By The Admin on September 1, 2010
New York Times
- A few clicks on the Web site of Black Entertainment Television leads viewers to a short Nascar tutorial filled with information about popular drivers, racetracks and salaries.
It may seem odd to find a sport so closely tied to white Southern men featured on a Web site devoted to African-American entertainment, but it [...]
Posted in Media, Race | Tagged BET, NASCAR
By The Admin on August 31, 2010
Louisiana Weekly
- Black women are struggling to find employment in New Orleans and are being hindered by gender and race five years after Hurricane Katrina, according to two fact sheets presented last week by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.
In 2005, women made up slightly more than half of the New Orleans labor [...]
Posted in Louisiana, Race | Tagged Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans
By The Admin on August 31, 2010
Politics Daily
- The latest grievance from the Tea Party nation is how the mostly white mainstream media projects its own flaws onto mainstream America when they report that most of the attendees at Glenn Beck’s rally on Saturday were white. The allegation triggers memories of another big event, the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, [...]
Posted in National Politics, Race
By The Admin on August 30, 2010
Chuck Hobbs, Esquire
- The New York Times cyber headline “Beck and Sharpton hold parallel rallies” perhaps says it best. 47 years to the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his vision of an America where race matters less than character, two men, both self anointed heirs to his legacy and that vision, [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race | Tagged Al Sharpton, Glenn Beck, Martin Luther King Jr.
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
CNN
- My job as an imam and outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located minutes from the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, was created September 11, 2001, to convey a more accurate image of the American Muslim community and to create opportunities for interfaith cooperation and understanding distinct from the stereotypical image of [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race