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Race, Ethnicity, Equality

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Monday, October 18, 2004

Housing, jobs, the war in Iraq. Minority voters care about the same issues as everyone else, and then some. While Bush is appealing en Español to Latino voters, Senator Kerry is counting on black voters to give him the winning margin.

Rudin Awakening

Ken Rudin, political director for National Public Radio, reviews the weekend in politics
» Ken Rudin bio

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Take the A Train, Write a Libretto

Lawrence Feeney, producer of The A Train plays, is inspired by the subway
» http://www.theatrainplays.com/home/ and Natalie Douglas performer in "The A Train Plays" says making music is fun on the A train
» Natalie Douglas

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30 Issues: Race, Ethnicity, Equality

Debra Dickerson, journalist and author, The End of Blackness (Pantheon Books, 2004) An American Story (Pantheon Books 2000)
» DebraDickerson.com and E.R. Shipp, Columnist for the New York Daily News,
» and Ruben Navarrette, Jr., syndicated columnist, regular contributor to NPR's morning edition ...

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30 issues: Race, Ethnicity, Equality

Housing, jobs, the war in Iraq. Minority voters care about the same issues as everyone else--and then some. While Bush is appealing en Español to Latino voters, Senator Kerry is counting on black voters to give him the winning margin.

Today three eminent thinkers on matters of concern to minority ...

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feedback: race, ethnicity, equality

Whether affirmative action is a "dead issue" among people of color is not the issue. Disennfranchisement, lack of empowerment, are issues that resonate among people of color which indeed are important to all Americans.

Removal of various self help programs from head start to legal aid are all being chiseled away incrementally by Bush.

While two of your radio participants may feel that issues of "blackness" are no longer important, the Republicans tried to pay friends of mine to sit in the Republican Convention to show there were indeed black faces.
-JA

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