Groundbreaking Southern Worker now available online
The Southern Worker, a newspaper published by the Communist Party in Birmingham and Chattanooga from 1930-37, can now be found online.
Do wind farms really cause global warming?
If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do not add to climate change.
After “slut” diatribe, can Limbaugh show survive, and should it?
Is it OK for a major radio host, Rush Limbaugh, to use the public airwaves for character assassination?
Anonymous: A glimpse behind the masks
n a new video released by politically active hacking collective Anonymous, the group has declared war on the U.S. government.
Is Ben & Jerry’s fortune cookie ice cream insulting or not?
Some doubt the fortune-cookie ice cream is really a problem, but others say it reflects how little most Americans know about Asian Americans.
Ben & Jerry's apologizes for "Taste the Lin-sanity" ice cream
It seems too many "clever" media and advertisers think the way to respond to Asian Americans is with a joke, an ethnic stereotype or a plain old slur.
Senate hopeful Hoekstra slammed for racist Super Bowl ad
Racism and far-right politics go hand-in-hand. With Michigan Senate hopeful Pete Hoekstra's Super Bowl ad, the whole nation got to see it for themselves.
Will Facebook get a ‘like’ in China?
Facebook wants to reach China's Internet population, but critics and analysts are doubtful of its prospects there.
Fighting for immigrant rights in Alabama: a video interview
Last June Alabama passed one of the most draconian anti-immigrant laws in the country. Immigrant rights activists describe it as Arizona's bitter law on steroids.
FBI wants to follow people on Facebook and Twitter
The FBI is planning on monitoring all 'publicly available data' on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, through a new system it wants to develop.
