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VideoAnother Take on the Holder Situation
by Guest Columnist on February 23 2009, 2:48PM
by Andrew Grant-Thomas A lot has already been written about Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent race speech. The media coverage has invariably led with his suggestion that “in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too…
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Quirky Black Girls on Obama’s Win and Empire
by Jonathan Adams on November 13 2008, 11:07AM
Check out Quirky Black Girls. Here are some excerpts of their discussion on Barack Obama’s win. Moya says I wonder how our Indigenous brothers and sisters feel? Is it enthusiasm for the fact that a person of color has reached…
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Conference Call on Race, Implicit Bias, and the Election
by Terry Keleher on November 3 2008, 8:57AM
UPDATE: Listen to Thursday’s conference call on Race in the Race. Like the “Willie Horton” ad of twenty years ago, the most effective messages that play on racism do it in ways that we mostly do not notice. But it…
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Post-meltdown, post-election, what’s ahead for racial justice in ‘09?
by Jonathan Adams on October 21 2008, 7:08AM
Racewire has been under the weather, but back to our regularly scheduled posting. Yesterday, over one hundred racial justice advocates participated in a conference call during which Rinku Sen,Applied Research Center (ARC) Executive Director, Adrienne Maree Brown, The Ruckus…
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Bailout Brainstorm: What Are Our Ideas?
by Jonathan Adams on September 24 2008, 1:11PM
The Bush Administration is rushing for Congress accept this bailout plan, Democrats are asking for checks on Secretary of Treasury Paulson, and now, John McCain is ready to put his campaign on hold and postpone the debate to focus on…
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Community Organizing Still Has Room to Grow
by Guest Columnist on September 12 2008, 8:49AM
Originally posted on Movement Vision Lab By Charlene Sinclair There is no question as to whether community organizers have real accomplishments and responsibilities. The question though should be whether community organizing, as it is currently practiced, is structured to achieve…
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Much Ado About “Stuff White People Like”
by Guest Columnist on February 29 2008, 9:33AM
by Alex Jung When a friend showed me the blog “Stuff White People Like” the first thing I thought to myself was — Why didn’t I think of that? Because, as someone who thinks of himself as relatively “conscious,” the…
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A Conversation with Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist
by Megan Izen on October 18 2007, 1:44PM
In this week’s news, we saw conflict in Eritrea building , two years of Sudan’s peace accord compromised and an imminent Turkish invasion of Iraq . While turmoil in the world persists, I sat down with Liberian peace activist Leymah…
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by Jonathan Adams on September 11 2007, 12:39PM
Today, NYT reminds us: For the first time in six years, Sept. 11 fell on a Tuesday, the same day the planes flew into the buildings and changed everything. After 9/11, there were a lot of different opinions about the…
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Prosecuting the Duke Lacrosse Players
by Guest Columnist on July 31 2007, 10:27AM
Victor Goode writes for RaceWire. The ghosts of the Duke University rape case continue to haunt the press and Mike Nifong, the ex-county prosecutor who charged three white lacrosse players with raping a Black exotic dancer last year. In his…
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15th Erase Racism Carnival! Read all about it!
by Guest Columnist on July 27 2007, 2:26PM
Welcome to the July Erase Racism Blog Carnival! Every month, a different blog gathers posts from throughout cyberspace that explore issues of racial justice. The goal is to enhance the discussion of race online and connect bloggers working hard to…
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by Malena Amusa on July 19 2007, 11:26AM
An anti-war veteran gives us the word on the spreading cancer of war; the scourge of uranium; and racist killings of Iraqis. **** I’ve been ignoring tnews about the Senate’s debate on the pullout of U.S. troops that Democrats…
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Are Immigrants and Refugees People of Color?
by The News on July 17 2007, 10:09AM
This Month, ColorLines Magazine publisher Rinku Sen poses this very question and provides some compelling answers in an essay she hopes will provoke some reflection and dialogue. In “Are Immigrants and Refugees People of Color,” Sen argues immigrants and refugees…
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Speaking of Black men and the Military
by The News on June 25 2007, 10:39AM
Here’s Corey Andrew on the military’s corporate recruitment deal with online job sites and homophobia in the military. Watch this! Andrew explains this all very well….
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Israel Occupation at 40. Older, not wiser
by Guest Columnist on June 14 2007, 12:40PM
by Steven Salaita Men and women from all over the Southern West Bank stand in line for hours each morning on their way to work outside of Bethlehem. The Israeli occupation of Palestine is 40 years old this month. But…
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by Andre Banks on February 2 2007, 6:13AM
As we begin 2007, COLORLINES starts the year profiling a list of trendsetters and tastemakers we call The Innovators. Along with my colleagues at the magazine, I interviewed leaders in politics, art, music and even style, to create a…
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