April 2012 Blog Posts (13)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Accused murderer of Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman almost certainly will eventually face a jury. And what if that jury is all white? A recent Duke University study showed that all white juries in Florida were more likely to convict a black defendant than mixed ethnic juries. Though Zimmerman isn’t…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

As President of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, social commentator, and longtime critic of many of the Los Angeles Police Department’s racial practices, the invitation I got three years ago was unprecedented. Then Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton called and asked me to be his special…

The Hutchinson Report

Hutchinson Report Launches Change the Channel Challenge to ABC's “The Bachelor” Producers for show's Lily White Male Bachelors

Los Angeles, CA (The Hutchinson Report Townhall of the Air) - Political analyst and Hutchinson Report host Earl Ofari Hutchinson will challenge the producers of…

The Hutchinson Report Townhall of the Air

The Hutchinson Report Townhall of the Air on Pacifica Network KPFK Radio 90.7 FM and streamed on kpfk.org, will dedicate its weekly on air townhall edition on Saturday April 21, Noon PST, 3:00 PM EST to NAACP National Board Member and civil rights icon Willis Edwards. Edwards’s many decades of tireless…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

For two fateful days at the end of April and the first day of May 1992, I ducked around police cordons, and barricades, cringed in fear at the cackle of police gunfire. I choked, and gagged on and was blinded by the thick, acrid smoke that at times blotted out the sun and gave an eerie…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

George Zimmerman should be one of the least likely picks on the planet to re stir the racial divide. But Trayvon Martin’s accused killer did. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the overwhelming majority of whites did not feel that Martin was “unjustly killed.” Of course, the overwhelming majority…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In two terse statements, Florida Fourth Judicial Circuit  State Attorney Angela “tough on crime” Corey said that she would skip a grand jury and make a quick decision on whether to prosecute George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin.  Corey gave no hint of which way she was leaning.  She said simply that she…

Exclusive Interview with Pasadena Police Chief Phillip L. Sanchez

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles on April 6, with Pasadena Police Chief Phillip L. Sanchez

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

What do Kendrick Meek, Alvin Greene, Mike Thurmond, and C. Anthony Muse have in common? They are black, male, and all four had hoped to join one of the world’s most elite, select and politically powerful bodies in the world, the U.S. Senate. They didn’t make it.  Meek, Greene, and Thurmond lost their bids for Senate seats in…

Chief Sanchez Will Be In Studio in Inglewood

In an exclusive in studio interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on KTYM 1460 AM Radio and heard nationally on six stations and in fifty cities and Washington…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles on March 30, Susan Low Bloch, Professor of Law, Georgetown University.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There was never much doubt that if the Supreme Court ever got a chance to decide the constitutionality of the health care reform law that it would be in for rough sledding from the court’s five conservatives. The half week of court questioning on the law more than bore out that dire…