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As I woke up this morning to images of a tearful Amanda Knox on The Early Show, my heart went out to her….initially. I’m prejudiced, in her favor, because she is a college student, and I am a college professor. She could have been any number of fresh-faced, intelligent young white girls I have taught over the years. Therefore, I felt sympathy for Knox and her distraught family. The Early Show report suggested a number of improprieties in the Italian system of justice, suggesting that if Knox wer… Continue

"October 16th" is one of the few films which examines the affect of the war in Iraq on African Americans. Independent filmmaker Keith Robinson,www.Orangepealmedia.org, discusses his award-winning film as well as the issues confronting independent filmmakers today on DMBF Radio, Wed. 2/18 at 7 pm. In addition, there will be a free screening of "October 16th" on Wed. 2/25 at 12:30 pm at Nassau Community College, the College Center Multipurpose Room, One Education Drive, Garden City, NY 11553.

Dr. KING SPECIAL: A DREAM REALIZED OR STILL DEFERRED?
Has Dr. King’s dream of an integrated society, with equal opportunity for all, been realized?
Many are suggesting that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency has inaugurated a "post-racial" America in which racism, as we kn… Continue

Host Marcia McNair welcomes progressive poet extraordinaire, PATTI TANA. Tana is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College and Associate Editor of Long Island Quarterly. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Make Your Way Across This Bridge: New & Selected Writings (Whittier Publications, 2003); and This is Why You Flew Ten Thousand Miles (Whittier Publications, 2006); and the editor of a new anthology of poems by sixty-three poets: Songs of Seasoned Women (Quadr… Continue