by Eli PaintedCrow
Latoya’s Note: Elisa Gahng of the Women of Color Resource Center sent me this op-ed, saying:

Eli is a native woman and a retired veteran who served in Iraq alongside her son. She also co-founded SWAN (Service Women’s Action Network) - a network of women of color veterans who are healing […]

Editorial: The Disaster in Burma — How You Can Help | Environment | AlterNet
“The International Burmese Monks Organization […] launched a new effort to provide relief through Burma’s powerful grass roots network of monasteries — […] currently the only source of housing and support in many devastated communities.”
(tags: international)

Britons fear race violence - poll
“Almost two-thirds […]

Washington Post - The Card Clinton is Playing
Lower-income white Democrats may well defect to John McCain in the fall if Obama is the nominee, Clinton is arguing, whereas African Americans — who have been choosing Obama by 9 to 1 — are going to vote for the Democratic nominee no matter what. Thus, she claims, […]

reappropriate » Blog Archive » I’m White. I Should Be President.
“That statement is a slap in the face to every person of colour who ever hoped for a career in politics. She says to them that the demographics aren’t there, so don’t even bother standing in the way of White ambition.”
(tags: politics gender race racism)

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by Latoya Peterson
I am sure that you all have noted a bit of an uptick in hip-hop oriented content on the site. At first, I was planning to do a hip-hop week full of posts and content on hip-hop and hip-hop culture. However, after the feminism wars and reviewing all my research, I […]

by Latoya Peterson
Currently on the front page of the Washington Post:

The caption reads:
U.S. Panel Wants King Statue Altered
Unhappy with “confrontational” image, powerful federal arts commission wants Martin Luther King Jr. statue proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin reworked. (Photo: Lei Yixin)
The associated article about the project states:
A powerful federal arts commission is urging […]

by Latoya Peterson
This is a continuation of a series. See parts 1, 2, 3, and 3.5 for more details.
So it took me a while to write this part of the series, partially because I am still looking for a concrete answer to the following question:
Why do so many people want to focus more on […]

by Fatemeh Fakhraie
This Sunday, May 11, PBS will air a documentary at 10 pm EST entitled Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age. It explores five prominent Muslim American stand-up comedians (Ahmed Ahmed, Azhar Usman, Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, and Tissa Hami) as they perform their sets, draw inspiration from their life events, and […]

BBC NEWS | Africa | Can Tanzania reap bumper harvests?
“Mr Mchome sends text messages detailing the prices via his mobile phone to other farmers in the region. This gives them more power to demand fair prices from the traders.”
(tags: international food economy)

Finding the Working Class Amusing « Education and Class
“Fox News analysts snicker their way […]

by Latoya Peterson
One of the most annoying memes I hear keep popping up in the media and on various threads and boards is that “blacks are voting for Obama - why is it racist to say whites vote for Clinton? It’s a fact that black people are voting for Obama because he’s black, just […]

by Guest Contributor M.Dot

It’s challenging to criticize hip hop publicly.
My rationale is that Hip Hop gets hammered by the popular media, so why should I contribute further to it?
When given more thought, I see this as a poor reason to avoid criticizing anything. As an athlete I know criticism is feedback and nothing […]

Seeking Avalon - Walk the Line
I was originally not going to comment on Melissa Bruen. Then I learned that there was backlash.

This story seems like a graduating journalist’s cry for fame. If I’m mistaken, then I am sorry, but I don’t buy into any of it. Sweet picture on the front […]

by Guest Contributor Alex Alvarez
Interracial and interethnic dating has as much, if not more, to do with “Family Matters” as my own family. So, in order to try to describe the experience of being in an interethnic relationship, I have to first evaluate the culture popping up all around me. Grab some Cheez Puffs […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I, along with Baratunde Thurston of Jack & Jill Politics and Casey Lartigue of The Casey Lartigue Show were on News and Notes yesterday to discuss the latest string of protests over the shooting death of Sean Bell, Tuesday night’s Democratic primary results, and the death of an interracial marriage pioneer.
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by Latoya Peterson
The new season of the Real World is on. This one is The Real World XX: Hollywood.
Wendi saw something shady and dropped us an email. *sigh* I rolled over to the MTV site to see what new manufactured racism for ratings was in store for me.

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