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).
Want to know what's really behind Americans' racial biases? See the surprise winner of the Best Picture Oscar.
Posted on Mar 7, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
The tape is proof that Bush is not, and never was, the man of action his spin-masters made him out to be.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
More than fifty House members have endorsed a bill to reopen the King assassination investigation.
Posted on Mar 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The racial violence that has torn apart L.A. County's correctional system has roots that go far beyond the jails.
Posted on Feb 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The last in a three-part series examines the roots and reasoning of some African-American communities' anti-immigration views.
Posted on Feb 17, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
A further exploration of why some black leaders fear that increased immigration may threaten their job security.
Posted on Feb 7, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
The late Coretta King shared her husband's passion for justice, and worked tirelessly to improve America for all races.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006, Source: Pacific News Service
Illegal immigration has touched a raw nerve among certain poor black communities.
Posted on Jan 26, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Black students are under fire at America's schools.
Posted on Jan 18, 2006, Source: AlterNet
For years, the GOP has capitalized on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name to reimagine itself as a party of diversity and inclusion.
Posted on Jan 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
King is no different than other major historical figures: Everyone wants a piece of his fallen legend to puff up their importance.
Posted on Jan 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The tactics they use are the same as the ones used on Martin Luther King, Jr. and '60s radicals.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
There's nothing new about the government's domestic spying; and nothing new about the excuse used for it either.
Posted on Dec 21, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
At last count, there were more than 100 prisoners aged 60 and older on America's death rows.
Posted on Dec 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Both Schwarzenegger and Williams were trapped in an impossible political Catch 22.
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Richard Pryor was an equal-opportunity audience baiter who paved the way for today's biggest comedians by putting race relations at the center of his art.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Williams' death will be a great tragedy and a monumental waste of human potential, but it won't give closure to the victims' families or reduce violent crime in this country.
Posted on Dec 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's a myth that a large majority of African-Americans are against the death penalty.
Posted on Dec 5, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
A glimpse at Williams' thug past shows much about the legions of young black men like him.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Governors are afraid of being seen as soft on crime, running from granting clemency to convicted murderers. But in the case of 'Tookie' Williams, it must be considered.
Posted on Nov 22, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Granting clemency to the reformed founder of the Crips would serve as a model for others in trouble.
Posted on Nov 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. locks up more juveniles for life without parole than all nations combined -- and black youth are unfairly targeted.
Posted on Nov 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The much-anticipated new cartoon has crossed the line by relying so heavily on a racist slur.
Posted on Nov 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Supreme Court nominee has a troubling past when it comes to equal rights and race.
Posted on Nov 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Two events in Rosa Parks' life -- her sparking of the Montgomery bus boycott, and an attack on her by a young black man 40 years later in Detroit -- echo the triumphs and failures of the civil rights movement.
Posted on Oct 25, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Instead of executing the reformed Crips founder, the governor should grant him clemency.
Posted on Oct 23, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
It's official -- Bush is the least popular president ever among African-Americans.
Posted on Oct 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
If John Roberts was not an extreme enough nomination to filibuster, then Miers is even less so.
Posted on Oct 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Paranoid conspiracy theories about Katrina are coming from Aryan Nation racists, Millennium Christian fundamentalists, anti-Semitic crackpots and fringe-left radicals alike.
Posted on Oct 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Reports of rampant violence and theft in the wake of Katrina fit nicely into the media's beliefs about African-Americans.
Posted on Oct 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
William Bennett's oddball racist cracks will hurt Republicans' black-voter drive.
Posted on Oct 3, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The woman who traded meth for freedom is an example of how our drug policy has failed.
Posted on Sep 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The latest conspiracy theory making the rounds is that New Orleans' levees were deliberately destroyed.
Posted on Sep 28, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
Could Mother Nature do what the Democrats couldn't?
Posted on Sep 24, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The aftermath of the hurricane could dilute black voter and Democratic strength throughout the South.
Posted on Sep 16, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
The nominee refuses to meet with black leaders for the same reasons Reagan did.
Posted on Sep 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Racism and Bush's tax and war policies were not the only reasons for New Orleans' poverty rates.
Posted on Sep 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The deplorable looting in New Orleans puts an ugly public face on a crisis that Bush administration policies have made worse.
Posted on Sep 2, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
A no-win, unpopular war always spells trouble for the party in power.
Posted on Aug 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
With the exception of a march in Harlem, the faces of the antiwar protestors have looked like Sheehan's.
Posted on Aug 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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