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The international conversations Black America’s not having: Reading Yvonne Bynoe from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 04 Feb 2008 9:45 am

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Came across an interesting article from nearly a year ago: author Yvonne Bynoe's Black America After Jim Crow: Still Feels Like Segregation, published on AlterNet. (They have good stuff and deserve your consideration of $upport.) For decades I've been having...

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Black History Month on the Eve of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 03 Feb 2008 10:33 am

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It's Black History Month, folks. Today, renegade though it may be to some, my focus is on the peculiarities I'm observing in this 2008 U.S. presidential election season. I'll begin with a fact that may not be obvious to some...

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Major Owens unveils Black Caucus Members’ opinion survey from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 28 Sep 2007 1:25 pm

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The Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference ends tomorrow, Saturday. Monday, Oct 1st, I plan to attend "A New Challenge to the Congressional Black Caucus", my former boss Major Owens' Library of Congress think-tank panel on the CBC and his...

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Black Women meet, and annual Congressional Black Caucus from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 28 Sep 2007 7:19 am

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It feels like everyone meets in September. The annual CBC - Congressional Black Caucus - Legislative Conference is underway through Saturday. Looking at the conference dates apparently the traditional Sunday morning prayer breakfast may no longer be fully included, though...

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Don’t bother USA with facts? Dalits: India’s own “Black” population from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 14 Jul 2007 8:39 am

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In Minneapolis in the late 80s or early 90s, along with two other persons of colour (Vincent who is Dalit and a U.S. Latina lady from St. Paul whose name I don't immediately recall), I initiated an "emergency" panel made...

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June: Caribbean American Heritage Month 2006 from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 14 Jun 2006 1:00 pm

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Props to our Caribbean cousins/sisters/brothers for Caribbean American Heritage Month 2006. Jasmyn Cannick has a good link on her site where she writes about Oakland, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee's 2005 proclamation, with a list of a few US folks of...

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Immigration: the “one size fits all” problem from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 11 Jun 2006 4:59 am

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The other day a white American man confided to me, unsolicited, how he knows a number of other white Americans who he says would sooner hire immigrants than hire Black Americans. He added he didn't think this was happening by...

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“The Israel Lobby” in London Review of Books from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 07 Jun 2006 7:06 am

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I've been told by those in the know that this piece by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt is a seminal article. It's aboutUS foreign and domestic policy toward Israel, and its other effects in the Mideast. Also in Africa which...

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Immigration through our eyes: Black & Native Americans; Diamond’s article in Intl Migration Review 1998 from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 07 May 2006 1:00 pm

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Came across an interesting reference. African-American Attitudes towards United States Immigration Policy, by Jeff Diamond in International Migration Review, volume 32, number 2; Summer 1998, pp. 451-470. Diamond goes back as far as the status of Black Americans before the...

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