February 2008
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Berkeley NAACP Leader Sticks To Claim That Police Kill African Americans
NBC 11 Berkeley’s NAACP President has reiterated his claim that the city’s police are deliberately shooting and killing African Americans. Allen Jackson made the controversial remarks earlier this month after Anita Gay, 51, was shot and killed by a Berkeley police officer who was responding to a domestic disturbance call.Other NAACP members are distancing themselves [...]
Black Clergy Launch Movement For Families
Kenneth Kim, New America Media Frustrated by the political establishment’s inability to deal with challenges facing American families — and black families in particular — a group of African-American clergy members in Los Angeles are tackling those issues through the collective power of the African-American faith community. On a February evening, the Los Angeles Metropolitan [...]
First black woman will lead California Assembly
Nancy Vogel, Los Angeles Times With a resounding “aye,” the state Assembly on Thursday elected Karen Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat, as its 67th speaker. “I am deeply honored and deeply humbled by the trust you have placed in me,” Bass, 54, said moments after the vote that will vault her to one of California’s [...]
Measurable progress
Michelle D. Bernard, Washington Times In the mid-1960s, inner cities around the country exploded in violence. Americans were shocked and scared. In 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued the Kerner Commission Report, which ominously warned that America was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.” We have [...]
Voting for change in Jasper: If political parties don’t divide vote, notions on gender and race often do
BENNETT ROTH, Houston Chronicle Nearly a decade has passed since this small Southeast Texas town drew national scrutiny after James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death by three white men motivated by racial hatred. This week, around the corner from the courthouse where two of the three men were convicted, black and white residents [...]
