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Showing videos filed under: ben jealous
Ben Jealous: One Struggle for Human Rights
April 7, 2011"We intend in this moment when diversity is increasing and prosperity is decreasing, to ensure that our country makes the right choice. There are indeed two choices. One choice is that you attack diversity and you distract people from the economy. Some folks have made that choice. The other is that you embrace diversity and you attack poverty," says Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP.Crisis in Japan, Heather McGhee, and Ben Jealous
April 6, 2011The news today from Japan is that the leak at the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant has been stopped but the crisis is far from over. Radiation levels remain high even outside the evacuation zone, contaminated fish are turning up, and the government seems to be insisting on business as usual, according to Aileen Mioko Smith.LIVE Election Night Coverage with Laura and Amy Goodman!
November 1, 2010Burned out on corporate media election coverage? Frustrated by ABC's choice of Andrew Breitbart as a commentator? Watch the returns roll in with GRITtv and Free Speech TV instead. November 2nd, from 8PM to 2AM EST, right here on our site or on Free Speech TV on DISH Network and DIRECTv.Benjamin Jealous: One Nation, Moving Forward
October 6, 2010The One Nation rally this past weekend was intended to offer an alternative to anger and hate, to give progressives a way to come together to organize around the issue most pressing to nearly all Americans: the economy and jobs. The idea was the brainchild of Ben Jealous, the youngest leader of the nation's oldest and largest grassroots civil rights organization, the NAACP, along with George Gresham of 1199 SEIU.Lizz Winstead, and Ben Jealous at One Nation
October 5, 2010Election 2010: it just keeps getting weirder. Now that the primaries are mostly over, a motley crew of Tea Partiers and abstinenceaholics are taking aim at Congress, and some of what they have to say is hilarious--or would be, if these weren't the nominees of one of the two major parties in the U.S., and the other party hadn't managed to alienate a good chunk of its base.Kimberle Crenshaw: "Post-Racial" Politics and History
September 30, 2010We hear a lot about "post-racial" politics these days--the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it's not really new either. But a lack of a sense of history is another symptom of today's politics, and Crenshaw notes that even black elected officials and candidates sometimes fall victim.Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Jones, and the Cycle of War
September 29, 2010We hear a lot about "post-racial" politics these days--the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it's not really new either. But a lack of a sense of history is another symptom of today's politics, and Crenshaw notes that even black elected officials and candidates sometimes fall victim.Bill Fletcher Jr.: Remembering Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks
April 24, 2010Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks both passed away recently; as trailblazing leaders in the movements for civil rights, they both worked to make a better world not just for African-Americans, but for everyone. Height was a feminist and an outspoken activist for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and Hooks led the NAACP through a transitional period in its long history.Bill Fletcher Jr., Foreclosures and Financial Reform, and Cochabamba
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.An Interview with NAACP's New Chair Roslyn Brock
February 26, 2010Free Speech TV's Herb Boyd sat down with Roslyn Brock, new chair of the NAACP's National Board of Directors to talk healthcare, the challenges facing Black communities in the United States today and what it means to be the 4th woman and the youngest person yet to hold her vital post.
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