Civil Rights Activist Benjamin Hooks' FBI File Details Racist Threats Against Him #p2 #race

This report released by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that for the first time in three decades, the South is in danger of losing its leadership as the nation's most integrated schools. The report examines the effects of the dual processes of racial transformation and resegregation on the educational opportunity of students, as well as the relationship between race and poverty and its implications in light of the recent Supreme Court decisions. The report concludes with recommendations for school districts.

When she said she had a different adulthood b/c her dad didn't tell her he was shot in Birmingham in the 40s-More at

On February 23, 2009, veteran Black Freedom movement leader Ruby Sales had a conversation with Vera Leone, SOA Watch organizer, about state violence and white violence against people of color in the United States, and the implications of that historical and present context for our continuing organizing to close the School of the Americas and dismantle the racist system of violence and domination which it represents.You can listen to the audio file here .

You may recall that I created the Obama Inauguration cover for The Nation magazine... It's been a while and I've been busy on the poster for that cover. I'm almost finished... (I've added over 30 new figures to the artwork), but I could still use your advice... Updated artwork and more below the fold...

Philadelphia, MS elects first black mayor in runoff

Neither version was correct—and both were. The reality was complex enough that people could assemble a story line, buffet-style, to suit their outlook. The proliferation of media outlets made this even easier. New “facts” popped up everywhere. The N

With fewer than 150 blacks, the town of Grand Forks, N.D., hardly figured to be a key front in that battle — until, that is, Larry Lubenow talked to Louis Armstrong.

A 'zero-tolerance' policy against violent crimes has put more Miami-Dade students in handcuffs--for fighting, graffiti and other minor offenses.

jewish communal responses to ward connerly prop

on Connerly's misuse of MLK speech

You need a radical affirmation of bondage only where you have a radical affirmation of freedom.

This was done to send a message to whites and blacks - that there are fewer and fewer bases, fewer and fewer grounds upon which interracial relations and interracial alliances can be formed.

Race and its ideology about human differences arose out of the context of African slavery.

And until we get the formation of plantations, until we get this new institution which demands labor and benefits from squeezing people and wringing out of them as much work as you possibly can, the behavior and the interaction of Europeans and Africans a

What's important to remember is that when the English established the colonies, they were motivated by greed.

In August 1971, the FBI and the Jackson Police Department raided the RNA “compound” on Lewis Street to serve four warrants, one a murder warrant for someone who had just arrived from Detroit, the others for misdemeanors. The RNA fought back; and Lt. W

good web library of articles on the subject

The beginning of 2004, a presidential election year, is a good time to take another look at Emory Douglas's work as a graphic designer, illustrator, poster artist, political cartoonist, and master craftsman of the Black Panther Party's visual message

Unless we place fighting electoral racism at the top of the racial justice agenda, we cannot challenge the political stranglehold of conservative white voters or maximize the growing power of people of color.

It happened all around the country. Prior to Election Day 2004, people of colors, students and low-income people were intimidated and denied the right to vote. Citizens reported 1,074 instances of voter intimidation to the Election Protection Coalition.

But an examination of the exit polls shows something very different (though not at all new): the centrality of race in U.S. politics. The bad news is that the Republicans, trumpeting their program of aggressive war and racism, swung the election by increa

Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided—known as “spoilage” in election jargon—because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what happened in Florida and studies of elections

It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by almost a million votes. That's because, in important states like Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, voter names have been systematically removed from the rolls and absentee ballo

Alabama Rural Health Assoc and Alabama Dept of Public Health

FairVote2020 has developed an interactive map showing the distribution of the African American population in Alabama. We hope to update this application with voting data maps.

None of us thinks voting is the only way to make change. But after the last 4 years, all of us know too well what happens when our votes aren’t counted. This project backs up our ballots with people power. It also seeks to honor our ancestors, especiall

The Sovereignty Commission, Racism and State Terrorism

BUSH and THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

Rebels with an old cause reclaim their town's not-so-glorious heritage with the assistance of a black mayor.

The southern skeletons in the Bush administration's closet