"The Help" is building Oscar buzz despite historical mistruths -- while white/male Oscar contenders derail serious conversation about structural racism in Hollywood.
The ban on Mexican American Studies in Tucson high schools has led to "offensive" books--including Shakespeare's The Tempest--being removed and locked in a warehouse.
Amy Goodman, Michelle Alexander, Randall Robinson, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. January 15, 2012.
For Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Democracy Now! hosts a discussion of mass incarceration among African-Americans and how it has created a new Jim Crow era.
The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.
Akiba Solomon, Danielle King, ColorLines. December 5, 2011.
D.C.’s transgender women of color are carrying the heaviest of loads, but violence and terror and discrimination isn’t the sum total of people’s lives.
Melissa Harris-Perry, David Sirota, The Nation and Salon. September 27, 2011.
Melissa Harris-Perry argues that we're seeing a "more subtle form of racism." But David Sirota counters that it's not racism but Obama's right-wing policies that are to blame.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. September 26, 2011.
The Right wants to return to the "happier days" of the 1950s--but forgets that one of the main reasons for that era's prosperity was very high taxes on the wealthy.
