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).
Black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, paid a heavy price for defying interracial sex and marriage laws.
Posted on Jan 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Though Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an officially declared public holiday, many local government agencies still refuse to shut their doors, while opposition is most persistent among businesses.
Posted on Jan 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Though the African nations suffer less death and damage than the worst hit Asian nations, their chaotic governments, and empty treasuries, render them even less able to deal with the tsunami crisis.
Posted on Jan 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Clinton's buck-passing covered up the hideous truth that he knew about the genocide from the start, and could have done something about it.
Posted on Jan 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Though their response to the tsunami disaster has been admirable, wealthy nations have fallen behind in efforts to help fight poverty in the developing world.
Posted on Jan 3, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Bush's partial privatizing plan supposedly would help close the age-old racial gap.
Posted on Dec 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While the new anti-terrorism measures further hammer constitutional protections, top Democrats have again barely uttered a peep over the potential for abuse.
Posted on Dec 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may have praised his daughter for having the courage and conviction to march for her anti-gay beliefs, bigotry is still bigotry.
Posted on Dec 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Unlike the Peterson trial, death penalty defendants generally don't have a team of high-powered, high profile attorneys to argue for their life.
Posted on Dec 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
With the flush of election victory, Bush no longer needs to use end around maneuvers to get a controversial nominee into office.
Posted on Dec 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
NAACP leaders are sandwiched in the middle by the twisting political trends and shifting upward fortunes of the black middle-class, and downward of the black poor.
Posted on Dec 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a public advocacy group which tracks hate crimes, puts the actual number of hate crimes at more than 50,000 yearly.
Posted on Nov 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It's simply much easier, more fun and certainly more attention-getting to hack up Powell and Rice for allegedly selling out black interests.
Posted on Nov 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Chalking Bush's triumph up to fraud and conspiracies may be a comforting salve for bruised political egos, but it won't change that fact.
Posted on Nov 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While Senate Republicans are prepared to bend and twist the rules to get their way, and Bush will go on the attack, Democrats shouldn't bend and twist with them.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The majority of Bush voters in the so-called red states were not the stereotypical religious crackpots and racists that progressives delight in painting them.
Posted on Nov 5, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Black conservative evangelicals and Kerry's support for gay rights can potentially tip the scales for Bush.
Posted on Oct 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
But do the good outweigh the bad and ugly?
Posted on Oct 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There's been hardly a hint that racial problems are serious public policy issues during this election – that's a terrible blind spot.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
History has amply shown Bush's fate hinges on whether Americans buy Kerry's claim that they are worse off than they were four years ago.
Posted on Oct 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush's African-American team is a blatant effort to bypass mainstream civil rights leaders and cultivate a new brand of black leadership.
Posted on Oct 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Political and personal beliefs, party affiliation, and values still make a longer lasting impression.
Posted on Sep 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
U.N. resolutions, a visit by Colin Powell and tough talk by Bush won't cripple Sudan's military. An oil embargo will. And Bush has refused to take that step.
Posted on Sep 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
King banks that he can kill a boxing reform bill that he doesn't like, and that the GOP will help him do it.
Posted on Sep 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush's political assets equal his liabilities, and those assets are daunting for the Democrats.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Religious talk show host Pat Robertson predicts that Bush's reelection is divinely ordained, but much of the facts behind the presidential race ensure a hard fight to the end.
Posted on Aug 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush has his work cut out for him in trying to convince the American public that a second term would be beneficial.
Posted on Aug 26, 2004
In trying to make sense of Thomas' doctrinaire, contrarian court votes and opinions, the simple answer is that they are payback to civil rights and civil liberties groups for trying to wreck his confirmation to the high court.
Posted on Aug 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Keyes' Illinois run is the earnest comeback of a hard-line conservative – Dems should take that seriously.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Even as an increasing number of Latino, Asian voters and trade unionists defected to the Republicans, blacks stood pat with the Democrats. But in recent years they haven't got much in return.
Posted on Aug 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Barack Obama is hailed as the shining knight who will energize black voters – a group quick to express disappointment in the Democrats.
Posted on Aug 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Though the 9/11 Commission in its final report let Bush off the hook for any blame for the attacks, it still obliquely chided the administration for its lack of preparedness.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A legion of his progressive pals call Nader an egomaniac, spoiler, ingrate, a has-been and, much worse, a traitor.
Posted on Jul 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
In front of the annual NAACP convention, all candidates sound like the second coming of Martin Luther King. It's what happens after the convention that matters – and usually candidates quietly shove civil rights issues to the back burner.
Posted on Jul 20, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
The vast majority of Californians want to reform the three-strikes law. But Gov. Arnold just may turn his back on those people.
Posted on Jul 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Cosby is entitled to publicly air black America's alleged dirty laundry, but when there's more myth than fact in his words, he must be called out on it.
Posted on Jul 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
John Edwards should buck the trend among Democratic presidential contenders of downplaying civil rights issues. Instead, he should speak out loudly for affirmative action and hate crimes legislation, and for ending mandatory drug laws.
Posted on Jul 12, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
New laws virtually ban all travel by Americans to Cuba, severely limit family visits by Cuban-Americans, slash the amount of money that can be sent to or spent in the country, and wipe out all sports and educational exchange programs.
Posted on Jul 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Money and superstar allure, not race, are the key factors in the Kobe Bryant rape trial.
Posted on Jun 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Many have given in to the temptation to inflate Bill Clinton's life story and political deeds to Olympian heights.
Posted on Jun 21, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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