Friday Civil Rights activist Cornel West told Democracy Now!‘s Juan Gonzalez that, like President Bush before him, President Obama’s policies discriminate against African-Americans. West said the President’s neglect of the poor and of poverty program ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:48PM
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"The Simpsons" took its latest dig at Fox News on Sunday's episode, inventing a new logo for the channel: "Not Racist, But #1 With Racists."
Granted, it's hardly the first time the cartoon has jabbed at its sister channel ("The Simpsons" is, o ...
Posted Monday, November 22nd 2010 at 4:38PM
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VIRGINIA--While working on "The 100 Best African–American Poems" (Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2010; $22.99), award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat.
"Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s," says Giovanni, a University D ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:09PM
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (FinalCall.com) - The opulent and historic Coronado Theater in downtown Rockford was the venue for a nearly two-hour message delivered by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan titled, “The Joy of Freedom is Justice.”
It was the sec ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 3:06PM
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HEALTH.com--While one of the singular achievements of American medicine in recent years has been to reduce the largely preventable incidence of cervical cancer, 13,000 women nevertheless will come down with it this year mainly because they have not h ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 4:21PM
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The following is a follow-up to a previous blog "SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP SEXUALLY INVASIVE AIRPORT BODY SCANS" published here on November 18, 2010.
SAN DIEGO--At the San Diego International Airport on Saturday, about one-fifth of the travelers ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 3:59PM
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9-0-# on your telephone
I dialed '0' to check this out, and the operator confirmed that this was correct, so please pass it on.. (l also checked out snopes.com and truthorfiction.com This is true, and also applies to cell phones!)
I received a ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 7:10PM
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Peace To All:
Yesterday morning I was at a school board meeting and one of the staff members mentioned something that caused me to think on the lessons we teach our children, both directly and indirectly.
Perhaps we can share some of the valua ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 5:48PM
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SYNDEY--A policeman accused of trying to pull off a Muslim woman's headdress has told a Sydney court he isn't a racist.
Senior Constable Paul Fogarty pulled over Carnita Matthews, 45, on June 8 this year at Woodbine in Sydney's southwest.
She l ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 2:04PM
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From WorldSocialist.com
November 17, 2010
Some 15 percent of US households, 17.4 million families or about 50 million people, were too poor to buy adequate food last year, according to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Mo ...
Posted Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 3:01PM
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NEW ORLEANS--India-born Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has criticised US President Barack Obama for being not connected to ground realities in his latest book.
In his book titled 'Leadership in Crisis' which is all set to hit the stands toda ...
Posted Monday, November 15th 2010 at 8:20PM
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Knowle, UK--A woman told two young Asian children wearing headscarves they were "dumb people from dumb Islam" before swearing at them at a Bristol shopping centre.
Lisa Jarvis made fun of the youngsters, aged nine and 12, in an unprovoked outburst ...
Posted Monday, November 15th 2010 at 7:24PM
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HARLEM--A beloved Harlem principal was yanked from her post after she had a lesbian romance with an assistant principal - then gave her a lousy review, investigators said.
Crystal Simmons, founding principal of the Academy for Social Action, turne ...
Posted Sunday, November 14th 2010 at 4:13PM
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From The Huffington Post
November 13, 2010
The mid-term elections in the US don’t seem to have taught the present Administration anything. For any unbiased observer, it is obvious that the Democratic defeat at the elections and the failure of wha ...
Posted Sunday, November 14th 2010 at 4:00PM
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NOTE FROM SIEBRA:
The following text contains excerpts from the book “A Torchlight for America,” written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and published in June 1993. To purchase a copy of the book or to order additional materials go to www. ...
Posted Sunday, November 14th 2010 at 3:55PM
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A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept staring at him.
She finally overtook him at the checkout, And she turned to him and said, "I hope I haven't made ...
Posted Saturday, November 13th 2010 at 6:19PM
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A bartender has sued a popular Philadelphia restaurant and bar where he works, claiming it discouraged nonwhite customers from visiting.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by part-time bartender and lawyer Michael Bolden claims ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 1:41PM
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From The Guardian.com
November 14, 2010
The hidden agenda behind the humanitarian aid programs and interventions carried out by the United States in troubled parts of the world has been insightfully exposed by Dr Paul Craig Roberts:
”Most Ame ...
Posted Friday, November 12th 2010 at 1:13PM
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STAMFORD -- Police are seeking information about who left a swastika on a stop sign and wrote a derogatory term for blacks on the street at an intersection near the home of Gov.-elect Dan Malloy.
It's unclear when the offensive graffiti was left a ...
Posted Thursday, November 11th 2010 at 6:08PM
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Posted Wednesday, November 10th 2010 at 11:48AM
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CANADA--A Calgary anti-racism activist claims white supremacists forced their way into his home overnight and tried to kill him.
Jason Devine of Anti-Racism Action Calgary and a friend were viciously beaten early Monday by a group of men armed wi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 9th 2010 at 3:43PM
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