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Zimmerman and Young Black Males

  It seems strange that after reading the report that most of the newspapers missed this  in their reporting about the racial profiling by Zimmerman Now I understand what and who" these @!$%#s" are that Zimmerman was referring to in his call to the police   And  …

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The Most Racist Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Touré - National - The Atlantic

There's a Chris Rock joke that is emblematic of modern racism. It's from his 2008 standup routine "Kill the Messenger," and it's about Alpine, New Jersey, the posh town where he lives in a multi-million dollar home. His neighbors include Mary J.

Why I Joined the Green Party

But what if you start to realize that BOTH sides are really one in the same?  What do you do when you recognize that BOTH sides are bought and paid for by the corporations that funded their multi-million dollar election campaigns

The Tea Party's War on America - NYTimes.com

America’s real crisis is not a debt crisis. It’s an unemployment crisis.

Police: Man killed with one punch at Las Vegas casino

A racial comment in the restroom of a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom preceded a single fatal punch that left a tourist from Utah dead and a Florida tourist jailed in Nevada on a murder charge, authorities said Wednesday

Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession

Growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Deborah Goldring slept two to a bed, got evicted from apartment after apartment, and watched her stepfather climb utility poles to turn their disconnected lights back on. Yet Goldring pulled herself out of poverty and earned a middle-class life — until the Great Recession.

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Only 35 Black Calculus Students In All Oregon High Schools | News One

These startling low numbers and other statistics are prompting district leaders to acknowledge and reevaluate ways to reverse the inferior educational outcomes of African Americans in the state.

Slave Labor - Comes to Wisconsin to replace Union Workers - Brought to us by Koch Money...

All labor form of workers, park workers and public gulf courses should expect their laborers to be replaced with prisoners or reform school or state mental health workers.  The money paid does not go to the workers.  

The Debt Deal Trojan Horse, And The Elephant In The Room | OurFuture.org

Do you hear a noise like power saws cutting away at your Social Security benefits? That's the sound of the politicians working on the "Chain Gang." They're promoting the "chained CPI," Washington's latest gimmick for tricking voters and cutting their hard-earned benefits to p …

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: Black Unemployment

Like the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes.

BET Has Become The New KKK | News One

If Manson had been given the platform supplied by BET and the rest of corporate America and a license to share his rhetoric without restraint, he could have caused the deaths of millions more.

Civil rights survey: 3,000 US high schools don't have math beyond Algebra I

These data paint a portrait of a sad truth in America’s schools,” she said, “that the promise of fundamental fairness hasn’t reached whole groups of students that will need the opportunity to succeed, to get out of poverty, to ensure their dreams come true …

Bernie Sanders: Don't 'Yield' On Debt Deal (VIDEO)

"Tell the president not to yield one inch to Republican demands to destroy Medicare and end Medicaid while continuing tax breaks to the wealthy and the powerful,"

A layer cake of racist lies - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

 'People here have started cooperating with us because we aren't just talking nice to them, we are building collateral. These folks ... have been marginalised for years.

I'm O.K., You're a Psychopath - NYTimes.com

he writes, “the obvious conclusion is that the medical and psychiatric classification system is crying out for a category called ‘empathy disorders.’ ”If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing m …

Sagging Economy Draws Attention to War Spending- NYTimes.com

Most Americans would be shocked to know that we’re spending that kind of money for jobs programs for former Taliban, and would wonder where are our jobs programs for Detroit and Cleveland?”

Man Holds Up Bank For $1 In Attempt To Get Medical Treatment In Prison

unemployed, who apparently has a chest growth, two ruptured disks and a problem with his left foot, tried to rob a bank of $1

For Blacks, a rift over Obama

financial and educational success — has happened for some blacks, but is beyond the reach of a vast number of others.

Tornado Deaths, Blacks Denied Shelter

But Madison Phillips says it is true. He says that he and his mother, Annette Singleton, both black, were turned away from a church shelter by a white woman on the afternoon of April 27,

New Jersey Doctor: Here's How My UBS Banker Told Me How To Hide Money From The IRS

One of those banks was Basler Kantonalbank, a regional Swiss bank, where the doctor put the remaining $250,000.  Other banks recommended for tax evasion: Swiss bank Julius Baer Group and several Israeli banks, including Bank Leumi le-Israel and Bank Hapoalim. Read more …

Young Blacks Think Career World is Racism Free

Recent studies show that blacks with a college education find it harder to find jobs than their equally educated white peers.  In addition, industries such as advertising are actually considered more segregated than they were thirty years ago.

Kevorkian's audacious attitude set him apart

Jack Kevorkian built his suicide machine with parts gathered from flea markets and stashed it in a rusty Volkswagen van.

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Don Cheadle: Let's Plant a Forest

Forest preservation needs to be a priority: over 36 million acres of natural forest are destroyed annually.

Who's to blame when gas costs $1 more than last year? - USATODAY.com

What a crazy system we have," he said. "People resist paying an extra 5 cents per gallon in gas tax to fix the highways, but we allow speculators to raise the price of gasoline by 50 cents a gallon."

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