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Monday, August 04, 2008
White America opens its arms to Obama - Is Black America ready for a more perfect 'union'?
The off record (recorded) chatter of Jesse Jackson concerning Barack Obama ”talking down to black people” clearly indicates that the old guard of the black leadership is not quite ready for a black president who refuses to use race as the only leitmotif..
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Monday, June 23, 2008
How the racial sins of the past live on, multiplying suffering
For a very long time, clear disparities between blacks and whites in medical outcomes were dismissed as the fault of African American ignorance, superstition, or bad diets…writes Glen Ford.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Miami’s Urban Beach Week – are blacks targetd by police?
Every year several hundred thousand black youths gather at Miami's South Beach for Urban Beach Week, and each year the local police show them that African Americans are not wanted. By Mel Reeves.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
Sean Bell & Wesley Snipes – victims of the American justice system?
The United States leads the world in putting its citizens behind bars. The nation with just 5 per cent of the world's population has 25 per cent of the world's prisoners.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Commemoration and Revisionism
The commemoration of MLK's assassination 40 years ago stuck to the usual revisionist script, as the dailies and even some black periodicals heralded the occasion by referring to MLK as "The Dreamer."
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Monday, March 03, 2008
U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
Somalia and the United States share an unfortunate commonality - they are the only countries in the world that refuse to sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child because of its ban on sentencing children to die in prison.
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Monday, February 04, 2008
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, the role of prisons in American society
America's prison system, houses some 2.2 million people. Almost half of its prisoners come from the one eighth of this country which is black, writes Bruce Dixon.
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap
Oil has made us billions and fuelled our economic stability, but oil has also become the bane of our existence, writes Philip Emeagwali.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Say my name: Another capital crime against African Americans
In Burkina Faso, West Africa, the Dagara people believe every child comes into this life with a special destiny and in order to ensure that the child fulfils that destiny, the parents select a name that reflects his purpose, writes Lizz Brown
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Unbreakable Unmistakable: Donda West
The demands exerted on a young, male star are different than the pressures felt by a middle-aged, former English professor mother navigating the culturally shallow shoals of Make Believe Land, writes Lizz Brown.
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