Phillip Martin

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Phillip WD Martin is a public radio journalist and Executive Producer for Lifted Veils Productions (http://liftedveilsproductions.blogspot.com/), a non-profit journalism organization dedicated to exploring issues that divide (and unite) society. Currently he is heading up The Color Initiative, a BBC/WGBH radio-journalism project broadcast on PRI's "The WORLD" (http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/17931) Phillip was a Supervising Senior Editor for National Public Radio and former NPR Race Relations Correspondent. He was among a group of senior producers responsible for creating The World radio program in 1995. He has written for several publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post Outlook Section, Nieman Reports, Japan Times Weekly and the Boston Globe. He studied international relations and international law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and human rights law at Harvard University Law School.

Blog Entries by Phillip Martin

Neo-Nazism in Russia Was A Sure Sign of Things to Come in Georgia

Posted August 19, 2008 | 04:23 PM (EST)

It was Monday evening in February of 2004 when a particularly harsh winter arrived at the doorstep of Yusuf Sultonov. The Tajik immigrant was walking into his apartment building in St Petersburg with his young daughter, Khursheda, and son, Akobir. A gang of seven teen-aged skin-heads rushed across the...

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Why So Many Iraqis Hate Us? Try "Towel Head" On for Size

Posted April 11, 2008 | 07:50 PM (EST)

In the five years that the U.S. military has occupied Iraq, the reasons for hating Americans have mounted: the looting of Mesopotamian treasures, rising violence and crime in the streets, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, the leveling of An Najaf, and also add "sand nigger" and "camel jockey" to the list. By...

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Why Willey Won't Vote For Hillary in November

Posted March 13, 2008 | 11:47 AM (EST)

I've known Willey since the time my parents abandoned Detroit's run-down East Side for the less-run-down West side. I was ten and Willey was in his early 20s, but wise beyond his age and ninth grade education. We often talked in the backyard over the fence about civil rights, Vietnam,...

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Journeying Through a Black Experience Not My Own

Posted March 2, 2008 | 02:30 PM (EST)

Traveling on an air-conditioned bus along Malaysia's North-South Highway to Kuala Lumpur can not sensibly be compared to the freedom ride from Selma to Montgomery. But for the dark-skinned man seated near me, it could well have been a similar historic journey. He was a Malaysian activist of Tamil-Indian descent...

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