By The Admin on March 31, 2011
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press on Thursday he doesn’t plan to pardon two sisters he released from prison earlier this year on the condition that one donates a kidney to the other.
Barbour, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, was asked what he’ll say to a pardon request that the attorney for Jamie and [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on March 31, 2011
Police have placed two officers on paid administrative leave as part of an investigation into the apparent beating of a black man that was caught on tape.
Birmingham Mayor William Bell also called for more training on the appropriate use of force by police after the man’s attorney released video of the incident to media this [...]
Posted in Alabama, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 31, 2011
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan reiterated his defense of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, calling the embattled Libyan leader a friend and Muslim brother who’s lent the movement $8 million over the years.
Farrakhan, speaking at a rare news conference, railed against the media and said Gadhafi isn’t the monster being portrayed by Western governments.
The 78-year-old [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on March 31, 2011
The Guardian (UK)
- Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation’s “triumph over race”. There’s an implicit yet undeniable message embedded in his appearance on the world stage: this is what freedom looks like; this is [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 31, 2011
The Nation
- In the months following September 11, my colleague Cornel West offered this insight: national political elites used the devastating attacks to promote the “niggerization of the American people.” West understood that long before 9/11, African-Americans were intimately familiar with terrorism. Through the Jim Crow century, they were routinely and randomly brutalized and murdered [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
