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).
What I learned from the Duke rape case.
Posted on Oct 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
What do Foley's massive misdeeds mean for the Dems in November?
Posted on Oct 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
He simply hasn't been on the political scene long enough to sell the Dems' message and open the money spigots.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006, Source: AlterNet
At first glance, a GOP ad stating that King was a Republican is a cheap shot that stretches political lunacy past the outer limit.
Posted on Sep 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Prussian Blue, a set of 14-year-old white supremacist singers, are using songs to spread their message of intolerance.
Posted on Sep 20, 2006, Source: New America Media
The question in November's gubernatorial race isn't whether Republicans will turn out for their candidate, but whether Democrats will turn out for theirs.
Posted on Sep 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The new season of 'Survivor' is being lambasted for dividing the teams along racial lines. But don't Americans self-segregate all the time?
Posted on Sep 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
President Bush's policies of deception are breeding an increasing number of fringe theories about the 9/11 attacks.
Posted on Sep 7, 2006, Source: New America Media
Unfortunately, Civil Rights-era segregation never officially died.
Posted on Aug 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
A crushing majority of blacks still blame Bush's bungled Katrina response not on incompetence, but on racism.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The pain that storm unleashed should have brought us together in compassion -- instead of separating us via racial rancor and finger-pointing.
Posted on Aug 22, 2006, Source: New America Media
A year later, FEMA is still under the tight bureaucratic thumb of Homeland Security.
Posted on Aug 16, 2006, Source: New America Media
At least for one fleeting moment, we were talking about American poverty.
Posted on Aug 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Top Dems view Ga. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as a pariah, and they have cut and run from her campaign.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The August 8th run-off race for the embattled and controversial House member is a cautionary message for other black politicians.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006, Source: New America Media
Condoleezza Rice's main job seems to be defending the president's foreign policy initiatives, even when they're nonexistent.
Posted on Jul 24, 2006, Source: New America Media
After six years of no-shows, will the president finally agree to speak at a convention for black interests?
Posted on Jul 17, 2006, Source: New America Media
Attempts to make it more difficult for blacks to vote are longstanding, as is opposition to the Voting Right Act.
Posted on Jul 5, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
By stalling in renewal of the hugely important civil rights legislation, the GOP is throwing a bone to conservative Southern whites.
Posted on Jun 28, 2006, Source: New America Media
The murder of five teens in New Orleans is a cue to question the violence plaguing our cities -- and the internalized racism fueling the carnage.
Posted on Jun 20, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Nancy Pelosi's move against William Jefferson wasn't a slap at black voters. It was a deserved slap at the Lousiana Congressman himself.
Posted on Jun 15, 2006, Source: AlterNet
After a recent case, in which a black man was pummeled with the N-word -- as well as a baseball bat -- by a white man, the issue is being debated again.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Mass murderers aren't all white men, as the recent slaying of an Indianapolis family reminds us.
Posted on Jun 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The sheer number of jobs lost due to illegal immigration is enough for some blacks to believe it has adversely them.
Posted on Jun 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson should be held to a higher standard after getting caught with his hand in the public cookie jar.
Posted on May 25, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush knows that the Senate's English-only amendments are empty symbolism, at best.
Posted on May 22, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Katrina radically changed the political and racial landscape in the Big Easy -- and it's anyone's guess whether Nagin will endure as mayor.
Posted on May 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Bush latched onto the troops-on-the-border issue in part to show that he can get a policy initiative through Congress, but mainly to appease conservatives.
Posted on May 17, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Latinos are now the country's largest minority -- a fact that bothers some blacks.
Posted on May 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why are Minuteman Project leaders trying to recruit anti-immigration supporters in black communities?
Posted on May 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Never mind the GOP's anti-immigrant rhetoric; they need Latino voting power to win future elections.
Posted on May 2, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Nearly forty percent of young black males are unemployed. Not by choice; because employers refuse to hire them.
Posted on Apr 24, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
While most civil rights leaders and black Democrats now support illegal immigrants' rights, for a long time they were mute on the issue.
Posted on Apr 17, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
The Duke rape claim and McKinney police episode were distractions that diverted public attention from the
real fight against discrimination.
Posted on Apr 12, 2006, Source: AlterNet
With growing numbers of Latinos hitting the polls, the GOP is slowly losing its incentive to woo black voters.
Posted on Apr 10, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
The cooperation between racial groups at the 1968 Poor Peoples' March is still a worthy model for the immigrant rights movement .
Posted on Apr 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Anti-immigration activists say illegal immigrants are taking jobs from the American urban poor -- especially young black workers.
Posted on Apr 3, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Immigrant rights activism is spreading nationwide, but why aren't old-guard civil rights groups joining the cause?
Posted on Mar 28, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
America's clearly fed up with the president. But how can we translate his lower-than-low approval ratings into political gains?
Posted on Mar 22, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The rise and fall of Claude Allen tells much about the GOP's courting of black conservatives.
Posted on Mar 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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