Why the NAACP and His Friends at the Top Can't Make Ben Jealous the Next Maryland Governor
Jon Jeter | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-24
Ben Jealous' abysmal campaign reflects the inertia of an African-American polity that was on the move only a generation ago and beginning to restructure central cities that were wholly unresponsive to people of color. | The post Why the NAACP and His Friends at the Top Can't Make Ben Jealous the Next Maryland Governor appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/naacp-friends-top-cant-make-ben-jealous-next-maryland-governor/249744/
Dr. Barbara Ransby: What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-24
News that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has prompted many to warn senators not to repeat the mistakes of the Anita Hill hearings of 1991, when Hill was questioned by an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee over her allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace. In the weeks after Hill testified, nearly 1,600 black feminists organized as "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" and signed a manifesto published in an advertisement in The New York Times. We speak with histo…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/24/dr_barbara_ransby_what_the_defamation
SF City Hall Rally Before Audit Hearing: If We Don't Get No Justice You Don't Get No Peace
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2018-09-24
SEIU 1021 San Francisco city workers rallied at City Hall on 9/19/18 to protest the systemic racism, workplace bullying and illegal discrimination and termination of African American and other workers in the City. The rally was called prior to a audit hearing of the SF Board Of Supervisors to hear from witnesses and the Department of Human Resources run by Micki Callahan. Workers said that she had been personally involved in managing the illegal discrimination and retaliation against African American and other city workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/21/18817678.php
What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-09-24
News that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has prompted many to warn senators not to repeat the mistakes of the Anita Hill hearings of 1991, when Hill was questioned by an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee over her allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace. In the weeks after Hill testified, nearly 1,600 Black feminists organized as "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" and signed a manifesto published in an advertisement in The New York Times. We speak with historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby, one of the initiators of the manifesto, who is now a professor of African American studies, gender and women's studies and history at the University of Illinois, Chicago. | Please check back later for full transcript. | The post What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings appeared first on Truthout.
truthout.org/video/what-the-defamation-of-anita-hill-can-teach-us-about-the-kavanaugh-hearings/
'Racially profiled & humiliated': Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-22
An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood.
rt.com/usa/439143-humiliated-degraded-wisconsin-candidate/
On Climate, the Centrists are the Deplorables
James Munson | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-21
For most countries, to be poor now is to have been rich before it mattered, like Bolivia or the Congo, or rich when it mattered, like Venezuela and Iraq. Literally torn apart for their timber, ore, labor, or spot on the map by resource-poor or depleted, or simply-gluttonous, rich ones. Terrain, climate, or sensitive agriculture…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/21/on-climate-the-centrists-are-the-deplorables/
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-09-21
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/21/work-s21.html
NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-17
Event to honor ancestors and mark African holocaust in Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, MD — On Tuesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson will speak at the 24th Commemoration of The Maafa at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York at 7pm EST. President Johnson will address the relevance of the African Maafa and the current […] | The post NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa appeared first on NAACP.
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