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- Blacks seek probe of CIA drug links
Follow-up: Cocaine flowed to Los Angeles in the
‖80s
- By Gary Webb and Pamela Kramer, San Jose Mercury
News, 24 August 1995. Reaction in L.A. and
Nashville to MN account of ‘crack’ cocaine
explosion. U.S. drug war fought on the bodies of inner
city youth. This newspaper article was a major
expose.
- ‘The State of Black America
1996:’ Bad and getting worse
- By Fred Gaboury, in People’s Weekly
World, 30 November 1996. The 21st edition of the
Urban League’s The State of Black America.
- (Structural) Integration vs. (Cultural)
Assimilation: A Distinction with a Difference [Draft]
- By Perry A. Hall <hallpa@email.unc.edu>, paper read at
the 16th Annual Pan-African Studies Conference, Indiana State
University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 10 April 1999. Offers an
alternative to existing approaches: conventional/integrationist
and afrocentric/nationalist.
- The Shameful Silence of Many Black
Ministers
- By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 21 June 1999. Black
ministers’ ‘distorted’ and
‘complacent’ emphasis on chariot over Jordan
sermons while turning a blind eye toward the civil rights
and black power battles. The church has generally
abandoned progressive leadership in the Black
community.
- Direction of the Black LGBT Left
- A dialog on the Black Radical Congress list, December
1999. Debate over the co-option of the Black gay movement
by a middle class white National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force’s Creating Change conference.
- The Truth About Black Crime
- By R. Jeneen Jones, 16 January 2000. A statistical
evaluation of the view that Black men are generally
violent and aggressive law breakers.
- Africans and Indians: Only in America
- By William Loren Katz, BRC News, 6 February
2001. Alex Haley was hardly alone when he discovered Native
American roots to his family tree. Today virtually every African
American family tree boasts an Indian branch.
- Record job losses for Black workers
- By Monica Moorehead, Workers World, 24 July 2003.
The overall unemployment rate around 6.4 doesn't include
workers who have become so discouraged that they have stopped
looking for a job altogether. Over the past 28 months nearly
2.6 million jobs have been eliminated. For African American
workers the impact is even more devastating because of the
the last hired is the first fired.
- Thirty Percent Of Black Men In U.S. Will Go To
Jail
- By Gary Younge, The Guardian, 19 August 2003.
Black men born in the United States in 2001 will have a one in
three chance of going to prison during their lifetime if current
trends continue, according to a report by the US Justice
Department.
- After years in the suburbs, many blacks return
to city life
- By Kris Axtman, The Christian Science Monitor,
29 April 2004. A growing number of affluent and middle-class
African-Americans are moving back into traditionally black
inner-city areas; a dramatic reversal from the days when when
many African-Americans believed a home in the suburbs was a
measure of “making it.”
- A Forgotten Black-Jewish Alliance
- By Dr. Rafael Medoff, Emperors' Clothes,
reprinted from Arutz Sheva (Israel National News),
17 January 2005. Back in the 1950s, Zionist Jews played a
socially progressive role.
- Is Bill Cosby Right or Is the Black Middle
Class Out of Touch?
- Interview with Michael Eric Dyson, on National Public Radio,
“Talk of the Nation”, 3 May 2005. A year ago, Bill
Cosby set off a national debate in a speech to the NAACP where
he criticized poor blacks in sometimes harsh language. Cosby
emphasized personal responsibility, or the lack of it. In a new
book, Michael Eric Dyson describes Cosby's remarks as a
vicious attack on the most vulnerable among us.
- Exiles from a city and from a nation
- By Cornel West, The Observer, Sunday 11 September
2005. It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the
misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get
America to focus on race and poverty. It happens about once every
30 or 40 years.