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Detroit: The forgotten center of crisis and hope

Detroit: The forgotten center of crisis and hope
By Austin C. McCoy, Many Americans tend to forget that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first articulated passages from his famed “I Have a Dream” speech in Detroit a few months earlier than the one he performed at the March on Washington. Dr. King addressed a crowd of 125,000 demonstrators after leading...
September 1st, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Another false ending: Contracting out the Iraq occupation

Another false ending: Contracting out the Iraq occupation
Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. But,...
September 1st, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Should social media sites like collect information about users’ race and ethnicity?

Should social media sites like collect information about users’ race and ethnicity?
So, apparently Facebook has figured out a way to predict user race/ethnicity. Which raises the question: Is this a good or bad thing? There’s a school of thought that the best strategy for dealing with the problem of racism is to stop paying attention to race.  The argument is basically that by...
September 1st, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

God made me do it

God made me do it
Originally published on Center for American Progress blog Race and Beyond, So now we know what the Tea Party stands for and who stands behind it. Until this past weekend, the various factions of what’s collectively known as the Tea Party struggled to define who they are and what they represent....
August 31st, 2010 | Featured, Glenn Beck, Talk About Race | Read More

Direct talks: Five myths

Direct talks: Five myths
Originally published on the Mosaic Blog Direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis are scheduled to commence in Washington on September 2, a decade after the last real final-status talks, and nearly two years after the last direct talks. Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu will come face to face...
August 30th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Something positive is happening in race relations west of the Missouri River in South Dakota

Something positive is happening in race relations west of the Missouri River in South Dakota
It was a scorching hot day at this year’s Central States Fair until dark clouds drifted slowly over the Black Hills and brought the temperatures down. It was a special day for Native Americans because a man named Roon Jeffries and his assistant, Dixie Holy Eagle, took the challenge of the Year of Unity...
August 30th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream
Rewriting history is one of the many offenses that political conservatives are constantly accusing liberals of committing.  But no one is guiltier of this transgression than conservatives themselves, who have a particular fondness for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement, especially their...
August 27th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Glenn Beck, US | Read More

A fast year: Lessons from the Indian Health System

A fast year: Lessons from the Indian Health System
A year goes by fast. Way too fast. Thirteen months ago I plunged into my “year-long” exploration of the Indian health system. It’s been fascinating because there has so much activity: Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and included with that bill the permanent authorization...
August 26th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured | Read More

Four reasons why Americans should oppose Zionism

Four reasons why Americans should oppose Zionism
By Steven Salaita Originally published on the Foreign Policy Journal Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 400 Palestinian children. In May, 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence...
August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

America’s forgotten founders

America’s forgotten founders
No one can deny the starring role that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other leading lights played in America’s constitutional founding. They launched history’s greatest project in democracy and will forever be remembered for setting alight the path to liberty. So...
August 24th, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More

North Carolina inmates allege bias, challenge death sentences

North Carolina inmates allege bias, challenge death sentences
By Elizabeth Renter The Racial Justice Act, only the second of its kind in the United States, has given inmates sentenced to death in North Carolina a potential route to relief. As of today, 114 death row inmates there have filed motions asserting their sentences were tainted by racial bias. While the...
August 23rd, 2010 | Criminal Justice, Featured | Read More

Obama’s “mongrel” statement: A manifestation of strategy and indifference

Obama’s “mongrel” statement: A manifestation of strategy and indifference
In the last few weeks much discussion regarding a unique matter involving race has surfaced within the African-American community. Such is the case, as President Barack Obama’s appearance on the daytime talk show, “The View”, in which he classified African Americans as a “mongrel people”...
August 23rd, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More

Our justice system requires us to punish wrongdoers, what if there were a better way?

Our justice system requires us to punish wrongdoers, what if there were a better way?
Image by PPCC Antifa via Flickr The banner says “No justice. No Peace.” We think we know what it means — that we who want justice are willing to fight for it. The words have a deeper meaning, of course. They are intended to remind us that that it is an impossibility to have a...
August 19th, 2010 | Criminal Justice, Featured | Read More

“Government-run” no longer defines the Indian health system

“Government-run” no longer defines the Indian health system
A single phrase is often used to define the Indian health system: “Government-run.” Add those two words to any discussion about health care or reform and most people reach an immediate conclusion about the merits of the agency. Now it is time for the phrase to disappear because it no longer accurately...
August 17th, 2010 | American Indians, Health, Politics, US | Read More
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