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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Katrina and Police Violence.
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Ban on Racial Segregation in Schools Upheld
Back in the day on March 5th, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the ban of racial segregation in state schools, colleges, and universities. The 1954 ruling in the famed Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case had been defied by the University of North Carolina when …
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Mar
05
2010
“I ask no favors for my sex …. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.” — Sarah Moore Grimké …
Mar
04
2010
We’ll bring you a report back from the “Day of Unity for Public Education” as students and others across the nation went on strike. Plus, violence in the Philippines raises fears of martial law. Plus, an update on reproductive rights in Utah, Nebraska, and the Health care reform bill. …
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A new report by a group of prominent economists this week warned that banks are still engaged in high-risk investing activity that is making another, potentially bigger financial crisis not only likely, but inevitable. The group includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance, plus Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel to oversee …
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Mar
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2010
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A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center has confirmed fears of a growing white American nationalist movement with violent tendancies. Rage on the Right, reveals that extremist, so-called patriot groups grew 244 percent since 2009. Additionally the number of armed militias in the US nearly tripled in number from 44 in 2008 to 127 in 2009. …
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On Monday the Brooklyn, New York district attorney stated that no criminal acts were committed by ACORN employees who were secretly filmed giving financial advice to a pair of right-wing activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. This manufactured controversy fueled right-wing criticism of community organizing in the past 2 years at the same time that the …
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The Explosion of La Coubre
Back in the day on March 4th, 1960, the French steamboat, La Coubre exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. The 4,310-ton vessel had been carrying Belgian grenades and munitions. As it was being unloaded at the port, the first blast killed numerous dock workers sending people into panic. Half an hour later, …
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Mar
04
2010
Thousands of people across the US are going on strike today to defend public education. Find out about local events near you at www.defendeducation.org. Tune into Uprising on Friday March 5th for a report-back from the Pershing Square rally in Downtown LA. …
Mar
04
2010
“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other.” – Eduardo Galeano …
