Posts Tagged ‘Poverty’

Social Media Activism: Adding to the Haitian narrative

American relief efforts should be driven by an understanding of what resources would provide the greatest benefit, rather than driven by an ego-based desire to be the hero that swoops in and saves the day. -Trina Chiasson, executive director of Media Make Change NEW YORK – A survivor of a natural...

March 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

US human rights record challenged

Navajo Nation Council Delegate Rex Lee Jim and Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper Oren Lyons were among those who documented the ongoing violations against indigenous peoples as the United Nations reviews the United States’ compliance with human rights obligations. Photo by Valerie Taliman ALBUQUERQUE, N.M....

March 22nd, 2010 | American Indians, Featured | Read More

Will the new jobs bill help hardest hit areas?

In response to our nation’s ongoing economic challenges, a new federal jobs bill is expected from Congress soon. The Kirwan Institute has been tracking the impact of federal efforts to alleviate the economic crisis for the past year. Given our experiences tracking the impact of American Recovery...

February 26th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

A conversation with Dr. Cornel West

Hi. This is Kathleen Wells. I’m the political correspondent for Race-Talk. Last week, I had an opportunity to talk with Dr. Cornel West. He is the professor of Religion and African American studies at Princeton University. Hope you enjoy listening to the conversation. Listen Now Kathleen...

February 23rd, 2010 | Cornel West, Featured | Read More

PREVIEW: A conversation with Dr. Cornel West

Last week, I had a conversation with the self-professed “bluesman in the life of the mind” and “jazzman in the world of ideas,” Dr. Cornel West. He talked with me about President Barack Obama’s first year in the White House and spoke with me about the historical significance and the...

February 22nd, 2010 | Cornel West, Featured | Read More

Selling Food Stamps for Kid’s Shoes

By Seth Wessler, Published in ColorLines, February 16, 2010 Research support was provided by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.Additional research by Juell Stewart. Since she was 16, Eva Hernández has worked a string of low-wage jobs. She’s prepared chicken at KFC, run the register...

February 17th, 2010 | Racial Equity | Read More

Dadaab, the Somali struggle to flee violence

By Tariq Tarey, Program Manager, Somali Documentary Project Dadaab Refugee Camp. Photo by Tariq Tarey. Somali people have been fleeing the violence in their homeland since before the civil war began in 1991. However, with the Ethiopian invasion in 2006, the exodus has seriously increased. Since that...

February 15th, 2010 | Transforming Race Conference | Read More

Hell and hope

Race-Talk contributor Bill Quigley is on the ground in Haiti his latest diary entry Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port-au-Prince police headquarters is gone, already bulldozed....

January 29th, 2010 | Haiti | Read More

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity

What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More

Jobs focus welcome… but where do the jobs go?

The following is a statement from PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell on President Obama’s first State of the Union address: “A recovery that merely recreates our inequitable pre-recession economy is no recovery at all. Throughout his first year and his first State of the Union address, President...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More

On the ground in Port au Prince

Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port au Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the ground as well – surrounded by nurses, doctors and humanitarian workers who sleep on the ground every night. The buildings...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, Haiti | Read More

President Obama’s State of the Union Address

“Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For two hundred and twenty years, our leaders have fulfilled this...

January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More

ARRA – One Year Later: What happened?

This past fall, I was camping in a nearby state park, enjoying the fall colors and appreciating the time to reconnect with family. While hiking, my wife and I came across a series of trails, buildings and other amenities in the park, labeled as products of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Conservation...

January 27th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Maladjusted

Last week my wife and I had the grand opportunity to leave our two kids in the care of her parents and spend five days on vacation in California. Afterwards we both agreed that it was probably the most enjoyable vacation we’ve had. We walked the streets and hiked the hills of San Francisco and spent...

January 23rd, 2010 | Featured | Read More