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“Time for an Awakening” for Sunday 12/24/2017 at 7:00 PM (EST) 6:00 PM (CST) guest was Author, Prof. of Political Science and Director of African American Studies at the University of San Francisco, Prof. James Lance Taylor. The discussion centered on the claim that the 60’s Civil Rights Leaders intentionally made the wrong decision in going after social issues instead of moving to improve the community’s economic problems, along with related topics with our guest.
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Time for an Awakening with guest Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
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“Time for an Awakening” for Sunday 7/30/2017 at 7:00 PM guest was Activist, Organizer, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. The Chairman of Prisoners of Conscience Committee/ P.O.C.C, and Black Panther Party Cubs/B.P.P.C, joined us in conversation on issues that affect the Black Community.
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Most Afro-Latinos In America Identify As White Not Black – Study
A new study from the Pew Research Center is shedding light on the way some U.S. Afro-Latinos identify, and it may surprise you.
According to the survey, of the 24 percent of Latinos in the country who are Afro-Latino, just 18 percent of them identified their race as “Black.” In fact, researchers found that 39 percent of these African-descended Latinos called their race “white,” significantly higher than those who said “Hispanic,” 24 percent, “mixed,” 9 percent, and “American Indian,” 4 percent.
The findings reflect the complexity of Latino identity, which reflects a long history of indigenous, African, Asian and European mixing across the region under Spanish and Portuguese colonialism.
While the study might seem as evidence of Latinos’ push to whiteness as well as the community’s anti-blackness, it reveals as much, or as little, as it doesn’t. Researchers did not, for instance, share what questions were asked, how they were posed or to whom they were asked.
Researchers did, however, identify that most Afro-Latinos in the U.S. live in the South and/or on the East Coast, have Caribbean roots and have lower household incomes and education attainment than other U.S. Latinos, things we’ve known for a long, long time.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Black Celebrities Must “Be Fearless and Relentless in Speaking Up” Against Trump
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Inset: Kareem Abdul-JabbarNever before in modern history have we had a president-elect so ill-informed, ill-tempered, irrational and ill-equipped to deal with the major issues that face this country. The counterintuitive election of Donald Trump has left a lot of political pundits from both parties throwing up their hands, saying, “All we can do is hope for the best.” But as Mark Wahlberg’s character in Deepwater Horizon warns the British Petroleum executives ignoring the oil platform’s numerous problems right before it bursts into flames: “Hope is not a strategy.” And based on the political appointments and nominations Trump has recently made, people of color have little reason to be hopeful. That’s why it’s especially important over the next four years that black celebrities step up and take stances to give voice to those in the black community who will not be heard by the incoming administration. Given that the country is in the throes of a civil rights backlash that threatens to undo the progress we’ve fought so hard to attain, we have to be fearless and relentless in speaking up at every opportunity.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/black-celebrities-speaking-donald-trump-be-relentless-964908
