Mychal Bell, one of the Black students known as the Jena 6, is back in jail. Bell, was ordered to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge determined he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions.
According to CNN, the decision to send Bell to the juvenile facility came at the [...]
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Nation-states are actually modern developments. Regional, linguistic, ethnic, class, religious, and other forms of solidarity or connection that were either smaller or larger were to be radically subordinated to national identity. The only reason why US was able to succeed is that it has been able to persuade wave after wave of immigrants to relinquish [...]
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The US military says it has met its recruitment goals for 2007. However, signing new soldiers is getting more difficult. New figures reveal there has been a 40 percent drop in African-Americans signing up for the army.
Watch the lies they are telling our kids. As one of the put it, “there is peer pressure and [...]
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As I mentioned at the beginning of the week Earl Ofari Hutchinson will be around to promote his newly published book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African-Americans and Hispanics. Mr. Hutchinson will be around for a short time to answer any further questions or followups.
I would like to point [...]
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Today, youth across the nation are told by our government that Christopher Columbus merits honor and celebration because it marks the arrival of Columbus to the Americas. Most nations of the Americas observe this holiday on October 12, but in the United States the annual observance takes place on the second Monday in October. It [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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