Archive for April 8th, 2008

Ebony Jet: Net Neutrality

In April 2006 last year, the Republican controlled Congress voted overwhelmingly to reject the imposition of network neutrality or “net neutrality” ...

Yahoo! News: OK, Sen. Obama, Let's Have the Race 'Talk'

In his Big Speech defending his 20-year membership in a church headed by a racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, conspiracy-believing pastor, Democratic ...

The Royal Gazette, Bermuda: DeSilva: ‘I want to create a level playing field’

New MP Zane DeSilva is the PLP's first white MP since David Allen. Here he tells The Royal Gazette's Matthew Taylor why more people need to breach ...

Yahoo! News: A Brief for Whitey

How would he pull it off? I wondered. . . How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev ...

Yahoo! News: Cancer Facts and Figures 2008 Released

Cancer mortality rates in the US continue to decline, although the number of actual cancer-related deaths has gone up, according to Cancer Facts ...

Don’t Say ‘Gypsy’ on International Roma Day

It's a time both for celebration and for considering issues confronting the world's Romany community, says Professor Ian Hancock, Director of the Romany Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas.

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This is London: Boris: I’ll be the Mayor to unite all Londoners

Boris Johnson made a bid for the capital's ethnic minority vote today by promising his policies would help Londoners of all backgrounds. . . The ...

Seacoast Online: Activists rip Maine license plan

Immigrants' rights activists went on the offensive Monday against Gov. John Baldacci's proposal to make driver's licenses more secure, saying it ...

Huffington Post: Arizona Leader: McCain Has “Zero Relationship” With African Americans

Show your support. Buzz this article up. Like this story? Get Alerts of big news events. Enter your email address . Oscar Tillman heads the Phoenix ...

DiversityInc: 10 Things Never to Say to a Black Coworker

Fried chicken anyone?" "You speak really well." "Is that your real hair?". . In 2008, you'd think the taboo subjects and phrases would be clearly ...

WAS MURDER MORATORIUM A SUCCESS?: Yes, according to civil rights leader

*Civil rights leaders claimed success in their call for a 40 Hour Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Moratorium on Killings in Los Angeles. The Moratorium began Friday April 4th at 6.01 PM (the time and date Dr. King was killed forty years ago).

JEREMIAH HAS NEGATIVE EFFECT ON BARACK: Controversy weakened white support for Obama.

*According to the most recent News York Times/CBS News poll, support among white Americans for the presidential candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama "has softened" since the massive media reporting regarding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Examiner: Despite Pa. focus, Clinton faces a knockout in N.C.

Largely overshadowed by Hillary Clinton's make-or-break bid to win Pennsylvania in two weeks, Barack Obama is quietly widening his lead in the next ...

Yahoo! News: Throwing Grandma Over the Side

It's a mistake to try to pigeonhole Barack Obama. He is too smart and too agile to succumb to easy categorization. But the candidate's eloquence is ...

Yahoo! News: CNN weighs conspiracy theories in King murder

CNN and Soledad O'Brien mark Friday's 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with a thorough and admirable two-hour ...