QUEENS (CBS/AP) ― Three police officers went on trial Monday in the death of an unarmed man killed in a barrage of 50 bullets on his wedding day. Lawyers for the officers didn’t dispute the degree of firepower in the now-infamous killing of 23-year-old Sean Bell.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
UN Launches Campaign to End Violence against Women
At least one out of every three women in the world is likely to be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime and one in five women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape. Trafficking, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, dowry murder, honour killings and female infanticide are other aspects of the problem….
Obamarama: Is it a Movement? Or is it Marketing?
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce Dixon
Is the Barack Obama campaign actually what it claims to be – the heir to and continuation of an historic and broad-based transformative movement for social change? What exactly are the differences between a social movement, a political candidacy, and a marketing campaign? How do we begin to unravel how much of Obamarama is movement and how much is marketing, and where will the promised and hoped-for “change” actually come from, if it comes at all?