On a June morning in 1998, Rodney Pearson, the first black highway patrolman in Jasper, Texas, got a call. He walked along a mile and half of drag marks, skin and blood, and found the spot in the woods where three white supremacists had wrapped a logging chain around James Byrd Jr.'s ankles, hooked it…

Black and Hispanic homebuyers pay a 3 percent premium, even when factors like access to credit and income are taken away.

Researchers led by Patrick Bayer at Duke…

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday of the need to prevent “illegal infiltrators flooding the country,” According to the country’s Army Radio.

 

“If we don’t stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state,” he said at the weekly cabinet meeting, held this week at Ammunition Hill in honor of Jerusalem Day.

The…

Addicting Info is reporting that the United Nations will investigate the maltreatment of Native American tribes.

This year, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, the UN has decided to open an investigation on the US Government’s former and current treatment of Native Americans. The…

Somebody firebombed Mike’s Grocery, a white-owned store in a black Wilmington neighborhood, during three days of racial violence in February 1971. When firefighters and police came to put out the blaze, somebody fired shots at them.

Weeks later, 17-year-old Allen R. Hall was arrested on assault charges stemming from those violent days. The police told him they knew who had burned the store.

“They said they didn’t want me or anyone else, but that they…

ATLANTA--Butch Graves — President and CEO of Black Enterprise— has issued a warning to Black America in his April 2012 column for the magazine, “Choose Wealth, Not Style.”

Graves say that African Americans are “driving in reverse” in their quest for the proverbial American Dream.  In 1984, white Americans had a net worth…

The suit was filed on behalf of the wife of 31-year-old Manuel Loggins, Phoebe Loggins, and their four children – including the two girls who witnessed the shooting and the youngest who was born nearly a month after the fatal shooting.

Loggins, a sergeant stationed at Camp Pendleton at the…

More than two years before white supremacist border vigilante
JT Ready was involved in a deadly rampage in Arizona, the FBI was reportedly told he planned to lead deadly raids on Latino households in…

This past October, at an Occupy encampment in Cleveland, Ohio, "suspicious males with walkie-talkies around their necks" and "scarves or towels around their heads" were heard grumbling at the protesters' unwillingness to act violently. At meetings a few months later, one of them, a 26-year-old with a black Mohawk known as "Cyco," explained to his anarchist colleagues how "you can make plastic explosives with bleach," and the group of five men fantasized about what they…

By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA News Service from The Wilmington Journal

RALEIGH, NC (NNPA) – Seven survivors and the families of three deceased members of the Wilmington Ten – 1970s civil rights activists convicted 40 years ago of conspiracy charges to commit violence – are scheduled to formally petition North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue on Thursday to grant each wronged activist a formal pardon.The May 17 petition filing was…

     On May 15, 2012, Merle T. Rutledge Jr, a Norfolk State University

alumni and civil rights activists, filed for his candidacy for Mayor

of the Town of Chatham, Va. Merle T. Rutledge Jr believes in a open

door policy of government that is transparent and more inclusive of

the community needs. Merle T. Rutledge Jr believes that the Town of

Chatham, Va should have a resolution that bans Uranium Mining. He also

believes that the Town should…

Steve Watson

Infowars.com

May 15, 2012

Judge Andrew Napolitano has warned Congress not to act “like potted plants” regarding the…

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About two hours after declaring his support forsame-sex marriage last week,
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Reverend Jeremiah Wright caused problems for President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008, and new details have emerged alleging that the then-candidate tried to convince his former pastor to keep quiet.

 
The retired pastor, who came under fire after an old sermon where he said that the September 11 terrorist attacks were 'America's chickens coming home to roost', said that he was offered $150,000 to stay silent until the election was…

(CNSNews.com) - Despite "significant" progress in civil rights, the nation is still struggling to "overcome injustice" and "eliminate disparities," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Detroit chapter of the NAACP on Sunday.

The attorney general also mentioned Trayvon Martin by name, as he decried the violence and crime involving young people.

"This (violence) is an issue that has -– rightly -– garnered significant national attention in…

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