Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize
But It’s Up to Us to End This War By Julianne Hing, RaceWire From President Obama’s speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize today: There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.I make this statement mindful of what [...]
By Leticia Miranda, RaceWire This recent story in the Contra Costa Times, aptly titled “In East Bay, Where Pollution Goes, Health Problems Follow,” couldn’t be any more relevant. As the Copenhagen Conference continues, two local Bay Area writers follow the story of 10 year-old John Fitzpatrick who struggles with severe asthma and lives in a [...]
Continue reading …By Joseph Nasr RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – It’s always a sunny day on Sesame Street in the West Bank, where the neighbors are friendly and the muppets never see an Israeli army checkpoint all day long. The Shara’a Simsim version of the popular television program teaches Palestinian children they can achieve their dream of [...]
Continue reading …By Henry Der, New America Media, News Analysis The new freshman admission policy will take UC admissions in the wrong direction, and it will seriously affect minority applicants. Earlier this year on the recommendation of President Mark Yudof and the Academic Senate, the University of California Board of Regents adopted a new freshman admission policy. [...]
Continue reading …By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact As a front-page story in today’s Washington Post reminds us: “Not since the last great wave of immigration to the United States around 1900 has the country’s economic future been so closely entwined with the generational progress of an immigrant group.” The story highlights the degree to which the children [...]
Continue reading …Racism among white supremacist groups in Britain’s towns and cities is getting worse, a Cabinet minister John Denham will warn today. By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor, UK Telegraph John Denham, the Communities secretary, will give warning that Muslims are not the only group which can breed extremism. Pointing to recent convictions of white supremacists, and [...]
Continue reading …By Sonia K. Katyal A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving the trademark for the Washington Redskins. That decision left in place a lower court ruling stating that the plaintiffs had waited too long to bring a case for trademark cancellation – thus triggering the doctrine of laches, under [...]
Continue reading …Political ad features voters ‘admitting’ they are racist An unknown political group has uploaded this video to YouTube.com under the username ‘IWANTYOURMONEYDOC’. The 60 second ad, titled ‘I guess I’m a racist,’ is getting a lot of attention today from both sides of the health care debate. A short description posted with the video states [...]
Continue reading …By Barbara Ciara, Columnist for the Daily News I remember the first time I heard the N-word. Even though I didn’t know what it meant or why the person said it, I just knew it was a bad thing, because of how it made me feel. I was 6 years old and the lesson I [...]
Continue reading …Afro-Cubans responded to a letter from prominent African-Americans calling for an end to racism in Cuba. By JUAN O. TAMAYO, Miami Herald Pro-government Cuban writers and artists Friday rejected allegations by African-Americans of racism and repression on the island, calling the charges “delusional” and part of “an anti-Cuban campaign.” The reply came as four Afro-Cuban [...]
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