New Article: Supporters Want Occupy Movement to Address Racial Issues
Check out the new article. Supporters Want Occupy Movement to Address Racial Issues.
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New Article: Focus East Portland: City Pushes Neighborhood-Sized Projects
Check out my new piece on Richard Heinberg’s speech as a part of the East Portland Area Project. Focus East Portland: City Pushes Neighborhood-Sized Projects.
Unreleased: Assassination and We Cheered
Author’s note: I originally wrote this following the killing of Osama bin Laden. Since, we’ve seen the assassinations of many others, including Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16 year old son and most recently Muammar Gaddafi. I find it interesting that so many in the US cheered on the images of Gaddafi’s bloody corpse not even a …
Recap of the Teaching with Purpose Conference 2011
Check out my recap of the Teaching with Purpose Conference 2011. If you’re in the Portland area, and an educator, parent, community member or simply a person, try and attend next year. Don’t miss out on the innovations that could revolutionize education. Education Expert Augusta Mann: Black Students Need the Five R’s.
An Open Letter to B-Murder
Dear President Obama, I am concerned that your disregard for civil liberties and due process is putting US citizens in danger. Yesterday you finally succeeded in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen. You authorized his assassination without charges or concrete evidence. Although al-Awlaki made incendiary Youtube videos and had contact with people who …
Check Out Al Jazeera’s Drugs Central
Al Jazeera English has a new page called “Drugs Central”. It’s one of the most comprehensive pages on the drug war and its effects in Latin America, as far as international mass media is concerned. Here is a sampling of some of the content: “Mexico Drug War in Figures” “Who Consumes Mexico’s Drugs” “A drug …
The Guardian Reports Black Brits Worse off than 1985
Check out this story on The Guardian discussing how the condition for black Britons is worse than it was in 1985. Since the beginning of the London riots, which started after a black man named Mark Duggan (who the police claimed shot first but ballistic tests later found the bullet he supposedly fired was police …
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Don Cheadle’s History Lesson and Connection to Native Americans
Check out this article from The Root on Don Cheadle’s connection to Native Americans. The Root editor-in-chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. details the history of Native Americans owning slaves, the Dawes Commission and the few blacks that were able to get the promised 40 acres, not from white slave owners but Native Americans. Here’s an …
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HuffPo Article on Black Women’s Hair
Check out this article on the Huffington Post on black women’s hair and the stigma towards natural hair. I believe women should be free to wear their hair however they want first and foremost. However, when society says that a women’s natural hair is unacceptable, then the choice has already been made. White women are …
Mexico’s First Black President. Category: Press Releases from The Berkeley Daily Planet
Mexico’s First Black President. Category: Press Releases from The Berkeley Daily Planet. Check out this history lesson on Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black President. He was a war hero who helped expel Spanish rule and abolished slavery. Elected in 1829, he puts US racial history to shame because not just was he historically significant, as …
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