AltWeeklies Wire
Urban Removal Project Displaces Blacksnew
Descendants of the black people who lived in the doomed settlement of Styx are having their land taken away -- this time by the West Palm Beach Housing Authority.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
03-22-2005 |
Race & Class
Black and White in Grays Harbor Countynew
There's only one thing worse than living in a decaying Northwest timber town: being African American in a decaying Northwest timber town. Meet the Walker family of Hoquiam, Wash. They're 4 percent of the county's black population, and they're taking a stand against racism.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
03-16-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
A Bad Rap? A Collision of Politics and Musicnew
Hearn explores the history of rap - its connection with politics, misogyny and vulgarity.
Jackson Free Press |
Adrienne Hearn |
02-24-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Woman Protests NAACP's Involvement in Her Divorcenew
Elease Love, an African-American former forklift driver, doesn't think that the staff attorney of the Houston chapter of the NAACP should have represented her husband, a master carpenter named Fabio Avendano, in their bitter divorce.
Houston Press |
George Flynn |
12-13-2004 |
Race & Class
A Hate Supremenew
If Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, the bios that come should not gloss over his ardent and active support of racial segregation in the years before he joined the Supreme Court, when he was a private lawyer in Phoenix, Ariz.
Boston Phoenix |
David Bernstein |
12-01-2004 |
Race & Class
The Sons of Confederate Veterans Face Another Civil Warnew
It's been 139 years since the Civil War ended. But judging by the latest infighting within the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which came to a head at the group's recent national convention in Dalton, Ga., a truce in the long-running cultural war about the meaning of Southern pride may still be generations away.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
08-19-2004 |
Race & Class
Ruby Bridges and Ruby Hallnew
In 1960, the nation watched 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrate William Frantz Elementary School. Today, Ruby Hall lives quietly in New Orleans and rents a storage facility just to keep the mail she receives from schoolkids across the country.
Gambit |
Katy Reckdahl |
07-12-2004 |
Race & Class
Springfield Gets Serious about Recruiting Black Firefightersnew
When Cecil Taborn Jr. was hired to join the Springfield Fire Department, it was the first time in almost 15 years a black had been hired. The department, which has only three blacks out of 211
firefighters, is now making a greater effort to hire minorities.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
07-02-2004 |
Race & Class
The Day Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Diednew
This detailed narrative describes how three young civil rights workers lost ther lives in Mississippi on Father's Day (June 21), 1964.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
06-16-2004 |
Race & Class
Cinco de Mayo Isn't What People Thinknew
Cinco de Mayo is not, as many would have it, a day to commemorate Mexico's independence from Spain. It's a celebration of the date in 1862 that Mexico defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
05-05-2004 |
Race & Class
