April 2014 Blog Posts (14)

Why Sterling Is Still Next to Impossible to Get Rid Of

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The instant L.A. Clipper owner Donald T. Sterling’s racist rants hit the airwaves the cry went up far and wide that Sterling must go. There was virtually no dissent from the demand that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver make that…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 30, 2014 at 7:47am — No Comments

L.A. NAACP Should Expunge the 2009 Award to Sterling

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Tuesday, April 29 called on the NAACP and all civil rights organizations to thoroughly…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 28, 2014 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Civil Rights Leaders Demand L.A. City Council and Mayor Garcetti End Sterling Subsidy

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson, and Pedro Baez, Publisher Voice of the People, and other civil rights leaders on Sunday, April 27 demanded that the L.A. City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti review the taxpayer subsidy of $71 million…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 27, 2014 at 5:13pm — No Comments

Donald T. Sterling is no Aberration

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling is no aberration. His beyond reprehensible slur that he doesn’t want African-Americans at “my games” that ignited a furor is part and parcel of an increasingly rotten and ugly…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 27, 2014 at 7:26am — No Comments

Civil Rights Leaders Call for Face-to-Face Meeting With L.A. Clipper Owner Donald Sterling

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and a coalition of civil rights leaders on Saturday April 26 publicly called for a face-to-face meeting with L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling. They will call for him to declare Tuesday's…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 26, 2014 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Feds Can Undo Even More of the Damage they did in the Drug War

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 24, 2014 at 7:35pm — No Comments

Civil Rights Leaders Demand Sheriff’s Candidates Pledge to Ban Secret Airborne Video Surveillance in County

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Thursday, April 24, demanded that all L.A. County Sheriff’s candidates publicly pledge to ban all secret, or unauthorized, airborne video surveillance of Compton and other communities in L.A. County. This type of surveillance is a gross violation of privacy rights and opens the door wide to greater potential civil rights and civil liberties abuses by the Sheriff’s…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 24, 2014 at 10:47am — No Comments

The Hutchinson Report Newspaper Examines In Depth The Crisis of the Black Male in America

The May-June, 2014 Issue of The Hutchinson Report Newspaper takes an in-depth look at problems, issues, and views on the crisis of young black males in America. It examines President Obama's My Brother's Keeper's Initiative that aims to deal with the problems of at-risk minority youth and proposes solutions to the crisis.

"This all encompassing…

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Added by Earl Ofari Hutchinson on April 23, 2014 at 8:13pm — No Comments