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  • Expat Sees Return of Scary Times
    Monday, August 30, 2010 - 09:35

    Victor Grossman, an expatriate American journalist now in his 80’s and living in Berlin, sees ominous parallels between America’s anti-Communist outrages during the 1950’s and the conservative ‘Blame-The-Other’ assaults rampant today in America, and in many European countries, including Germany...

  • The Lady Who Cried 'Nigger'
    Friday, August 20, 2010 - 10:47

    So, psycho-babble specialist Dr. Laura Schlessinger spins her shamed retreat from nationally syndicated conservative talk radio with claims that she’s collateral damage in America’s N-word War.

    Schlessinger sparked ire in some circles recently when she used the word “nigger” eleven times...

  • Weed Weirdness: Pot Legalization Measure Creates Strange Alliances in California
    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 00:53

    San Francisco – Two friends debated the merits of California’s pending referendum on pot legalization as they smoked marijuana through a hi-tech electric pipe while sitting inside a swank house where floor-to-ceiling windows artistically framed the glittering night skyline of this city known for...

  • Government Racism: A Case More Outrageous than Sherrod's Firing
    Friday, July 30, 2010 - 10:13

    The telephone at the DC area home of Marsha Coleman-Adebayo began ringing non-stop after the story broke recently about the hasty firing of U.S. Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod on false charges of being a racist.

    Outraged callers wanted not just to express sympathy over...

  • Philly Knows Better: Republican Scam Machine Again Tries to Smear Obama and Black Activists as Racists
    Monday, July 26, 2010 - 09:39

    Yet another Republican attack charging “reverse racism” is in play, this one datelined Philadelphia.

    The usual suspects – right-wing operatives, conservative media commentators and GOP Congressmen – are portraying two members of the New Black Panther Party, including of one carrying a...

  • White On Top: Tea Party and News Media Aren't All That Different
    Monday, July 19, 2010 - 08:43

    Credit the recent NAACP resolution calling out racism within the Tea Party with producing at least one significant result – a sudden and dramatic increase in the number of black faces appearing in mainstream news programs as the media cover the latest ‘controversy’ triggered by America’s oldest...

  • South Africa: The Ugly Underside of World Cup Soccer Mania
    Monday, July 12, 2010 - 09:57

    Soweto, South Africa – Less than seven miles from the carefully crafted glitter of Soccer City, the host complex for the World Cup, two legendary South African football players told fascinating often fearsome stories that powerful people want suppressed.

    Two days before the recent World...

  • George Washington's Slaves Slept Here: History of the Philly White House in B&W, or Just White?
    Friday, July 2, 2010 - 09:50

    Revered residence or house of horrors?

    Intense controversy surrounds the President’s House project now under construction on America’s historic Independence Mall in downtown Philadelphia, Pa.

    The multi-million dollar project located outside the iconic Liberty Bell, only a few steps...

  • Racism in the Courts: Six Tries, Multiple Errors
    Friday, June 25, 2010 - 10:17

    After spending more than ten years in jail without a formal sentence, Curtis Flowers now can point to another unenviable distinction – he’s the first person in U.S. history subjected to six murder trials for the same crime.

    Two of the five previous trials of this Mississippi man charged...

  • Israeli Raid Coverage: American Media Fail Again
    Monday, June 14, 2010 - 16:21

    An American art student loses an eye when struck in the face by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel breaking up, in the occupied West Bank, a demonstration which itself is a protest against the deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza flotilla.

    No, you didn’t...

  • Federal Authorities Paid Journalists To Sabotage Trial
    Friday, June 4, 2010 - 10:04

    Is it coincidence or conspiracy?

    Supporters of five Cuban intelligence agents now serving lengthy sentences in US federal prison following controversial espionage convictions, say federal government documents detailing payments made by a US government-run anti-Castro propaganda operation...

  • Texas Ed Board Curriculum Decision: Don't Know Much About History...
    Friday, May 28, 2010 - 09:09

    Let's give credit where credit is due.

    The Texas Board of Education, in a press release announcing its revision of the public school history curriculum, states that those revisions include explaining “instances of institutional racism in American society.”

    So are critics reacting...

  • For Biased Judges Even White Doesn't Make Right
    Friday, May 21, 2010 - 09:10

    On the second anniversary of their winning a historic $10-million verdict – the largest ever for a discrimination lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department – three men staged a protest outside the city’s federal court house criticizing an unusual roadblock keeping them from receiving...

  • May 13, 1985: Philly Bombs Literally!
    Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 22:34

    Philadelphia loves to brag about it’s ‘Firsts,’ citing such notable things as the nation’s first capital (1774), America’s first zoo (1874) and the birthplace of the world’s first digital computer ENIAC (1946).

    There is one ‘First’ that will never appear in slick tourist handouts from the...

  • Prejudice Pervades Arizona's Immigration Crackdown
    Friday, May 7, 2010 - 23:52

    Arizona in 2010 is the new Alabama.

    Equating anti-Mexican sentiment in Arizona today with segregationist sentiment in Alabama during 1960s-era civil rights struggles is becoming commonplace in the wake of recently adopted Arizona legislation authorizing police to crack down on illegal...



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