Discussing the Diaspora as seen through an internal Black lens
February 17th, 2010
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
In 1997 the Pigford v. Glickman class action lawsuit was filed against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging racial discrimination in providing farm loans to African Americans from 1983 and 1997. The lawsuit originally ended with a 1999 settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay [...]
Tags: Black Farmers
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February 6th, 2010
For last months numbers go here.
The following is a press release from the Bureau of Labor statistics:
Friday, February 5, 2010
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — January 2010
The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm
payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-20,000), the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction and [...]
Tags: Unemployment, unemployment rate
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January 27th, 2010
Y’all remember this gem from the post Katrina coverage?
It’s hard to read the text in this upload of the picture; but next to the Black man he is described as “looting a grocery store”, while the whites are described as “finding bread and soda from a grocery store”; giving us the juxtaposition of Black [...]
Tags: earthquake, Haiti, katrina, loot, looting, looting in natural disaster
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