African-American News - November 29, 2010

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African-American News - November 29, 2010

Xenobia Bailey ~ Re-Possessed / Fiber Work ~ at The Fuller Craft Museum (Art Knowledge News)

The Fuller Craft Museum presents Portions of the Re-Possessed: Fiber Work by Xenobia Bailey on exhibition in Fuller Craft Museum's Great Room August 2, 2008 through March 8, 2009.

Plan for African-American cemetery in suburban NY (WSYR)

Community leaders in a suburb north of New York City plan to inventory grave sites and repair headstones at a noteworthy African-American cemetery where several black veterans are buried.

Mike Adams How I Joined a Black Sorority and Helped Fight Racism and Sexism (590ktie)

Author's Note: Please take the time to vote in the local ABC affiliate's First Amendment poll.

Analysis: Ga. Democrats fading away (Augusta Chronicle)

" Battered by defeats and bled by defections, Georgia Democrats are becoming a minority party.

Taliban Seeks Vengeance in Wake of WikiLeaks (newsweek)

Leaked U.S. Intel documents listed the names and villages of Afghan collaborators - and the Taliban is starting to retaliate. After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. Intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn't take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to "punish" any Afghan listed as having "collaborated" with the U.S. And the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province's embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.

Many in Latino and Black Community Avoid Getting Flu Shot Imperiling their Health (Hispanically Speaking)

Ita TMs flu season and as millions of Americana TMs get their flu shots there is a segment of the population that is not a ' minority communities.

History and journalism combine for epic tale (Bend Bulletin)

"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson Half a century after the Civil War set African-Americans free, another war gave them the chance finally to flee the brutal apartheid that had replaced slavery in the American South.

Alameda County juries don't reflect demographics (SFGate)

Courtroom jury pools in racially diverse Alameda County have far fewer African American and Latino members than their share of the jury-eligible population, and one reason is the county's failure to contact people who fail to report for jury duty, the American Civil Liberties Union says in a new report.

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