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August 31, 2008
Residents were ordered to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans Sunday as another monster storm bore down on Louisiana nearly three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina wiped out entire swaths of the city.
Hurricane Gustav, which already killed more than 80 people [...]
Brian Sokol/Rapport, for The New York Times
An untouchable, or Dalit, woman in Azamgarh District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The country has 200 million Dalits, many of whom remain uneducated and poor. More Photos >
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: August 29, 2008
AZAMGARH DISTRICT, India — When Chandra Bhan Prasad visits his ancestral village in these feudal badlands of [...]
Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times
Joaquina Karitiana, with her son Rogerio, says researchers promised her tribe medicine that never arrived. More Photos >
By LARRY ROHTER
Published: June 20, 2007
KYOWÃ, Brazil — As the Karitiana Indians remember it, the first researchers to draw their blood came here in the late 1970s, shortly after the Amazon [...]
Kevin Moloney for The New York Times
Ariel Farmer, 14, left, Kyla Sharp Butte, 14, and Will Sharp Butte, 15, hang out at the Gus Stop on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
By EVELYN NIEVES
Published: June 9, 2007
ROSEBUD, S.D. — The two suicides struck the Rosebud Sioux Reservation like a random virus. No one saw [...]
Black Americans are not the only ones who suffer from the devastation that lack of access to fresh water can create, as this article on the return of water to the Pima Indians shows.
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By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: August 30, 2008
GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Ariz. — More than a hundred years ago, the Gila River, siphoned off [...]
Davie, Fla., August 27, 2005 — Winds from Hurricane Katrina knocked over this tree crushing this Mobile home. The residents had evacuated. Many Mobile homes were damaged and residents are displaced. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo
M. Kieper took this photograph of the Spinnaker Point condos in Pascagoula MS that were destroyed by surge. The partially-remaining damaged condo that [...]
Hi Blogger,
If you have not heard about this great hip hop music video for the Green Party, you should check it out. The goal is to get more younger people,
people of color, and the disenfranchised involved in politics to take back,
their country. This is not about Obama. This is about Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, [...]
Okay.
So, Obama chooses a white man as his running mate.
McCain chooses a white woman for his running mate.
Hmm.
We’ll see how this works out between now and November 4, 2008.
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McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate
J.D. Pooley/Getty Images
Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday.
Surprise Pick of Alaska’s Governor
By MICHAEL [...]
SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_obama_s_dream_1
OBAMA AVOIDS RACE ON KING’S ‘DREAM’ ANNIVERSARY
By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Fri Aug 29, 4:48 AM ET
Long before Denver, the drum roll of history began: If Barack Obama could capture the Democratic nomination for president, he would deliver the biggest speech of his life exactly 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s immortal [...]
FORMER NEBRASKA TROOPER TIED TO RACIST GROUP FIGHTS FOR JOB
AUGUST 25, 2008
LINCOLN (AP) — Attorneys for a Nebraska state trooper fired for joining a group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan have another chance to argue that he should still be on the force.
In March, the state Supreme Court listened to their arguments and [...]
