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Michaelann Land
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Michaelann Land is the political and personal blog of a longtime community activist in Springfield Massachusetts. It tracks homelessness, poverty and environmental news in Western Mass and elsewhere, with random bursts of poetry and humor.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested for disorderly conduct in own home!
How can one of America's most influential citizens wind up getting arrested for disorderly contact in his own home?Could being Black have anything to do with it? Or is it at least partly because a police officer didn't think he got the respect he d...
Your brain on prejudice
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Controversial furniture commercial talks about race
You've GOT to watch this video. Check your first reactions, think about what you think it means, think about whether or not you think it's racist, and then watch the follow-up video by the video's maker. I will only say, at this moment before you'...
Black youth beaten, then arrested! Will there be justice for Jason?
Picture this: you're a pre-med student sitting in your UMass dorm room with a couple of friends when one friend looks out the window and sees two white guys looking in. One white guy says he wants to be "friends" with your female friend; when you go...
Three men arrested for the arson of a black church. Now what?
Last week arrests were made in the day after the presidential election burning of the predominantly African-American Macedonia Church of God in Christ. Benjamin F. Haskell, 22; Michael F. Jacques, 24; and Thomas A. Gleason Jr., 21, all of Springf...
Leonard Peltier beaten in prison - you can help
Thirty years have passed since the conviction of Leonard Peltier for the murder of two FBI agents, and I worry that some people may not even know who he is.The two agents were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975, at the height of the ...
