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More Invisible Americans: Bias in Media Reporting on Latinos
Tweet The Pew Hispanic Center’s useful Excellence-in-Journalism website reports a survey of the media’s skewed reporting on Latinos, and severe under-reporting of numerous matters of importance to...
View ArticleA White Supremacist Century: Supreme Court as White Oligarchical Power
Tweet The recent Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v Federal Elections Commission, which essentially forbids any restrictions on corporate financing of political candidates, has garnered much media...
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Bashing Thurgood Marshall: Reactionary and Racist Republican Framing
Tweet The Republican Party’s leaders demonstrated once again early this week that they are still moving against the demographic shift in U.S. society—that huge shift in which Americans of color are...
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John Brown’s Birthday: Remembering Anti-Slavery Revolutionaries
Tweet[This is a repeat of a May 9, 2010 posting on this, the birthday of John Brown–an important US revolutionary who died, with his black and white colleagues, fighting for the freedom of enslaved...
View ArticleThe End of Affirmative Action in Education? Reactionary Judges Get to Decide
Tweet The New York Times has a recent article by Adam Liptak suggesting that the right-wing, white-oriented majority on the U.S. Supreme Court may be poised to knock down all targeted college and...
View ArticleWhose Accent Counts? All Speak English with an Accent in the US?
TweetSan Luis, Arizona is a small border community (2009 population was 25,682) located on the southwest corner of the state. As is true in most Arizona border towns, its population is predominantly...
View Article“A Long Slow Drift from Racial Justice” — The Hidden Perils of the Fisher Ruling
TweetLast week two decisions from the Supreme Court seemed to turn the clock back on the delicate framework of Civil Rights constructed in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson eras, in what the...
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National Dialogue on Race
TweetTrayvon Martin’s tragic death has inspired nationwide demonstrations and calls for action that have reverberated all the way to the White House. President Obama’s spontaneous and heartfeltwords...
View Article2013: Still Dreaming of Justice
TweetOh, but you who philosophize disgrace And criticize all fears Bury the rag deep in your face For now’s the time for your tears Bob Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” This Dylan song...
View ArticleConflicting Worlds of the Racialized US “Justice” System
TweetInside me a little chuckle comes to life, while simultaneously my lips curl to form a devious smile when people discuss subjects and infuse the word “irony.” It simply is one of those words I...
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