September 30, 2010 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from Colorlines.com
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Left Out of the Gulf’s Recovery, Black and Brown Workers Seek Unity Keilen Williams spent his life trying to make a living as a shrimper. With the industry collapsed, and no jobs to be found, he can’t figure out who to blame. Scapegoating politicians and profiteering capitalists are telling him and other workers to blame each other. |
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Bishop Eddie Long and the Lessons of Self-Hate The megachurch pastor’s sex scandal tells us a great deal about the relationship between internal and external hate. |
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