Pictured above: Iraqi youths walk past the burning wreckage of a suicide car bomb after
it went off, killing its driver in Baghdad, Jan. 3, 2005. Insurgents
killed 17 Iraqi police and National Guards on Monday in another bloody
spree of ambushes, bombings and suicide attacks aimed at wrecking Iraq's Jan. 30 national election. [more]
Election Protest Today in DC: Defend Your Democracy!The
Truth is Marching On from Selma to Palm Beach to Columbus to
Washington, DC Upper Senate Park near the Capitol Building January 6,
2005 at 10 AM [more]
Attention Lawyers in New
Mexico: Black Man is in need of legal services after Hobbs Police Beating. More information & e-mail is [here]
Free speech in Israel only free for Jews not Arabs [more]
Cynthia McKinney, champion of poor fights on [more]
Settlement reached in shooting at Appalachian School of Law [more]
Cummings finishes term as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus [more]
Haiti marked its 201st year of independence on Jan. 1, amidst protests
and calls by the country's interim leaders for an end to "division" and
"hatred." [more]
Haitian-Born U.S. Marine Facing Deportation [more]
Ralph Nader:One of the reasons I ran is because I didn't trust the Democrats to
even know how to get the Bush people out of the White House. They've
been losing and losing. They lost to Gingrich in the Congress. They
lost major governorships and state legislatures. And then they turn
around and say to the liberals, the Democratic apparatchiks say: "Just
trust us. We're going to beat Bush this time, even though we're not
going to do anything different. We're not going to have a different
agenda. We're not going to make a deliberate effort to register 9
million African-American voters, 90% of whom would vote for the
Democrats, especially in the swing states, who would be decisive." It
was a disaster for the Democrats.[more]
Black Man gets 178 years for transmitting AIDS-causing virus [more]
Dressed alike, polite alike - but not treated alike [more
Chappelle says Fox Network
is Racist - Mr. CHAPPELLE: I flew out there for the meeting [Fox]. And
if you can imagine, I was the only black person in the room. And they
basically told me that, `We'll pick up the show, but we want more white
characters on it' for no other reason than they thought that it would
give the show a more "universal appeal." And so I quit.
SIMON: Then and there, in California, you quit.
Mr. CHAPPELLE: We quit. After the meeting.
SIMON: Did you accuse them of racism?
Mr. CHAPPELLE: Absolutely.
It was racist. Look, I don't think these people sit around their house
and call--call black people niggers and all this kind of thing, but the
idea that unless I have white people around me on my show, that it's
unwatchable or doesn't have a universal appeal is racist. You know,
they don't--they don't make them put black people on "Friends," or they
don't make them put black people on "Seinfeld." But all of a sudden I
get in the room, and it's like, `Well, where's all the white people?' 60 Minutes Wednesday CBS, December 29, 2004. Originally shown on October 20, 2004
