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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about Alberto Gonzales. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about The Neutrality Act of 1935.

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GUESTS: Sara K Gould, President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Almetra Franklin, CEO of St. Mary’s Community Action Agency, Louisiana Housing Alliance

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast, the devastation left in its wake ignited discussions on race and even class in the United States. However, even as women were disproportionately affected by …

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GUEST:Sumaiya Islam, Community Organizer with South Asian Network

Earlier this week, the military-backed government of Bangladesh lifted an overnight curfew that had been imposed on six main cities. The curfew was the government’s response to demonstrations that began on August 20th at Dhaka University by students demanding the removal of army posts on college campuses. The …

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GUESTS: Kenia, Luke, GLASS, Dianne Cary, co-founder of Live Arts Group

While easier then it was in the past, growing up queer or transgender in Los Angeles is still difficult. Queer and trans youth, according to US Department of Health Statistics are five times more likely to miss school because of feeling unsafe, two times as likely …

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… about Thurgood Marshall.

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GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, author of “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop” and Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Georgetown University

The topic of hip hop as a means of social and political expression is something we have covered often on Uprising. Ever since it’s inception in the 1970s in New York’s West Bronx, Hip …

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GUESTS: Jeffrey Buchanan, Communications Officer for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and Co-author of the report “Where did the Katrina money go?” Darryl Malek-Wiley, Environmental Justice Organizer with Sierra Club

On the eve of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, organizers and residents of New Orleans are demanding rights for displaced residents. A two-day, “Bring Our …

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GUEST: Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, Coordinator of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona

Nearly 200 hundred bodies have been recovered this year on the Arizona-Mexico border according to Tuscon based human rights group, Derechos Humanos. This most recent figure brings the total number of recorded deaths on the border to 5,000 since the …

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GUEST: Bob Gnaizda, Greenlining instutite

Consumer advocates have called for a moratorium on home foreclosures, as they warn that California will face many more next year. The reason cited for the projected increase of foreclosures is that homeowners are expected to be hit with payment increases brought on by subprime loans and risky mortgages. The call for …

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