Thursday, June 17, 2010

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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Friday, June 4, 2010

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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