Stories by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His forthcoming book is The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (Middle Passage Press, February 2008).
Latino voters are in a prime position to determine who will sit in the White House.
Posted on Aug 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Vice President's visit to pay homage to the new Saudi ruler sent a huge signal that the U.S. will do everything it can to placate the Saudi regime.
Posted on Aug 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We have good reason to be suspicious of GOP's motives on minority voting rights.
Posted on Aug 5, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
The streets of Los Angeles that erupted in violence 40 years ago are unchanged, despite political promises.
Posted on Aug 1, 2005
Last week's police shooting is just the latest in a long string of questionable cases.
Posted on Jul 27, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Ken Mehlman and the GOP are pulling out all the stops to woo the black vote.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005
The muffled response of blacks to the police shooting of a Latino toddler shows the distrust and tension between the two ethnic groups.
Posted on Jul 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Vicente Fox's appearance at the group's annual convention would have sent a strong message that America's neighbor to the south will do its part to improve black and Latino relations.
Posted on Jul 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What Georgia legislators called "the last unprosecuted mass lynching in America" was a turning point in law and public policy on racial violence.
Posted on Jun 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been a one man wrecking crew to expunge race from law and public policy decisions. Now with the ascendance of Janice Rogers Brown, Thomas has a follower.
Posted on Jun 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
One in an occasional series on the Issues in The Michael Jackson saga.
Posted on Jun 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
One in an occasional series on the issues in the Michael Jackson saga.
Posted on Jun 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
One in an occasional series on the Issues in The Michael Jackson saga.
Posted on Jun 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Lessons in The Jackson Trial -- Part 1. One in an occasional series on the Issues in The Michael Jackson saga.
Posted on May 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Relations between blacks and Latinos are rife with myths and misconceptions.
Posted on May 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
While
Crash pierces and pokes fun at racial stereotypes, it's the black perceptions about those stereotypes that make the film especially compelling.
Posted on May 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Virginia Republican Randy Forbes' federal gang busting is costly and unwieldy and a civil liberties nightmare.
Posted on May 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The hard truth is that blacks and Latinos are undergoing a painful period of adjustment in L.A. and America. They will find the struggle for unity to be long and difficult.
Posted on May 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
More than a decade after Cosby knocked TV and film execs for butchering the black image, the even more tragic irony is that he has done much to massacre his own image.
Posted on May 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
For brief moments, corporate discrimination case settlements like Sodexho's put corporate discrimination on the public radar.
Posted on May 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Many blacks have chosen to show their opposition by just saying no to the military. A death sentence for U.S. Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar won't change the view that the army is a deadly place for them.
Posted on Apr 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger should be willing to do what Pope John Paul II hinted he would do but didn't. And that's to come clean on the Vatican's role in the Holocaust.
Posted on Apr 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In the past decade, the tabloids have feasted off celebrity trials to bump up ad sales. They licked their chops at the prospect of making an even bigger killing off Jackson.
Posted on Apr 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
By depicting the demented acts of domestic terrorists as the work of loners, crazies and psychopaths, federal officials duck and dodge the fact that there are still a lot of Rudolphs running around in America.
Posted on Apr 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Cochran was more than a flamboyant, race-conscious, courtroom showman--he was a consummate legal professional that sought to use his prodigious legal talent to defend the rights of the poor and the dispossessed.
Posted on Apr 4, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
One in an occasional series on the issues in the Michael Jackson saga.
Posted on Mar 28, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The real issue behind Senate Majority leader Bill Frist's ploy to change the number of votes required to end a filibuster is the high court.
Posted on Mar 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The King of Pop is no babe in the woods when it comes to the motives of the tabloids and the networks. He knows that the media are obsessed with him, and that he can exploit that obsession for his own ends.
Posted on Mar 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bush's policies make it both the best and worst of times for many in black America.
Posted on Mar 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The public has long memories and even longer tongues when it comes to the emotionally hyper-charged issue of child sexual abuse.
Posted on Mar 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The hotly contested race has tossed the glare on the contentious issues of urban racial balkanization, white flight, surging Latino voter strength, declining black political power, and police abuse.
Posted on Mar 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The whitewash of the issues and even mystery that often surround the murder of a popular, but controversial, leader always raises questions and doubts, no matter how many years pass.
Posted on Feb 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The denial of voting rights to hundreds of thousands of blacks is a travesty of justice, and a blot on the democratic process.
Posted on Feb 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Despite the wave of highly questionable police shootings of mostly young blacks and Latinos the past few years, the Justice Department has done almost nothing to nail cops who blatantly kill unarmed citizens.
Posted on Feb 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In the past, Bush's flashy, new initiatives have fizzled out due to lack of money, lack of political will to push them through or lack of practicality. Bush's gang initiative may suffer the same fate.
Posted on Feb 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
AIDS activists blame loose and irresponsible talk about AIDS as a reason many blacks resist pleas to get tested and treated.
Posted on Jan 31, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The jury that will convict or acquit the world's highest profile black celebrity defendant of multiple child molestation charges is likely to be all or predominantly white.
Posted on Jan 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
George Bush and Karl Rove hope to bypass black civil rights leadership to make deals with black evangelicals and assure future electoral victory in battleground states.
Posted on Jan 27, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Despite the Rampart scandal, and the long history of police abuse cases in L.A., it's still virtually impossible to convince many jurors that some police lie, beat, maim and even kill unarmed suspects.
Posted on Jan 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It will take much more than music mogul Russell Simmons' dynamism and purported youth savvy to revive the flagging fortunes of the NAACP.
Posted on Jan 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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