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22 million condoms recalled in South Africa - how come?
South African Bureau of Standards was bribed to pass faulty condoms.
RISTA has taken to abstinence - possibly [...]
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–”When it comes to teaching inner-city minorities, you don’t need books and you don’t need rules… All you need is a nice white lady.”
I can’t stop laughing! Thank you Mad TV!
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This video of a Miss Teen USA pageant contestant is all over the Internet but most of the attention has focused on Miss South Carolina’s weird and stupid response to the question of why she thinks a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a map and how she believes it’s because “some people [...]
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When I first heard about the Michael Vick dog abuse case, I came out in support of Vick being punished for involvement in an illegal dogfighting setup that was found on his Virginia property. I also stated that race should not be a factor in the case, as many of Vick’s Black supporters believed [...]
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For a year, Elvira Arellano, a Mexican immigration activist and illegal immigrant, has been given sanctuary in a church, protesting her impending deportation and illuminating the political situation faced by many illegal immigrants in the US.
“From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they [...]
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The African LGBTI community has been under attack this week in Cameroon, Nigeria and in Uganda. Direland has an excellent piece on the crisis in all three countries.
August has proven to be a perilous months for gays in Nigeria and Cameroon, where large-scale arrests have taken place, and in Uganda, where gay activists have [...]
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A Glamour magazine beauty editor told a women’s luncheon of a Wall Street law firm, Cleary Gottlieb, that Black female attorneys should avoid wearing “political” hairstyles like dreadlocks or Afros, because these hairstyles are seen as unattractive and unprofessional.
To make a long story short, the Black lawyers in the audience and many in the blogosphere [...]
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This is an article I wrote that is also published over at Wiretap Magazine; Find more stuff @ Kameelahwrites
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I have been convinced that many large public schools function like factory systems. You pop in one student and with the appropriate manipulations, the necessary conveyor belt rides and some pedagogical alchemy and you get the school [...]
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After waiting 8 years, Chevron oil company is finally being brought to trial in the US over the murder of villagers in the Niger Delta in 1998 and 1999
“found evidence that CNL [Chevron Nigeria Limited] personnel were directly involved in the attacks; CNL transported the GSF [Nigerian government security forces], CNL paid the GSF; and [...]
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Press Release by Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) Thursday, 16 August 2007
In a landmark case, we, Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people assembled at the High Court of Uganda two months ago to reinforce our right to privacy, dignity, and property. There were no charges against us. We had [...]
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Leigh Raiford of CODEZ interviews revolutionary Black artist, Emory Douglas.
–For those of us born in the seventies, the post-soul generation, the artwork of Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party (1967-1979) and Revolutionary Artist (4Life), is wedged deep in our political unconscious. Our revolutionary imaginings have been fueled by Douglas’s powerful thick-lined [...]
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Two important pieces from the LGBT community in Uganda are published in the Monitor online (thanks Bazungu Bucks)
Why police are not arresting homos
Our leading gay organisations have registered at least 160 members in various places around the country despite the provisions of the criminal Penal Code Act that out law homosexual acts.
The organisations are: [...]
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We hear this phrase frequently, used almost as a principle. I have never heard anyone question it. But, thinking of the underlying assumptions and of their possible consequences, we must seriously question it. It involves the typical freedom defended by liberalism as a political philosophy.
With the fall of the socialism that truly existed were [...]
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More bell hooks on YouTube
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bell hooks
Racism
rap
America
Popular Culture
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18 men have arrested in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, on charges of sodomy. If they are found guilty the punishment is death. Even though previous guilty verdicts for sexual offences have not resulted in the death sentence, there is always a first time. As the LGBTI community in [...]
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* Jessica Stern of the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program” writes an open letter to President Thabo Mbeki on “Homophobic Violence” in South Africa
In recognition of National Women’s Day, we urge you to ensure that the criminal justice system is capable of responding sensitively, effectively, and promptly to incidents of sexual and hate-based [...]
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Today women’s day in South Africa, we remember SIZAKELE SIGASA and SALOME MASOOA who were raped, tortured and murdered on the 7th July 2007 in Soweto. We rmember all our African lesbian sisters murdered, raped and living with HIV and AIDs.
The submission of women is an essential aspect of patriarchy. [...]
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No Snow Here linked me to an article by Audre Lorde entitled There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions and was struck my one quote
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; [...]
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This is a true story.
There was this tree in the heart of Louisiana, but the tree was no ordinary tree. The tree was only allowed to offer shade to white people. Sadly, the tree was more than just a tree, it was a symbol of the legacy of racial segregation in the US [...]
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Two very important events over the next week in response to the continuing rapes and murders of lesbians in Africa.
The first will be held in Meadowlands, Soweto on Thursday the 9th August (Women’s Day) TIME: 10a.m. at Meadowlands Stadium proceeding to Meadowlands police Station where we will picket, reading of messages of solidarity and handing [...]
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This is what I would look like!
Thank you so much to Nathan from phophoto for transforming my pic into a vector portrait! Note the Barack Obama t-shirt I’m rocking… I love phophoto so much, their artistic skills are unbelievable!
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The website, GayGamer.net, was the target of a hate crime that involved flooding his site with hate speech and threatening e-mails. GayGamer was knocked offline “with a series of denial of service attacks”.
Flynn DeMarco, the sites owner had this to say, “By Friday the site, working with their host, was able to block the [...]
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Ultimately, I think it would be a great idea to have a union, despite the absolutely horrible experiences I have had working as a union organizer. It’s different when you are a member of a union I think…
The implications of a blogger’s union is fascinating, especially because bloggers and the Internet transcend national boundaries, [...]
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I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is always more to learn and I needed to focus on [...]
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Racialicious pointed me toward an awesome blog called the North Star which is “an online forum of discussion and debate maintained by black activist and justice-minded students at Yale University. By creating an easily-accessible online library of social and political commentaries, we strive to foster a community voice that calls for [...]
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The masquerade is central to Kalabari culture, dance and music. The masquerade transforms man into a spirit being born from the water that surrounds our land - the ocean, rivers, creeks and swamps - the water spirits are every where and their origins are the stories of dusk like the one below. [...]
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Damien Ugwu of the Nigerian Civil Liberties talks to me about about endemic police torture in the Nigerian justice system. CLO estimate that five people a day are being extra-judicially killed by the police. Most vulnerable are unemployed youths accused of armed robbery. Damien Ugwu explores the reasons why torture and murder are common place [...]
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Last August in NYC, seven young Black lesbians from New Jersey made news all over the country for stabbing a man for sexually harassing them. The women claim they were acting in self-defense.
Harassment of lesbians is not uncommon and right now in South Africa a rash of hate-crimes against lesbians is occurring, with [...]
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Radical artist, damali ayo, is organizing the National Day of Panhandling for Reparations on October 10, 2007.
–”NATIONAL DAY OF PANHANDLING FOR REPARATIONS is coming this Fall! October 10, 2007
People of all races across the United States will take an hour or two to collect reparations in the form of money from white Americans for the [...]
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Laura of “Hypathia’s Daughter” and “mi otro blog” wins an award for her campaign for maids rights in Peru.
First, I have to explain how the maids are treated in Peru. Unfortunately, because of our colonial inheritance, there are people here who think that some human beings were born to serve and others [...]
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Today is the first year anniversary of Kym Platts’ blog “AskThisBlack Woman” - congrats to Kym but most of all from me personally thanks for your contribution to Black Looks and for having the courage to speak out for what you believe in.
Yesterday Kym posted a piece about a game called Resident [...]