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InteractiveSujatha Jesudason on Saying No to Medical Racial Profiling [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on March 3 2009, 4:10AM
Generations Ahead’s Sujatha Jesudason pushes back against the bad science that ties bogus racial genetics to health issues, and breaks down how this framework overlooks real environmental and health care access inequities. Sujatha Jesudason is the author of the…
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Hey RaceWire Fans — Update Your RSS Feeds plz
by Channing Kennedy on February 24 2009, 2:01PM
As you’ll notice in the next couple of weeks, RaceWire and its sister sites at ColorLines and Applied Research Center are getting a facelift. One of the first wrinkles to be smoothed out is our RSS feed; we’ve finally…
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[VIDEO] Rick Santelli on victims of foreclosure: ‘Losers’ who engaged in ‘bad behavior’
by Channing Kennedy on February 19 2009, 2:38PM
In case your brain has been working too well lately, here’s CNBC’s Rick Santelli, laying it down on Obama’s proposed foreclosure rescue plan. To wit: “The government is promoting bad behavior … How about this, president and new administration?…
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Rinku Sen on the Huffington Post
by Channing Kennedy on February 19 2009, 10:27AM
Head on over to HuffPo to read ARC executive director Rinku Sen’s new blog post on the media’s sensationalist spinning of Eric Holder’s speech on race. Rinku Sen, “It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right”…
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[VIDEO] Eric Holder speaks on systemic racism; media pulls ‘a nation of cowards’ line
by Channing Kennedy on February 18 2009, 2:08PM
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by Channing Kennedy on February 17 2009, 11:38AM
Ian Kim of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights calls for advocacy groups to join forces, to ensure that the stimulus money gets put into green-collar jobs initiatives at all levels of government, to strengthen our most vulnerable…
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[VIDEO] Racial Justice and the Employee Free Choice Act: Richard Trumka Interview pt. 2
by Channing Kennedy on February 10 2009, 9:51AM
In the second installment of Tammy Johnson’s interview with AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka, Mr. Trumka outlines the Employee Free Choice Act and its potential to bring equity to communities of color. Visit FreeChoiceAct.org to learn about and endorse the…
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Jesse Lee Peterson “shocks” Hannity [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on February 4 2009, 2:02PM
It’s common knowledge that if a Black commentator is on Fox News, he or she is there to, oh let’s say “raise an issue” about the Black community. And by “raise an issue,” we of course mean “say something…
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Unions for Racial Justice: Interview with AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka
by Channing Kennedy on January 29 2009, 12:04PM
Not long after Obama took office, ARC’s Tammy Johnson spoke with the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka about his rousing speech to the United Steelworkers Union, calling for the labor movement to fully embrace Barack Obama. Visit FreeChoiceAct.org to learn about…
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Inaugurating a New American Narrative [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on January 22 2009, 2:11PM
Washington DC, New York City, Chicago, Oakland — The first Black Presidency, the end of a failed Administration, and a nation in crisis sees an huge outpouring of optimism and common purpose on Inauguration Day. In this video, Colorlines…
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Inaugural Reflections from the Streets of DC [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on January 21 2009, 1:35PM
Over a million people filled the mall in the nation’s capitol for this historic inauguration. Colorlines cameras were on the streets to ask people why they came to DC and what are their hopes for the next four years….
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King Day in SF “Youth Speaks” of a New Dream to Overflow Crowd [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on January 21 2009, 10:12AM
San Francisco — Many of the Bay Area’s leading youth spoken word artists took to the stage on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to illuminate the meaning of his life work in the light of this new moment….
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Oakland residents react to the fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant
by Channing Kennedy on January 9 2009, 10:55AM
Oakland residents express their dissatisfaction, both at the failure of the BART police authority to reprimand the officer in any way, and at the media’s one-sided coverage of the following protests….
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