Stories by Makani Themba-Nixon
Makani Themba-Nixon is executive director of The Praxis Project.
Bad policies and practices have meant bad health for millions.
Posted on Apr 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The silver lining of the misery of Hurrican Katrina is that communities are coming together to fight back.
Posted on Oct 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The states hardest hit by Katrina are for many African Americans our real home. Once again we are forced to face the fact that to politicians, black life is cheap.
Posted on Sep 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
My father's story represents the long tradition of black conservatism in this country. And if we are to truly understand the increasing number of African Americans joining their ranks, we will have to go back a lot further than this election.
Posted on Mar 1, 2005, Source: ColorLines
People of color are leading an effort to redefine media justice as a movement fighting for a vision of racial justice.
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: ColorLines
A current high profile ad campaign is pushing Blacks to accept school vouchers.
Posted on Jun 5, 2001, Source: SeeingBlack.com
Six weeks and more than a dozen front-page articles later, the New York Times series, How Race is Lived in America, ended this month as a major disappointment. Abandoning investigative journalism for storytelling, the Times' race coverage often trivialized racism as nothing more than personal relations.
Posted on Jul 25, 2000, Source: AlterNet
