Black Gulf Fishers Face a Murky Future

By Brentin Mock
the ROOT
May 25, 2010

The African-Americans who make their living from shrimp and oysters on the Louisiana Gulf Coast have long been an endangered breed. The oil spill may be the final blow to their way of life.

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Sarah Silverman Re-Brands Fox News as ‘Racism Engine’

Truthdig
June 2, 2010

Sarah Silverman’s no shrinking violet, as she recently demonstrated once again by launching a direct hit on the Murdochian empire that is Fox News, calling the cable news channel “a 24-hour-a-day racism engine” in her startlingly named new book, “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee.”

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Changing Face of U.S. Cities a Harbinger of the Future

By Eli Clifton and Matthew Berger
Inter Press Service
May 10, 2010

The majority of youth in U.S. cities are no longer white, but there is also a growing disparity in the educational background and incomes of those cities' populations, says a new report from the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

The report details what it calls the "new realities" of who the U.S. is and who it is becoming...

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Legal Defender Isabel Garcia: Arizona Bill Forcing Officers to Determine Immigration Status Marks “All-Out Assault” on Latino Communities

DemocracyNow!
April 16, 2010

Arizona lawmakers have approved what’s being described as the harshest anti-immigrant measure in the country, forcing police officers to determine the immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. Meanwhile, over fifty people were arrested Thursday in a federal immigration sweep targeting van operators allegedly involved in smuggling in undocumented migrants from Mexico. We speak to Isabel Garcia, co-chair of the Tuscon-based Coalition for Human Rights and legal defender of Pima County, Arizona...

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Photographer Kike Arnal & Ralph Nader on “In the Shadow of Power: Poverty in Washington, DC”

DemocracyNow!
March 02, 2010

Washington, DC is the most powerful capital city in the world. But it's also a city that is deeply divided between a wealthy and extremely influential minority and an impoverished and largely disenfranchised African American majority. The seat of global power is also home to a population that remains largely invisible to the politicians, journalists, lawyers, lobbyists and contractors around Capitol Hill. This other Washington, DC maintains the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of child poverty, the highest mortality rate from HIV/AIDS, and the lowest life expectancy in the country. Kike Arnal discusses his new book of photography, In the Shadow of Power.

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20,000 march against racist sheriff

By Paul Teitelbaum
Phoenix
Published Jan 21, 2010 8:30 PM
Workers World

“¡Se ve, se siente! ¡El pueblo está presente! (You can see it! You can feel it! The people are here!)” This was one of the many popular chants that reverberated through the streets of Phoenix on Jan. 16 as 20,000 people expressed their outrage and disgust with Joe Arpaio, the racist, immigrant-bashing and terrorist sheriff of Maricopa County...

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Landmark Apartheid Reparations Case

DemocracyNow!
January 12, 2009

A landmark case against several international corporations accused of aiding South Africa’s apartheid regime is underway. The companies include Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and IBM. They are accused in a class-action lawsuit of complicity in human rights abuses during the years they did business in apartheid South Africa. The suit was filed several years ago by black victims of white minority rule. Their lawyers are seeking up to $400 billion in compensation...

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Indigenous peoples and H1N1 deaths

By Dolores Cox
Workers World
January 9, 2010

In December, the Centers for Disease Control issued a report regarding national mortality and infection rates from the H1N1 “swine” flu virus. One portion of the report was almost an afterthought and not very widely reported: Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and Alaska have been four times more likely to die from the swine flu as has the population overall.

Similar findings have been the case in Canada, where some Manitoba First Nations communities were outraged in September when the Canadian government initially sent body bags and masks rather than much-needed medicine or medical personnel...

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