This is a new Sunday tradition that I have begun in the quickhits section of the wonky (but oh so luvable) blog OpenLeft. Stop on by, or just feel free to see the amazing selections this week over the little flippy floppy area.
This New Sunday tradition on the QuickHits sections covers a glimpse into the the world of political blogging and/or other news sources from people of color communities:
Asian Nation takes a much needed look into affirmative action and the asian american community.
Daisy Hernandez of ColorLines Magazine explores media consumption habits in communities of color in "Can You iChat Social Change?"
One of my Favorite Activists, Keith Boykin, covers the LGBT Presidential Forum in The Big Gay Debate
BlackProf has two really insightful posts. One on the stereotyping of African-American communities being de-facto homophobic and another titled "Fear of a Black Planet – Correction, 'Brown Nation'"
Perrspectives offers a liberal counter argument to the bogus conservative talking point of 'the first Hispanic-American attorney general -- a minority' is 'under fire by white liberal racists in the Senate.'"
oh... sister pplllleeeeaaassseee.
African American Opinion, following a brutal attack against a South Florida woman and her son, provokes a debate in "HAS THE TIME COME FOR WOMEN TO RIOT?"
VivirLatino chills you to the bone in reporting the most recent horror of racist immigration policies in "Deporting U.S. Citizens"
Feministing covers the shocking reality of Native American Womens' ordeals in "Native American women, domestic violence and Congress."