From CNN: Washington — President Barack Obama plans to meet Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — their first face-to-face since the governor signed the state’s controversial immigration reform law. The president has called the Arizona law misguided. For her part, Brewer made clear Tuesday she’s not worried about a potential legal challenge from the […]
From The Root.com: At last week’s immigration march on Washington, tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied around the Capitol Building, calling for legislation that would afford legal status to the millions of illegal immigrants living and working within the United States. While official crowd estimates for such events are notoriously unreliable, the New […]
From MSNBC: WASHINGTON – White and Latino Americans are deeply divided over immigration, their allegiances to the nation’s political parties and their opinions about President Barack Obama, according to a new NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll. And in the wake of Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law, the survey suggests that Republicans could get an immediate political boost, but […]
From The Huffington Post: A second-grader stole the show today, even as U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon held a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House. While the two Presidents spoke about the need for immigration reform and about concerns over Arizona’s harsh new law — without saying […]
From NewsTimes.com: DANBURY — He is a civil rights leaders, a self-described “agitator” who inspires passions among both those who support the causes he advocates and those who oppose them. But before the Rev. Al Sharpton was a national figure, he was a preacher, delivering his first sermon in a Brooklyn church at the age of […]
From the Huffington Post: Arizona’s new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state’s new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of “crime.” Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, […]
From ThinkProgress.com: Arizona, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has been a cop for 52 years, says the controversial immigration law will definitely lead to racial profiling. He told local TV station KGUN9 that the law is “racist,” “digusting,” and “unnecessary,” and he won’t enforce it. While the law may not explicitly mandate profiling, Dupnik […]
From NYDailyNews.com: New York activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, compared Arizona’s new immigration law to apartheid, Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South – and vowed to shut it down with mass protests. “We will bring Freedom Walkers to Arizona just like Freedom Riders went to the deep south 50 years ago,” Sharpton said […]
TMZ is reporting that rapper DMX’s upcoming “gospel rap extravaganza” concert at an Arizona high school has been canceled three days before it was set to go off … and it’s all because the school just realized the arrest-plagued rapper was involved. TMZ spoke to the pastor of the church the concert was supposed to […]
VIA: BET.com DMX is taking the gospel to the next level. X (born Earl Simmons) is set to perform at his church, Morning Star Sanctified Church in Glendale, Arizona for a “Gospel Rap Extravaganza” this weekend (March 6). Pastor Barbara King confirmed to TMZ.com that Simmons, who’s been a member of Sanctified for the past eight […]
