By The Admin on March 30, 2009
Federal prosecutors are trying to inject race into the criminal trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton with a proposed jury questionnaire that includes a series of questions about race relations, the mayor’s attorney argues in court papers.
Melton, the second black mayor of Mississippi’s largest city, is accused with his former police bodyguard of orchestrating the [...]
Posted in By State, State & Local News
By The Admin on March 30, 2009
Dedrick Muhammad
- Greed, economic exploitation, and dehumanizing stereotypes of inferiority have been the root of racism in the Western world. Brutal, racist exploitation in the United States and throughout the Americas has been the means through which Western European economies have been built; belief in the inferiority of people of color justified the concentration of [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 30, 2009
The sinking economy is threatening the ethnic publications that immigrant communities rely upon to stay informed and navigate American life.
Although the ethnic press once seemed immune to the forces hurting mainstream newspapers across the country, a growing number of publications that serve immigrant and minority communities are laying off staff, closing print editions or shutting [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on March 30, 2009
President Barack Obama says the crisis in Darfur is not going to be easy to solve, but he says the United States can speak with one moral voice to address the humanitarian problems.
Obama said Monday that his special envoy to Sudan, J. Scott Gration (GRAY-shun), would speak with the full authority of Washington. Obama says [...]
Posted in International News, White House
By The Admin on March 30, 2009
As editor and publisher of a small-town newspaper in the Mississippi Delta, Hazel Brannon Smith was boycotted by fellow whites and condemned in the state Senate because she advocated equal treatment of blacks during the volatile 1950s and ’60s.
Now, 15 years after Smith died penniless, Mississippi lawmakers have approved a resolution to belatedly honor her [...]
Posted in Media
