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Professor and Preacher Michael Eric Dyson on Hip Hop & Politics, Don Imus, the "N"-word, and Bill Cosby

From war and violence to the civil rights movement and hip hop, from Hurricane Katrina to race politics, Professor Michael Eric Dyson takes it all on. Over the past fourteen years he has written fourteen bestselling books including "Come Hell or High Water" and "Debating Race." Ebony magazine has named him as one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans. His latest book is titled "Know What I Mean? Reflections on...
Jul 18, 2007 | Story
Subway Shakedowns: Necessary Security or Unconstitutional Violation?

New York City police are now conducting random searches of subway passengers in a program of stepped-up security following the London subway and bus blasts earlier this month. Civil liberties groups say the searches are unconstitutional and ineffective. We host a debate. [includes rush transcript]
Jul 28, 2005 | Story
NYPD Arrest 181 Black Men in Queens After Cop Shot in the Leg

A New York police officer was shot in the leg with his own gun while trying to arrest a man allegedly smoking marijuana. During the following three days, police mounted a massive dragnet in the community, arresting a total of 181 black men in Queens. [includes rush transcript]
Jul 01, 2005 | Story
Public Power in the Age of Empire: Arundhati Roy on War, Resistance and the Presidency

Today we spend the hour with famed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy.
Roy was born in Shillong, India in 1959. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives, and has worked as a film designer, actor, and screenplay writer in India. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1997 Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award. It has sold six million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages...

Aug 23, 2004 | Story
An Hour With Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Leading Critic of Corporate Globalization

From Bolivia to Cancun to Miami, this fall has seen major protests against corporate globalization across the hemisphere. Today we spend the hour listening to the words of Vandana Shiva. [Includes transcript]
Nov 27, 2003 | Story
Sikh American Family Attacked in Queens, Police Call it Bias

Surinder Singh, a Sikh cab driver, his wife, two children and a cousin were attacked and beaten up in Queens last week by white male assailants who told them "Bin laden family, go back to your country."
Aug 12, 2003 | Story
Green Party Member Stopped at Airport in Maine, Barred From Flying

National Guardsmen continue to patrol the nations airports nearly two months after the September 11 attacks. Islamic,Indian and Sikh organizations report that along with the increased security at airports, there has been a dramaticincrease in so-called airport profiling–in which passengers have been asked to leave an airplane or were subjectedto intense scrutiny because of their appearance.
Nov 05, 2001 | Story
Arab, Asian Taxi Drivers Beaten and Harassed in New York and Around the World

One young Afghan man was beaten so severely in London, he is paralyzed from the neck down. An Asian man wasassaulted and had blue paint poured over him and his car.
Oct 03, 2001 | Story
A Wave of Hate Crimes Against Arab and Asian Americans Seeps the Nation: An Interview Withadam Singh, Whose Cousin Was Murdered, and 3 South Asian Women Activists

In Mesa, Ariz., Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh, was shot and killed outside his gas station Saturday "for no otherapparent reason than that he was dark-skinned and wore a turban," Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley said.
Sep 18, 2001 | Story
Sounds of the Street; Activists Mourn the Dead While Denouncing the March to War and Attacks on Muslim and Arab Americans

Racist violence against Arabs or people of Arabic descent has increased around the world. The BBC is reporting that an Afghan taxi driver has been paralyzed after an attack in London. In New York, a caller threatened to harm hundreds of students in an Islamic school. In Texas, a mosque was firebombed. In Wyoming, an angry group of shoppers chased a woman and her children from a Wal-Mart. In Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, police stopped...
Sep 17, 2001 | Story

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Professor and Preacher Michael Eric Dyson on Hip Hop & Politics, Don Imus, the "N"-word, and Bill Cosby

Subway Shakedowns: Necessary Security or Unconstitutional Violation?

NYPD Arrest 181 Black Men in Queens After Cop Shot in the Leg

Public Power in the Age of Empire: Arundhati Roy on War, Resistance and the Presidency

An Hour With Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Leading Critic of Corporate Globalization

Sikh American Family Attacked in Queens, Police Call it Bias

Green Party Member Stopped at Airport in Maine, Barred From Flying

Arab, Asian Taxi Drivers Beaten and Harassed in New York and Around the World

A Wave of Hate Crimes Against Arab and Asian Americans Seeps the Nation: An Interview Withadam Singh, Whose Cousin Was Murdered, and 3 South Asian Women Activists

Sounds of the Street; Activists Mourn the Dead While Denouncing the March to War and Attacks on Muslim and Arab Americans

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