A week after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, I walked into my old hometown bar in central Florida to hear, “Well if a nigger can be president, then I can have another drink. Give me a whiskey straight up.”
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Tune in to Building Bridges on WBAI 99.5 FM / http://www.wbai.org/playernew.html on Monday, Jan. 13 at 7 pm for a tribute to Amiri Baraka and to CPRMetro at http://cprmetro.blogspot.com/ on Saturday, January 17 at 10 am for the stream of his homegoing services:
The following is an excerpt from Ian Haney-López’s new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”(Oxford University Press, 2014). This excerpt originally appeared onSalon.com.
When you look at the facts, it’s clear that racism governs American drug policy. While five times as many white people as black people report using illicite drugs, the U.S. criminal justice system sends blacks to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites according to the ACLU.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake…
By Andrew Cohen
Oklahoma’s legislature voted to reduce the state’s skyrocketing, budget-busting prison population, but ideological state officials are trying to make sure it doesn’t happen.
Sadly, some writers have focused exclusively on the militant linkage between Malcolm X and Amiri Baraka to the criminal neglect of the genius of poetic insight and monumental powers in the art of the spoken word that bound them together.
A Study of American Attitudes About Work, Economic Opportunity, and the Social Safety Net
Student activist Tre Murphy: Eric Holder and Arne Duncan’s call for less use of zero-tolerance policies is a good start but much work remains to reign in the use of law enforcement in public schools
HAVANA, Cuba, Friday January 10, 2014 – In the week since Cubans were granted the right to buy new and used vehicles from the state without special permission, markups of 400 percent…
Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an advertisement that is now worth revisiting.
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