Diaspora
How Wars Are Made
What is the purpose of Hillary Clinton's recent speech about Iran? The most obvious conclusion is that it is to promote conflict, and to convince Americans that Iran is an actual threat to their security.
By Mark Weisbrot
Feb 22, 2010,
10:43
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Diaspora
Haiti Holds Day of Mourning
Haitians hold day of mourning one month after earthquake. Study: Haiti damage could top $13.2B. Haitian president: it will take three years to remove rubble. Second major rainfall since quake hits the country. UN launches record $1.4B appeal. UN relief coordinator “disappointed” in Haiti response. 8 missionaries freed, return to US. Check all the Haiti news.
Feb 19, 2010,
13:59
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Diaspora
Haiti: Death Toll Rises; Rainy Season Approaches
Death toll revised to 230,000. Rainy season approaches. US sets May 1 target for shelter, long after rainy season begins. Judge calls for release of detained missionaries. women protest lack of aid. US firms lobby for reconstruction deals.
Feb 12, 2010,
13:09
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Diaspora
More Than 200,000 Dead
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| Photo: Radioteleginen.ning.com |
Haiti confirms toll of over 200,000. Also,1M earthquake survivors lack food aid. One million remain homeless in Haiti. US missionaries charged with kidnapping Haitian children. G7 nations pledge to forgive Haiti’s debt. Clinton to coordinate Haiti relief for UN. Plus: links to organizations continuing to aid Haitians.
Feb 8, 2010,
15:17
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Diaspora
Haiti: Evacuations Continue, Flights of Children Scrutinized
US resumes Haiti medical evacuations after cost dispute. 10 US Baptist missionaries arrested for trying to smuggle out Haitian children. Report: US military spending in Haiti more than triple Assistance to Haitian gov’t. Survivor found beneath rubble after 15 days
Feb 2, 2010,
12:46
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Diaspora
Haiti: Disaster and Death
Earthquake survivors dying as aid struggles to reach Haiti. Red Cross: up to 50,000 feared dead in Haiti; Pan American Health Organization says 50,000-100,000 are dead. WFP: food supplies looted in Port-au-Prince. Naomi Klein issues Haiti disaster capitalism alert: stop them before they shock again. “Bush was responsible for destroying Haitian democracy”–Randall Robinson on Obama tapping Bush to co-chair U.S. relief efforts. NBA’s only Haitian-born player Samuel Dalembert donates $100,000 in support of relief efforts.
Jan 15, 2010,
14:49
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Diaspora
The Sound of Screaming
"The Sound of Screaming is constant,” says one survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake. The death toll rises as Haiti is crushed by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Bodies lie in the streets as people continue to cry out from underneath the rubble. With LINKS to organizations offering aid.
Jan 14, 2010,
13:19
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Diaspora
Fred Hampton's Assassination
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| Fred Hampton |
Dec. 4 marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment, shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid.
While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office and the Chicago police conspired to assassinate Fred Hampton.
By Democracy Now!
Dec 8, 2009,
11:37
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Diaspora
A (Nearly) Flawless Masculinity?: Barack Obama
As a Black man and U.S. president, Barack Obama’s body is the literal terrain in which the already competing logics of Black masculinity and presidential masculinity—both bound to popular mythology—have inevitably collided. “Barack Obama” is a performance that was surely meant for a holiday release starring Will Smith.
By Mark Anthony Neal
Nov 19, 2009,
11:09
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Diaspora
TEXT: Locked Up Abroad
On Wednesday, Sept. 23, New York community activist Kevin Powell convened a press conference on behalf of the Brooklyn families of six young people held in Antigua and Barbuda. The press conference detailed arrests, beatings by local police, and what the families say is an unfair court system treatment.
Sep 25, 2009,
13:46
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Diaspora
Haiti's Black August
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| Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
In many ways, Black August - at least in the West - begins in Haiti. It is the blackest August possible - revolution and resultant liberation from bondage.
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sep 2, 2009,
13:09
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Diaspora
Obit: Ivan Van Sertima
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| Ivan Van Sertima |
Ivan Van Sertima the Guyanese-born historian, who gained global renown with his scholarship showing African presence in the Americas before Columbus, has died.
Jun 12, 2009,
13:33
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Diaspora
Latin White Privilege
Even though White privilege and racist socioeconomic orders in Latin America are different than those found in the United States, the deconstruction of the racial divide is something needed throughout the hemisphere.
By Aisha Brown and Dedrick Muhammad
Apr 22, 2009,
22:58
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Diaspora
We Are Already In the Future! (Part 2)
The stage of society to which we are moving toward would be some kind of Peoples Democracy. Fundamentally, this is the social base of Obama’s victory, the so-called post-racial coalition.
By Amiri Baraka
Dec 5, 2008,
12:39
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Diaspora
We Are Already In The Future! (Part 1)
The very election of Obama has done more to bring some aspect of equality to the society than reams of pseudo leftist posturing. Which, all returns in, is meant merely to show that the writer is smarter than you are. But what, dreary pundits, would a McCain victory have done?
By Amiri Baraka
Dec 5, 2008,
12:01
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Diaspora
State of the Black World
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Nov 13, 2008,
13:34
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Diaspora
Re-Embrace Du Bois
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| W.E.B. Du Bois |
The NAACP, which has been in the news of late, should publicly re-embrace W.E.B. Du Bois, who was banished from the organization for his progressive views during a time of U.S. anti-Communist hysteria.
By Dolan Hubbard
Jul 16, 2008,
12:15
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Diaspora
Beyond the Last Computer
One day, the Internet will become our shared planet-sized supercomputer and individuals will become nodes on the Internet and the Internet, as we know it, will become obsolete and “disappear” into our collective memory.
By Philip Emeagwali
Jun 27, 2008,
07:59
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Diaspora
Remembering Malcolm
Malcolm X, the fiery slain champion of human rights, would have been 83 years old on May 19. Online, there exists a wealth of his images, speeches and quotes for all generations to absorb. Here is a sampling.
May 20, 2008,
09:11
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Diaspora
Africa: Produce or Perish
What will happen when Africa's oil dries up? Africa needs to cultivate abilities that will allow it to increase the value of its raw materials and to break the continent’s vicious cycle of poverty.
By Philip Emeagwali
May 20, 2008,
07:22
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Diaspora
Imperial Scribes?
When Mumia Abu-Jamal read press accounts of the resignation of Cuba's president Fidel Castro, he was struck by their tone, with ill-disguised glee at Fidel's health issues, references to him as a "dictator" and demands that Cuba import American-styled "democracy."
Mar 28, 2008,
10:51
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Diaspora
A Fake Rationale for War
Colombia invades Ecuador, kills a rebel chief in the jungle, opens his laptop and allegedly finds proof that Hugo Chavez sent the rebels $300 million, which they’re using to make a dirty bomb! Uh, where have we heard that before?
By Greg Palast
Mar 7, 2008,
11:44
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Diaspora
Castro Resigns as President
Fidel Castro has announced he is resigning as Cuban
president, ending 49 years in power. In defiance of the United States, Castro has led the island since the Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959. From DemocracyNow.org
Feb 20, 2008,
13:32
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Diaspora
Technology is Root of All Evil
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| credit: emeagwali.com |
Technology in the hands of others has been used to exploit Africa for centuries. But now it's time for Africa to grasp technology and finally embrace the modern age’s clay of wisdom and advancement.
By Philip Emeagwali
Dec 14, 2007,
08:31
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