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Videoby Jonathan Adams on April 7 2008, 2:37PM
Check out this Colorlines Magazine exclusive video, filmed by Thanu Yakupitiyage, that tells more of the story behind the green economy. Organizations like Sustainable South Bronx are already working in their community to provide jobs for people of color…
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by Jonathan Adams on April 5 2008, 8:33AM
We’re in Memphis, a day after the march commemorating MLK, and the work continues. The Dream Reborn conference is bursting with possibilities. More than seeing old faces, this conference has lots of people very curious. Many came just to, “see…
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Liveblogging at the Dream Reborn Conference
by Jonathan Adams on April 5 2008, 7:41AM
We’re in Memphis today with over 1000 people to celebrate Martin Luther King’s life and to discuss environmental solutions that will bring jobs, justice, wealth, and health to communities of color. Check out the Dream Reborn video….
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On the 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Assassination
by Jonathan Adams on April 4 2008, 8:38AM
The Other Side of the Mountaintop “Some scholars and former King associates are using the occasion to zero in on the two issues — war and poverty — that were consuming him at the time of his death.” Washington…
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The 22nd Erase Racism Carnival
by Jonathan Adams on April 2 2008, 7:02AM
Racewire contributor, jhing’s post on the system’s exploitation of immigrants, is featured in this month’s Erase Racism Carnival on Double Consciousness. Check out the other great posts here….
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by Jonathan Adams on March 31 2008, 2:03PM
Benson Lee Racewire contributor jchang calls the new film, “an incredible celebration of hip-hop’s global impact and a bracing shot of visual adrenalin.” Originally posted on angry asian man, here’s an interview with “Planet B-Boy” director, Benson Lee: The…
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New Report on Black Workers and Unions; NYC Supports Child Citizen Protection Act
by Jonathan Adams on March 31 2008, 11:16AM
Honoring Dr. King’s Commitment to Unions—40th Anniversary of Assassination in Memphis while Supporting Strike(pdf) Forty years ago this week—on April 4, 1968—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, while he was in Memphis supporting the unionization of African American sanitation…
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MVL: A Young Immigrant Tells His Story
by Jonathan Adams on March 31 2008, 9:49AM
Originally posted on Movement Vision Lab, Juan tells his undocumented experience….
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Spitzer’s Sex Scandal and Hip Hop Hipocrisy
by Jonathan Adams on March 28 2008, 11:54AM
H/T Racialicious Jay Smooth calls out hip hop heads who are worried that Ashely Dupre, the sex worker caught up with Eliot Spitzer’s scandal, will devalue hip hop if she records an album….
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Blacks Against Immigrants? Don’t Believe the Conservative Hype
by Jonathan Adams on March 27 2008, 8:38AM
Found on DMI By Mark Winston Griffith & Andrea Batista Schlesinger There’s a corrosive idea currently being spread by the conservative right. Designed to enlist African Americans in a race battle against immigrants by intentionally exploiting current economic anxieties, The…
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Scalia Ignores Innocently Incarcerated
by Jonathan Adams on March 25 2008, 10:21AM
Tip to Too Sense A New York Times article, today, reports that Justice Antonin Scalia, in assessing the U.S. criminal justice system, is satisfied knowing that innocent people are convicted. Scalia writes, “one cannot have a system of criminal punishment…
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Pat Buchanan: Black People Should Be Grateful
by Jonathan Adams on March 24 2008, 12:34PM
As the coverage continues after Barack Obama’s speech on race, Pat Buchanan, the cantankerous conservative, writes in his syndicated column, “A Brief for Whitey,” that “White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.” He continues, First, America…
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by Jonathan Adams on March 24 2008, 11:34AM
Lot of people are talking about the latest issue of Vogue magazine with Lebron James andn Gisele Bundchen on the cover. Because Vogue’s history as the world’s premier fashion magazine has not included many people of color on the…
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Detained or Deployed- Immigrants are Dying
by Jonathan Adams on March 20 2008, 10:33AM
Tip to ImmigrationProf Blog Here are some disturbing stories about our government’s treatment of immigrants of color. Whether imprisoned or in the army, immigrants are cruelly neglected by our system and it’s killing them. One about Francisco Castaneda, an immigrant…
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Supreme Court Plans to Address Voting Rights, Asylum
by Jonathan Adams on March 17 2008, 1:06PM
Found on SCOTUSBlog The Court will review eight new cases. One of the cases stems from a voting rights dispute in North Carolina and, “whether federal voting rights law allows a racial minority group that has less than 50 percent…
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Spitzer Resigns, New York Will Have a Black Governor
by Jonathan Adams on March 11 2008, 12:02PM
Editor’s note: Sorry about the delay. We will have limited internet access for the rest of the week, and we may be slow to post. After news of Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in a prostitution ring and his subsequent resignation rocked…
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Miss. Black Unions Incorporate Immigrant Rights
by Jonathan Adams on March 10 2008, 2:52PM
From American Prospect Mississippi’s Black labor groups are organizing alongside the state’s growing immigrant population to fight for driver’s licenses for all residents. Throughout the 1990s more immigrants arrived looking for work. Some guest workers overstayed their visas, while husbands…
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Watching Cartoon Network’s “Chop Socky Chooks”
by Jonathan Adams on March 5 2008, 10:54AM
Found on angry asian man If you couldn’t figure it out, the show is about a trio of kung fu kickin’ chickens—Chick P, KO Joe and Chuckie Chan, “undercover heroes protecting the citizens of Wasabi World, a city-sized shopping…
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Race Riots Reexamined: Kerner Report 40 Years Later
by Jonathan Adams on March 4 2008, 2:34PM
The Kerner Report was released on February 29, 1968, and this report was commissioned by Lyndon B. Johnson who formed a committee to research race relations after a deadly series of summer race riots all over the country. Angering Lyndon…
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From the Margins - A Look at the Intersection of Race, Gender & Sexuality
by Jonathan Adams on March 4 2008, 1:08PM
Panel Discussion: From the Margins - A Look at the Intersection of Race, Gender & Sexuality Date and Time: March 6, 2008 / 7:00 Eastern Drawing from the life and work of individuals such as Bayard Rustin and Huey…
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