill O'Reilly and even swearing on air. Olbermann...

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Hate crimes are a national problem

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By J. Richard Cohen - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - The security camera footage broadcast by CNN shows a grisly scene: a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, being fatally run over by a pickup truck after he was viciously beaten in a motel parking lot on a Sunday morning in June. Prosecutors say a group of white teens chose the man at random. They say the alleged ringleader, an 18-year-old now charged with murder, laughed about it afterward and boasted in a phone conversation about how he "ran that n----- over."

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Black leaders give 'The Help' a hand in marketing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Sperling - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The chairwoman of the NAACP is among those spreading the word about the DreamWorks film, which focuses on relationships between white Southern women and their maids during the civil rights era. When Roslyn Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, first heard about "The Help," a new film based on a novel about the volatile relationships between Southern white women and their black maids at the dawn of the civil rights movement, she was skeptical.

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Study Shows Growing Number of Ethnic Elders in Financial Crisis

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Were Not Noted. - Aug. 06 (Advocacy) - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—In a dismal week when the most positive economic news for the United States was Friday’s federal data showing anemic employment gains, the plight of ethnic elders looks “even worse than we thought it would be,” according to Henoch D

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Wealth Gap Between Minorities and White Americans Doubles After Housing Crisis, Recession

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 28 (News Report) - A new study of U.S. census data reveals that wealth gaps between whites and minorities in the United States have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tracking them a quarter-century ago. White Americans now have on average 20 times the net worth of African Americans and 18 times that of Latinos. According to the Pew Research Center, the gaps were compounded during the housing bust and the subsequent recession, and essentially wiped out much of the economic progress made by people of color over the past 20 years. We discuss the center’s study with Roderick Harrison, sociologist and demographer, and former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau. “Any hopes or aspirations, particularly based solely on Obama's election, that we had reached some kind of post-racial state, were close to delusional,” says Harrison. “This report is pointing to just how much the inequalities have been exacerbated by the recession and poor economy.”

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Michele Bachmann signs anti-gay pact that says times were better for black kids during slavery

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcom - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA's first African American president."

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Cornel West's criticism of Obama sparks debate among African Americans

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - May. 19 (News Report) - Scholar Cornel West's scathing critique of President Obama's liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.

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A Certificate of Embarrassment

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Apr. 28 (Editorial) - President Obama is finally forced to react to a preposterous political claim about his birth.

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Obama’s birther day

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dana Milbank - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - It was reasonable for the White House to counteract the conspiracy types by releasing the original certificate (Obama long ago released the standard form Hawaii considers to be a legal birth certificate.) Less evident is why Obama felt he needed to lower himself by appearing in the briefing room, escorted by his chief of staff, to defend himself against the birthers.

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Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Minding the Campus - By Mary Grabar - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is not really interested in teaching students to write and communicate clearly. The group’s agenda, clear to me after sampling as many of the meeting’s 500 panels as I could, is devoted to disparaging grammar, logic, reason, evidence and fairness as instruments of white oppression. They believe rules of grammar discriminate against “marginalized” groups and restrict self-expression.

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Pygmies

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Survival International - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Across the forests of central Africa, forest peoples have lived by hunting and gathering for millenia. But in the past few decades their homelands have been devastated by logging, war and encroachment from farmers. With expansion of protected areas in response to these problems, their livelihoods have become increasingly impossible and their strong ties to their forests are under strain. The ‘Pygmy’ peoples of central Africa are traditionally hunter-gatherers living in the rainforests throughout central Africa. The term ‘Pygmy’ has gained negative connotations, but has been reclaimed by some indigenous groups as a term of identity. Primarily though, these communities identify themselves as ‘forest peoples’ due to the fundamental importance of the forest to their culture, livelihood and history. Each is a distinct people, such as the Twa, Aka, Baka and Mbuti living in countries across central Africa, including the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon. Different groups have different languages and hunting traditions. Although each community faces different threats and challenges, racism, logging and conservation are major problems for many, all contributing to serious health problems and violent abuse.

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15 Facts About U.S. Income Inequality That Everyone Should Know

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Maxwell Strachan - Apr. 06 (Research) - It might have taken a near-historic recession for many Americans to notice our country's rapidly rising levels of income inequality, but the gap between rich and poor has finally gone mainstream, with bloggers, economists and policymakers of all stripes spouting theories on why we should or shouldn't care.

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Race Issues Rise for Miami Police

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Don Van Natta Jr. - Mar. 23 (News) - Mr. McNeil was the seventh African-American man to be shot and killed by Miami police officers in eight months. The shootings in this racially polarized city have led to marches on the Police Department’s headquarters and calls for a Justice Department investigation, and the city manager has initiated an investigation into the chief’s record.

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Americans' Worries About Economy, Budget Top Other Issues

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lydia Saad - Mar. 21 (Poll) - Nearly three in four Americans (71%) say they worry about the economy "a great deal," more than worry about 13 other issues Gallup measured in a March 3-6 poll. Nearly two in three (64%) worry a great deal about federal spending and the budget deficit. Americans show the least anxiety about race relations -- the only issue about which the majority is "only a little" or "not at all" concerned.

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Report says too many whites, men leading military

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pauline Jelinek - Mar. 08 (Poll) - The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.

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Marking Davis’s Confederate Inauguration

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Campbell Robertson - Feb. 21 (News) - But even the politics on Saturday were tied up in a larger sense of grievance, a feeling of being marginalized and willfully misunderstood. Expressions of this feeling led to some rather unexpected analogies, like when Kelley Barrow, a teacher from Georgia, declared that people of Confederate heritage “have been forced to go to the back of the bus.”

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