http://globalgrind.com/discovered/justiceen-ushttp://globalgrind.com/content/41584/National-HipHop-Political-Convention-Opens SaschasMom Thousands are expected to attend the Convention, with some coming from as far as Colombia and South Korea yesterday for the opening b-boy battle. They will be discussing issues like the criminalization of youth, youth violence, the right of return on the Gulf Coast, media justice, sexism in hip-hop, economic justice, Black-Brown solidarity, global warming, liberation theology, and vote disenfranchisement.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/41584/National-HipHop-Political-Convention-Opens?sc=1#socialSaschasMom8/3/2008 8:19:08 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/41229/Fox-News-Fans-Prone-To-Shoot-Up-Churches blackspot That guy who shot up the church in Knoxville has been found to be a follower of Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and other conservative "pundits".]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/41229/Fox-News-Fans-Prone-To-Shoot-Up-Churches?sc=1#socialblackspot7/31/2008 1:45:41 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/41101/Government-Finally-Apologizes-for-Slavery Martini Pink What do YOU think about the House resolution to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow?]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/41101/Government-Finally-Apologizes-for-Slavery?sc=1#socialMartini Pink7/31/2008 4:26:20 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/41003/Marijuana-To-Be-Legalized-For-Everyone xfactor213 The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/41003/Marijuana-To-Be-Legalized-For-Everyone?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/30/2008 2:53:27 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/40724/House-of-Representatives-Discuss-Slavery-Apology xfactor213 The House is scheduled to take up a resolution (H.Res.194) this week "apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans." The non-binding resolution was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), a white Democrat who represents a majority African-American district in Memphis.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/40724/House-of-Representatives-Discuss-Slavery-Apology?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/30/2008 11:40:05 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/39764/EXCLUSIVE-TO-GLOBAL-GRIND-Nas-vs-The-Fox Big Deez Yo, these guys are on top of it. It sounded really powerful too.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/39764/EXCLUSIVE-TO-GLOBAL-GRIND-Nas-vs-The-Fox?sc=1#socialBig Deez7/23/2008 4:40:32 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/39405/Have-things-changed-10-years-after-Texas-lynching Brother Jesse HOUSTON (FinalCall.com) - It was June 7 a decade ago that James Byrd, Jr. was tied to the back of a truck and dragged to his death in the east Texas town of Jasper. The incident sparked coast to coast outrage and 10 years later during national commemorative events the question being posed: How much has racism in America changed? “I don’t see any progress made 10 years since the murder of my brother,” said Clara Byrd Taylor to The Final Call. “The present climate and atmosphere in this country is such that this can happen again and again. Racism is still everywhere.”]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/39405/Have-things-changed-10-years-after-Texas-lynching?sc=1#socialBrother Jesse7/22/2008 11:53:15 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38401/WAKE-UP-Bush-Still-Hating-On-Medicare kiki2007 Luckily, there is a system of checks and balances in the U.S. government. Yesterday, U.S. Congress voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of a bill to keep government payments from being slashed for doctors who treat the elderly under the popular Medicare. Even as his presidency comes to an end, he's doing all he can to make the lives of regular folk hard.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38401/WAKE-UP-Bush-Still-Hating-On-Medicare?sc=1#socialkiki20077/16/2008 10:03:02 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38194/Russell-Simmons-Takes-Hip-Hop-to-the-Polls verses Political collabo urges youth to vote]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38194/Russell-Simmons-Takes-Hip-Hop-to-the-Polls?sc=1#socialverses7/15/2008 6:49:01 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38153/NYPDs-Rap-Attack SaschasMom Rebel Diaz from Chicago and their hip-hop politics didn't sit so well with the cops in the Bronx. One minute they were helping some street vendors, the next they were at the 41st precinct. "If Hip Hop organized, the whole world would be in trouble."]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38153/NYPDs-Rap-Attack?sc=1#socialSaschasMom7/15/2008 9:19:51 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37963/Black-in-America-Documentary CubanChica Running on her integrity as a tell-it-like-it-is journalist, CNN special correspondent and anchor Soledad O’Brien did not waver on the assignment to lead what has become one of the network’s most groundbreaking films “Black in America” airing July 23-24 at 9 p.m. In this exclusive interview with Michigan Chronicle senior editor Bankole Thompson, O’Brien, whose mother is Black and father is White, talks about the process involved in producing a documentary that focuses on the lives of Blacks.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37963/Black-in-America-Documentary?sc=1#socialCubanChica7/16/2008 11:50:59 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37953/Filmmaker-sparks-discussion kiambuX Article talks about the upcoming film "Ink Spot on Canvas" and the need to save our community. "Why are Black Men killing each other" was a community forum put together by director Kobie' Kiambu Parker. The forum is featured in the upcoming film and was the last shoot in a project spanning over two years.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37953/Filmmaker-sparks-discussion?sc=1#socialkiambuX7/14/2008 6:01:23 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37769/Black-Ohioans-Finally-Get-Public-Water chachacha Seriously!?!??!Sixty-seven residents in the majority black neighborhood of Coal Run in Ohio have just been awarded a total of $11 million by a federal jury, which found that the local government had denied them public water service because the were black. Each plaintiff was awarded between $15,000 and $300,000 to cover monetary loss and pain and suffering that occurred between 1956 and 2003, when the town finally received public water. Prior to 2003, residents were forced to dig wells, collect rain water or haul water for cisterns in order to cook, clean and bathe.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37769/Black-Ohioans-Finally-Get-Public-Water?sc=1#socialchachacha7/14/2008 4:15:06 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37450/Racism-On-The-Web-Youre-Part-Of-The-Problem CubanChica I was not going to talk about this stuff any more. But Louis Gray’s post on the “racist underbelly” of the web struck a deep chord. He describes how two black bloggers, Wayne Sutton and Corvida, had a live Yahoo video chat to discuss Loren Feldman and the Tech Nigga incident, and the anonymous overtly racist chatter in the video’s text chat room.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37450/Racism-On-The-Web-Youre-Part-Of-The-Problem?sc=1#socialCubanChica7/11/2008 12:53:02 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37127/The-AMA-Apologizes-for-Racial-Disparities-in-Medicine Ryan517 Today the AMA offers a formal apology for its Racist policies but for many Black patients extending the olive branch comes 40 years too late.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37127/The-AMA-Apologizes-for-Racial-Disparities-in-Medicine?sc=1#socialRyan5177/10/2008 3:53:35 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37056/jesse-disses-obama Stryker Maybe there is just a tad bit of jealosly going on here now that Barack Obama’s presidency is a very strong possibilty. Jesse Jackson seems like such a hyprocrite when he spoke so glowingly in the media about Barack. Now he will have to grovel to get back in good graces with Barack. Not happening. [...]]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37056/jesse-disses-obama?sc=1#socialStryker7/9/2008 8:12:21 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36569/Too-Sense-White-Supremacists-for-Obama Stryker white supremesits hopeful obama win will spark a different type of white awareness]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36569/Too-Sense-White-Supremacists-for-Obama?sc=1#socialStryker7/8/2008 3:03:47 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36015/Rescued-Hostages-Return-To-United-States Craig Redman Three Americans held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than five years were to undergo medical tests Thursday after returning to the U.S. late Wednesday following a daring rescue.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36015/Rescued-Hostages-Return-To-United-States?sc=1#socialCraig Redman7/3/2008 2:40:16 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35846/Sean-Bell-Case-Headed-Back-To-Court Craig Redman A New York judge has called upon all representatives involved in the 2006 shooting of Sean Bell to return to court this month to settle the wrongful death suit filed by his fiancée.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35846/Sean-Bell-Case-Headed-Back-To-Court?sc=1#socialCraig Redman7/2/2008 2:37:57 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35798/New-evidence-collected-in-1946-lynching-case Craig Redman State and federal investigators said Tuesday that they spent the past two days gathering evidence in the last documented mass lynching in the United States: a grisly slaying of four people that has remained unsolved for more than six decades. On July 25, 1946, two black sharecropper couples were shot hundreds of times and the unborn baby of one of the women cut out with a knife at the Moore's Ford Bridge.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35798/New-evidence-collected-in-1946-lynching-case?sc=1#socialCraig Redman7/8/2008 11:03:03 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35566/Black-Power-No-Not-at-All BrownSugar28 One of the things I’ve enjoyed about this election cycle is the way it has busted all of the myths that many liberals cling to so dearly: the myth of Clinton’s “blackness,” the myth that White feminists care about all women and not just White women and the myth that liberals aren’t as racist as republicans]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35566/Black-Power-No-Not-at-All?sc=1#socialBrownSugar287/1/2008 2:58:41 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35389/Africa-under-pressure-to-condemn-Mugabe GG Content African leaders meeting at a summit in Egypt Monday are coming under increasing pressure to reject the results of Zimbabwe's widely discredited presidential runoff.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35389/Africa-under-pressure-to-condemn-Mugabe?sc=1#socialGG Content6/30/2008 4:29:38 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35302/Mugabe-sworn-in-after-disputed-Zimbabwean-election xfactor213 President Robert Mugabe was sworn in Sunday after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared he overwhelmingly won the country's disputed runoff election.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35302/Mugabe-sworn-in-after-disputed-Zimbabwean-election?sc=1#socialxfactor2136/30/2008 5:08:03 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35161/Russell-Simmons-Launches-Charity-Auction-Online Ketchums Russell Simmons Rush Philanthropic organization is gearing up for its famed Art For Life East Hampton annual benefit gala, and will be expanding its charitable outreach this year with its first ever online auction.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35161/Russell-Simmons-Launches-Charity-Auction-Online?sc=1#socialKetchums7/1/2008 3:02:37 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35038/Im-Not-Feeling-You-Supreme-Court-Decision-Overturning Martini Pink Handgun/Smangun...]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35038/Im-Not-Feeling-You-Supreme-Court-Decision-Overturning?sc=1#socialMartini Pink7/2/2008 2:36:10 PM