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Online campaign targets Murdoch on Fox racism

November 12, 2009 By Susan Webb

A campaign by ColorOfChange.org is targeting Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch for backing race-baiting attacks on President Obama by Fox's Glenn Beck.

Lou Dobbs quits CNN

November 12, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

On Tuesday, Nov. 11th, Lou Dobbs announced his intention to leave CNN "effective immediately."

Justices review life terms for teen offenders

November 10, 2009

A majority on the Supreme Court appeared to signal changing the use of life prison terms without parole for teenagers whose crimes do not involve a murder.

Obama to sign hate crimes bill

October 28, 2009

Eleven years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder because he was gay, President Barack Obama will sign the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law this afternoon.

‘District 9’ — profoundly racist

October 23, 2009 By John Woodford

What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."