Former Black Panthers Speak On Their Arrest For A 1971 Homicide Wednesday, 28 November 2007 ENCOURAGED BY THE WORDS OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, WIDELY RESPECTED WABC NEWS LIKE IT IS HOST GIL NOBLE, AND SCORES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, former Black Panther activists will speak for the first time in New York on November 30, 2007, about their arrest last January on charges related to the 1971 death of a San Francisco police officer. Earlier that morning, World Council of Churches representative lois M. dauway will release an international call signed by several nobel laureates and key human rights organizations, calling for all charges in the case to be dropped. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 987   Buchanan: "America [is] committing suicide" while Asian, African and Latin American children come... Wednesday, 28 November 2007 MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan appeared on the November 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes to discuss his new book, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, And Greed Are Tearing America Apart (Thomas Dunne Books, November 2007), in which he writes that America is "on a path to national suicide" and later asks: "How is America committing suicide?" answering: "Every way a nation can." He proceeds to claim that "[t]he American majority is not reproducing itself. ... Forty-five million of its young have been destroyed in the womb since Roe v. Wade, as Asian, African, and Latin American children come to inherit the estate the lost generation of American children never got to see."  Click to continue at MediaMatters.org Add Comment (0) Hits: 225   Is There a "Star System" For Crime Victims? Tuesday, 27 November 2007 If, God forbid, your child goes missing, you’d better hope she’s cute. And it would help if she’s blond. Oh, and white. Otherwise, if history is any indicator, you may wait a while for the outpouring of media attention that could result in the crucial tip to crack the case...  Click to continue at pajamasmedia.com Add Comment (0) Hits: 203   "NBC Nightly News" Begins Series on Black Women Tuesday, 27 November 2007 Throughout this week, the series "African-American Women: Where They Stand," is airing on "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams." The first piece, by Rehema Ellis, drew sharp contrasts between the progress made by black women and that by black men, and was notable for its suggestion that "society" celebrates bad-boy images of black men that might give black boys the idea that "dropping out is better than staying in."   Click to continue at Journal-isms Add Comment (0) Hits: 206   Frances Murphy II, a Washington, Baltimore institution, passes at 85 Saturday, 24 November 2007 Frances Murphy II, the first woman to chair the Afro-American Newspapers board of directors, the publisher emeritus of the Washington Afro-American and popular columnist at the Baltimore Afro-American and granddaughter of the newspaper's founder, has died. She was 85.  Click to continue at Afro.com Add Comment (0) Hits: 199

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