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Trayvon Martin's Death, Racial Tensions and Anthropology

American Anthropological Association | Posted 05.28.2012

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As an anthropologist, I'm left with many burning questions. Chiefly, even if someone becomes a social pariah, why force him into awkwardly fit racial categories?

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Herman Cain: New Black Panther Threats To Zimmerman Are Just As Bad As Trayvon's Death

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.29.2012

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Herman Cain went on Fox News Thursday morning to defend the decision of his chosen candidate, Newt Gingrich, to stay in the GOP presidential primary. ...

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Trayvon Martin: Not a Symbol for Vigilante Justice

Lawrence D. Elliott | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: New Black Panther Party, El Cajon, George Zimmerman, Crime, African Americans, Trayvon Martin, Crime News

If the only justice Trayvon Martin's family can receive is the street kind, then the image of justice in America will have been greatly tarnished. Justice in our country is supposed to be delivered at the end of a legal trial from a jury of one's peers, not at the end of a vigilante's gun.

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No Country for Kids in Hoodies

Patricia McGuire | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Stand Your Ground, New Black Panther Party, George Zimmerman, Florida Gun Law, Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Gun Control, Guns, Trayvon Martin Case, Stand Your Ground Law, Million Hoodie March, Trayvon Martin, DC News

The right to life is an empty promise in a nation that venerates guns more than the peace and safety of the community.

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NYPD Infiltrated Liberal Groups Too

Posted 05.23.2012

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By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK -- Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kep...

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Mumia Abu-Jamal Surprised And Disappointed By Philly DA's Decision

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 02.11.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal said Monday that he was surprised and somewhat disappointed that he did not get a new senten...

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New Black Panther Party Report Likely To Whet Conservative Appetites

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights prepares to release its final report on the much-hyped case of New Black Panther Party voter intimidation at a ...

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New Black Panthers: Coates' Testimony a "Bombshell" -- Of the Self-Exploding Kind

Michael Yaki | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lawsuit on the Panthers was a rush to judgment -- filed long before it was ripe, before a full investigation was completed, and contrary to longstanding practices whether the defendants be black or white.

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All bets off: "Star" Witness in New Black Panther Investigation Falters

Michael Yaki | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -- scratch that -- the right-wing majority of the Commission -- investigation into the so-called New Black Panther...

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Fox's Six Tricks: How to Spot the Next Sherrod

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Fox 'News' is different. Journalists who say that Fox and MSNBC are just mirror equivalents of each other are wrong. Let's decode Fox's parlor tricks in its relentless effort to create news and advance the conservative agenda.

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The Media's Two Failures on This Summer's Race Stories

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have you noticed a funny thing about America's long, hot summer of racial tension? Unlike other periods of racial strife, there is no massive activity here. There is no national debate. There is only media.

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Does Free Speech Mean Free to Offend?

Terry Kelhawk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obviously life is full of offense. We can't legislate good taste or make everything that offends everyone illegal. Freedom of speech entails the freedom to offend. But that doesn't mean we have to offend.

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The Race Card: Dealing From the Bottom of the Deck

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Say the magic words and end the conversation. Say the magic words, and uncomfortable facts and figures disappear. Responsibility? Gone. Complicity? Vanquished, with a phrase.

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The Racism Faux-Scandals

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

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The right is using its media echo chamber to settle scores and reinforce its own "oppression narrative" in which black racism is a major national problem, and in which racism is not measured by material facts, but by what's allegedly in your head.

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GOP and New Black Panthers: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing

Michael Yaki | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Civil Rights Commission has become the attack dog lackey of the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, and it will be no surprise when it issues a hysterical red-baiting screed castigating the Obama Administration.

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Fox and the Hounding

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New Black Panthers Party "story" isn't a story at all -- certainly not as Fox News is selling it. It's a Southern Strategy dog whistle designed to rile up more fear in an already angry and frightened white America.

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O'Reilly: Fox Better, More Influential Than Network News... 'New Sheriff In Town'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill O'Reilly took on the media over its coverage of the New Black Panthers scandal Monday night on "The O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly took on Howard Ku...

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The Willie Hortonization of Barack Obama

Ari Rabin-Havt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Barack Obama, Willie Horton, New Black Panther Party, Fox News Black Panther Party, Black Panther Party, Politics News

A long line of inmates enters and exits a prison yard. As the lone black inmate reenters society, he peers into the camera with a menacing glance. The ad plays on "fears of the dangerous, violent, black male."

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The "New" Face of Voter Intimidation

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Panthers, New Black Panther Party, Redistricting, President Obama, Voter Intimidation, African American, Voting Rights, Obama Administration, Department of Justice, Philadelphia, Black, Politics News

Revolutionary brothers kickin' it in radical vibe, radically resplendent in military-style fatigues, cocked berets and the stain of street mud on Army...

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WATCH: Bob Schieffer Defends Himself Against Fox News Allegations

Posted 05.25.2011

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CBS News' Bob Schieffer defended himself against Fox News Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources." Schieffer, who interviewed Attorney General Eric Holder...

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Blacks Blind Eye to the New Black Panther Party Hurts

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The tiny, fringe New Black Panther Party did a great service for the Obama and race baiting conservative attack machine. It finally gave it another e...

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New Black Panther

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Does Fox News' Ugly Race Baiting Become The Story?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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The conservative movement is now wallowing in the kind of unapologetic race-baiting that mainstream American politics hasn't seen in decades, if not generations.

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Welcome to a Long, Hot Summer of Right-Wing Race Baiting

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you thought last summer's Obama Beer Summit was troubling in terms of how far-right media partisans wallowed in the topic of race, early indication...

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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