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The war in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone on Tuesday. A roadside bomb in Kabul brought the toll of American dead to over 1,000. After taking seven years to reach 500 deaths, the war claimed the second 500 American lives in less than two years. Now, award-winning film maker Laura Poitras, has made a new documentary, The …

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Homeboy Industries, the acclaimed institution that has worked to transform the lives of gang members in East Los Angeles for more than two decades, was forced into massive layoffs last week. The organization founded by Boyle Heights Jesuit Priest Father Gregory Boyle to combat gang violence through job placement has fallen short of maintaining its operating …

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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 Arizona.

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The White Night Riots

Back in the day on May 21st, 1979 demonstrators took to the streets of San Francisco in what would be known as the White Night riots. The raucous events were spurred in part by a verdict returned in the controversial trial of Daniel James White. The former member of the San Francisco Board …

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On Sunday May 9th, the ground-breaking African American actress and singer Lena Horne died at the age of 92. Known for paving the way for blacks in film, she was among the first African Americans to sign a long-term contract with a major studio, MGM. Lena Horne was signed up as a member of the NAACP as a toddler by her fierce and active …

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A new study published in the journal Pediatrics, found that children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD, are found to have higher levels of pesticides in their system. The findings were called “interesting and provocative” by a UC Berkeley epidemiologist and confirm the suspicions of environmentalists and public health experts, According to the study, the levels of chemicals found in the urine …

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Over the weekend, famed linguist and professor, Noam Chomsky was refused a day permit to enter the West Bank from Jordan to make a scheduled speech at Bir Zeit University in Palestine. After questioning the 81 year-old linguist for several hours, Israeli ministry officials deemed Chomsky a security threat.

The MIT professor is no stranger to controversy. His criticism of domestic and foreign …

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Even before last week’s announcement of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, a whisper campaign had been started in speculating her sexual orientation. A former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer had written in a CBS news blog last month that Obama’s then probable selection of the former Harvard Law School …

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A pipe bomb was detonated outside Jacksonville’s Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers last Monday. No worshippers were harmed. A surveillance video shows a middle aged man carrying a can of gasoline and the pipe bomb. Local and state police and the FBI are investigating allegations that ACT! for America, an anti-Islam hate group that has been …

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After failing to shut off the oil gush from the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, British oil giant BP, has now installed a small tube into the main burst pipe and claims to be siphoning off 1000 barrels a day. An official estimate of 5000 barrels of oil leaking a day from the exploded …

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