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| 3/26/03 |
Taco's Tomato Pickers on Slave Wages
The American fast food giant Taco Bell has been buying tomatoes produced by slave and sweatshop labour, according to a group of Florida tomato pickers who held a 10-day hunger strike outside the company's headquarters. |
The Guardian (UK) |
Guidelines Strive for 'Environmental Justice'
For the first time, New York state has clear guidelines designed to bring what advocates call "environmental justice" to low-income and minority neighborhoods that have historically seen a disproportionate amount of development-related pollution and health risks.
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Albany Times Union |
For Blacks, the War Is Another Divide
A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken Sunday showed that African Americans are far more likely to oppose the war than white Americans, and are generally more disapproving of President Bush's handling of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Sixty-one percent of African Americans who responded to questions on the poll said they opposed "the United States having gone to war with Iraq," compared with 20 percent of white Americans who answered the poll. That level of opposition roughly parallels the proportion of African Americans who consider themselves Democrats. Overall, 72 percent of Americans said they support military action. The nationwide poll is based on interviews with 580 randomly selected adults and includes an oversample of 69 black Americans. |
Washington Post |
My Black Male Feminist Heroes
As a young graduate student I was mentored by poet and Audre Lorde biographer Masani Alexis DeVeaux. She taught me the importance of being a black man who closed ranks with those black women who resisted and challenged the sexism, misogyny and patriarchal norms found among some black communities and institutions. |
Pop Matters |
Environmental Justice in the 21st Century
Hardly a day passes without the media discovering some community or neighborhood fighting a landfill, incinerator, chemical plant, or some other polluting industry. This was not always the case. Just three decades ago, the concept of environmental justice had not registered on the radar screens of environmental, civil rights, or social justice groups. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Memphis in 1968 on an environmental and economic justice mission for the striking black garbage workers. The strikers were demanding equal pay and better work conditions. Of course, Dr. King was assassinated before he could complete his mission. |
Environmental Justice Resource Center |
New U.S. Policies Continue to Erode Civil Rights, Liberties
A new report released by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR),
entitled "Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U.S. Law and Policy Since
9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties," details the disregard of the
U.S. government toward the conservation of basic rights and liberties in
the eighteen months since the events of September 11th. The LCHR report
concludes that many of the new provisions adopted by the Bush
Administration require repeal or substantial refinement. It also finds
that the courts need to take more seriously their oversight role.
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CivilRights.org |
Narrow Supreme Court Decision Upholds "Three Strike" Law
The Supreme Court rejected two constitutional challenges to California’s controversial "three strike" law , in a deeply divided 5-4 decision. This decision is seen by many as the latest example of the Rehnquist Court’s drive toward a broader conception of "states' rights," that leaves little or no room for federal standards as a constitutional check on state action. |
CivilRights.org |
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning independent feminist filmmaker, writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia. Ms. Simmons is the producer, writer and director of NO! the forthcoming feature length documentary that poignantly exposes and addresses the collective silence of the Black community when Black men and boys rape Black women and girls. Afro Mama’s founder Trula Breckenridge talked with Ms. Simmons via phone about the NO! documentary. |
Afro Mama |
Leadership Conference Calls on Senate to Reject Inequitable Tax Cuts
The tax cuts in the budget plan reported by the Senate Budget Committee
represent an "irresponsible and inequitable blueprint for our nation's
economy," stated the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) in a
letter sent March 18, 2003 to all senators.
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CivilRights.org |
No Justification for Racial Profiling
On the morning of Jan. 31, Aquil Abdullah, a member of the U.S. national rowing team and the single sculls winner in the 2002 U.S. national rowing championship, found out what it takes to be a target in Attorney General John Ashcroft's war on terrorism: a Muslim name. |
San Diego Union Tribune |
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| 1/9/03 |
Plans Accelerate for Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Moreover - Black interest news |
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| 1/8/03 |
Stakes Is High
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The Nation |
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| 1/6/03 |
Dreaming Against the Odds
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The Washington Post |
The Weight of a Family's Hopes
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The Washington Post |
Old South Goes With the Wind
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The Washington Post |
Know Pain, Know Gain
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The Washington Post |
People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black
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The Washington Post |
Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope
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The Washington Post |
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| 12/13/02 |
The Fake Parade
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Freezerbox |
Relic of Past Overstayed His Welcome
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The Atlanta-Journal Constitution |
Upholding Affirmative Action
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The New York Times |
What's a Little Segregationism Among Friends?
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Slate |
The Ignoble Nobel
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The Guardian |
Supreme Court to Revisit Colleges' Diversity Efforts
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The New York Times |
Using Synonyms for Race, College Strives for Diversity
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The New York Times |
