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Hip-Hop for Dogs: The Worst Dog Hip-Hop Book Ever?

If you like your music blog experiences to be timely and relevant, I suggest you stop reading now. This piece is neither. It concerns a book from five years ago that's as inconsequential now as the day it was published. This book hasn't dropped a track on Soundcloud, and it's not in a Twitter fight ... More >>

Pump the Brakes! This is About Health, Not Attacking or Supporting Soda Sizes

There's plenty of shit to dislike as well as like about the two parties involved in the lawsuit over the soda-size restriction set to go into effect in March. In the eyes of many New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come off as an obsessive control-freak during his three terms as mayor. So, whe ... More >>

Rightbloggers Love Mitt Romney Since He Pissed Off Black People

Mitt Romney gave a speech at the NAACP promising to overturn "Obamacare," and got booed. Then he went to Montana and said the black people booed him because they wanted "free stuff." Rightbloggers hadn't been too enthusiastic about Romney before, suspecting that the father of Romneycare was not a t ... More >>

BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Passes Same-Sex Marriage Equality Resolution

Another Saturday, another national group of brown people proves Toure right by being homophobic passes a same-sex marriage equality resolution. LULAC, the League of United Latino American Citizens, passed a resolution at their annual convention today in suport of equal marriage rights for same-sex ... More >>

How Will Rodney King's Death Affect Today's Stop and Frisk March?

The reminder of police brutality couldn't be clearer, the timing couldn't be more creepy: as many New Yorkers prepare to join the NAACP's Silent March to End Stop and Frisk, Rodney King was declared dead. King, arguably the most famous American victim of police brutality, has had a very difficult ... More >>

So Why Is Stop and Frisk a Gay Issue? The Voice Discusses with Michelangelo Signorile on Sirius [AUDIO]

Over the past couple of years, we've had the chance to report about stop and frisk, the controversial NYPD practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of black and Latino young men each year. We've also gotten to report about the fight for gay equal rights on a number of fronts. The two previously di ... More >>

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall

NYCLU To Unveil Phone Application That Allows New Yorkers To Track Questionable NYPD Stops

The New York Civil Liberties Union today is unveiling a new phone application said to help New Yorkers keep tabs on illegal police stops. The application, developed by consultant Jason Van Anden, allows you to record a stop and frisk in progress, automatically send the video to the civil liberties ... More >>

The Stonewall Stop and Frisk Summit - Or, Al Sharpton, Chris Quinn and the NAACP Walk Into a (Gay) Bar...

An historic coalition of traditional race-oriented civil rights organizations, labor unions, and LGBT groups met yesterday at the Stonewall Inn to endorse the upcoming SIlent March to End Stop and Frisk on Father's Day, June 17. The "press conference" featured an impressive roster of speakers -- inc ... More >>

Gay Inc Takes On Stop and Frisk, the NAACP Goes to the Stonewall Inn, and Other Signs of the "Black/Gay Divide"

So, the promised fallout between blacks and gays continues! Four weeks after President Obama came out for same-sex marriage, today will see one of the most significant signs of a new alliance between traditional race-based civil rights groups and the current wave of LGBT oriented civil rights group ... More >>

The Obama Effect: From the NAACP to 50 Cent, Black Leaders Back Gay Marriage

It's fair to call it the Obama Effect: leaders in the black community, old and young, political and cultural, are coming out of the closet to back same-sex marriage. And they are a motley crew, from the legacy NAACP, to the rapper 50 Cent, who just a couple years ago suggested that if you're a man " ... More >>

George Zimmerman Hit With Second-Degree Murder Charge In Death Of Trayvon Martin

A special prosecutor in Florida announced tonight that wannabe cop George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen fatally shot in February."Forty-five days after Trayvon Martin's life came to a violent end, the wheels of justice have final ... More >>

NYPD Officers Injured In Brooklyn Shootout; Two Arrested in Tulsa; Easter Parade Comes To Fifth Avenue

Four police officers were injured in Sheepshead Bay early this morning in a shootout with a man who had shut himself after a dispute with moving company employees. The officers -- two of whom were shot in the calf, one who was shot in the thigh and ankle and another whose face was grazed -- were not ... More >>

Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change, on the Collapsed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Facebook​Earlier this year, we wrote about how a bevy of civil rights groups like GLADD and the NAACP supported, inexplicably from our point of view, the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. That deal fell apart yesterday, and the telecoms will not be combining forces after all. One civil rights group ... More >>

Report: As Many As 40K Votes Went Uncounted in 2010 New York State Elections

According to a damning new report from the Democracy Program at NYU's Brennan Center for Justice, thousands of New York votes were voided in the 2010 elections because people were confused by the optical scan voting machine's instructions. The study says that across New York State, 20,000 votes for ... More >>

Knock Me a Kiss Does Divorce Harlem Renaissance-Style

It's love gone wrong in the W.E.B. Du Bois family

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

Rightbloggers on Shirley Sherrod: "You Fucked up -- You Trusted Us!"

You may have heard something about former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod last week. She's the civil-rights veteran who got forced out of her job after rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart released a video of her remarks before the NAACP, edited to make her look anti-white. You may also have heard ... More >>

NAACP Denounces Tea Party Racism; Sarah Palin Says Charge Is "Appalling"

​Yesterday, at the 101st annual convention of the NAACP, the group passed a resolution condemning what they call "rampant racism" in the Tea Party movement and reprimanding the use of racist epithets in Tea Party opposition to Barack Obama.

19 NYC High Schools Were Illegally Closed, Judge Rules; Mike Bloomberg, Joel Klein Get Smacked Down

A judge ruled today that New York City's Department of Education illegally closed 19 high schools earlier this year. Several news outlets are reporting the breaking decision (Post, WABC). The move to close the schools earlier this year was contentious and included a protest in front of Mayor Bloomb ... More >>

Jersey Teen Arrested for Racist WalMart Announcement

​A 16-year-old boy who police say used the courtesy phone at a Jersey Walmart to announce "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now." has been arrested and charged with harassment and bias intimidation, according to local officials who spoke to the AP. Gloucester Cou ... More >>

Disney's Princess and the Frog Can't Escape the Ghetto

Staten Island Town Brawl Goes Pretty Much As You Would Expect

Local tea party people warned in advance that Monday's Staten Island health care town brawl with Congressman Michael McMahon would be lively. And voila -- "Health care reform foes dominate meeting with Staten Island congressman," writes the Staten Island Advance. The peeps seem to have gone for the ... More >>

Clip Job: NAACP Pickets Howard Johnson in the Village

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 9, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 29NAACP Pickets Howard JohnsonThe Chelsea-Greenwich Village Branch of the NAACP last weekend began picketing the Howard Johnson Restaurant at 415 Sixth Avenue, charging it with discriminatory hiring practices. The char ... More >>

Was Staten Island Pol's Cartoon Racist? You Be The Judge!

Artist's rendering. It's too bad no one is letting us see the allegedly racist email cartoon that Salvatore Ballarino, a member of Staten Island's Community Education Council appointed by borough president James Molinaro, is reported to have forwarded to colleagues. True, the comic strip sounds ba ... More >>

Bloomberg's Cops Illegally Cuffing Kids Under 16?

New report shows New York police arresting schoolchildren for non-crimes

To Surname, With Love

Why Mexicans have more last names than you do

Just Say No

Ms. Rosa Parks's great refusal as an exemplary tactic for the age of online consumption

New York Times v. Janice Rogers Brown

Black woman nominated to a high federal appellate court is still scandalized

Film

Outcast Ballots

Evil, mayhem strike early in the voting for 2004

Some of His Best Friends Are Green

Ebonics! Weird Names! $500 Shoes!

Shrill Bill Cosby and the speech that shocked black America

Split Decision

A muddled doc examines the fight for school desegregation

Mike Wallace, the Redeemer

CBS's 60 Minutes takes the case, and judge Charles Pickering gets his reputation back

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

Old-school: Looking back on the civil rights movement

Blacked Out

Hip-Hop and R&B Artists MIA in Music Industry Struggle

Rescuing Martin Luther King Jr.

A Craving for Equal Justice

What’s Next for the Left?

Politics Beyond Rhetoric

Supreme Court Ruling:
Real Time for Little Crime

Justices Put Average Citizens at Risk of Arrest

Who Will Succeed Jesse Jackson?

'We Are Not a Monolithic People'

Gang Rape in Sudan

'They Came One After Another'

NAACP, ACLU File Suit Over Florida Election

Plaintiffs Seek End of Punch-Card Ballots

Features

African Americans in Florida Continue Reports of Discrimination at Polls

Recounts Don't Matter If People Aren't Allowed to Vote

NY Mirror

Sports

Disobedience Training

Mayor Taunts City and a Coalition Forms

Secrets and Lies

The Fall Sitcom To Watch Is the One You're Supposed To Hate