Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective (Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations, Volume 13)
Carbon Caps Task Force (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Please click on image to move to Flickr site and ENLARGE view of Claire Detels on October 20, 2009
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare and Otherworldly African American Gospel, 1944-2007 (Tompkins Square) Almost 4 hours of super-compelling, undiluted, stripped-down gospel on 3 discs! The majority of this music has never been reissued on CD, or in any other form (most tracks were originally released on regional independent labels). Most post-WWII compilations of African-American gospel music naturally concentrate...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advertising Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Children's Bureau and AdoptUsKids, announced today the launch of a campaign designed to encourage the adoption of African American children from foster care.
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
BRIEFING TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT HOUSING CRISIS ON LATINO AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN SAN FRANCISCO AND NATIONWIDE Hosted by: Honorable Supervisors Avalos, Campos and Maxwell, the Mayor’s Office of Housing, CARECEN, Dolores Street Community Services, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center,...
Top Model Barbie Toys (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
He's African American? Really? We didn't notice. Huh. Well, his jacket was a pain to get on and off. He wasn't much of a dancer either. Maybe he was shy. We'll never know if he would have come out of his shell though, because unfortunately, the dog ate him. Such is the life of the Ken doll. I'm sure he died defending the castle. Cheap Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper: Ken as King Dominick and...
Michael Homan (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Louisiana politicians, for good reason, have been rushing to call for the ousting of Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell in Tangipahoa Parish. Bardwell made national headlines by refusing to marry a white woman to a black man earlier this month because he believes that most interracial marriages end in divorce. The best part is when he stated "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in...
Crushed by Inertia (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated...
Bay Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Mayoral forum at Woodson Museum
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the third consecutive year, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) honored African American entrepreneurs with the NBMBAA/Wells Fargo Entrepreneur Excellence Award. This year’s winners are Willie Davis Jr., owner of Just Bucket Excavating, Inc., general excavation contractors that perform commercial, institutional,...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Either Richard Wolffe is blatantly shilling for the liberal/progressive agenda in the United States or he really is incredibly cynical about how the Republican Party picks its leader. Wolffe, appearing on MSNBC's Oct. 5 "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," gave his thoughts on the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. Wolffe, a MSNBC regular and former Newsweek columnist,...
Enclave (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
In a controversial post title this morning the SouthComm blog aggregator at the Post Politics blog referred to the African American State House District 58 challenger to Rep. Mary Pruitt, Steven Turner, as "Jason Powell in Blackface." Powell was the white challenger who ran against Pruitt in 2006. District 58 includes the North End neighborhoods (Salemtown, Germantown, etc), Downtown, portions...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release dated September 22, 2009 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: INDIANAPOLIS TO HOST 16TH ANNUAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE Mental Health for Our Veterans, Their Families and Communities Takes Highest Priority The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) will host...
Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
I talked about this issue and why despite these remarks I really appreciate the Bishop of Memphis. See A Response to the Catholic Bishop Of Memphis on Racism and Obama It appears that the full transcript of the Bishops words are available via Whispers . See "Racism," Cont'd. Let me hit this part: "When President Obama was inaugurated four buses full of African Americans Catholics drove...
TangleBones (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Microsoft airbrushed out an African American and replaced him with a white guy to appeal to Polish racists: http://bit.ly/mTOn4
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