November 2009
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Thompson Is Said to Mull a Run Against Gillibrand
DANNY HAKIM, New York Times – City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., weighing his options in the wake of a surprisingly close loss in the mayoral race, is seriously considering challenging Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in next year’s primary elections, according to people who have spoken to Mr. Thompson and his advisers. Challenging Senator Gillibrand [...]
Racial pawns in the battle for same-sex marriage
Taylor Harris, Washington Post – Their refrain was as familiar to me as dining hall food, and equally as offensive. All too often, white liberal classmates at the University of Virginia would ask, “Shouldn’t blacks, more than any other group, support gay rights?” I never understood my classmates’ need to align the historical struggles of [...]
No JFK Moment for Obama on Afghanistan
Earl Ofari Hutchinson – The great hope was that President Obama would have the courage and political sense to do what JFK did forty six years ago. Kennedy told the generals ‘no’ to their demand for escalation in Vietnam. It wasn’t easy. The Pentagon had drawn up plans for the massive military ramp up, had [...]
Black Radio Fights Performance Royalties
Neda Ulaby, NPR – New legislation in Congress could drastically change music-industry economics. As it currently stands, musicians in the U.S. aren’t paid when their songs are played on the radio unless they wrote the songs, too. Only songwriters get radio royalties, not the folks who play and sing their tunes. Two bills moving through [...]
Number of hate crimes up slightly in US: FBI
The number of US hate crime victims rose slightly last year to nearly 9,700 from 9,500 in 2007, with most people targeted because of their skin color, the FBI said Monday. More than half of hate crimes committed in the United States were racially motivated and three-quarters of the victims of those attacks were black, [...]
