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Detroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black

October 21, 2009 By John Henry

Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.

Stores pull immigrant-slurring Halloween costume after protests

October 21, 2009

After a nationwide campaign by immigrant advocacy groups calling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume tasteless and offensive, several major retail stores and Web sites have pulled it from their racks.

Rush Limbaugh ejected!

October 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio talk show host known for his racially charged comments, has been removed from a potential group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.

Caster Semenya: Who’s really confused about gender?

August 24, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

It's Kafka-esque. A small number of specialists have been ordered to determine if South Africa's international champion in the women's 800 meter race, Caster Semenya, is really a woman. After her blazing victory and complaints from...

Port Chicago disaster remembered

July 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.