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Meanwhile, Back in Wisconsin: We’ve Got a Shooting in an Oak Creek Sikh Temple

• August 5, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in American History, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Discrimination, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Immigration, India, Love, Mass Shootings, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Obama Administration, People of Color, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Sikhs, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin, Women
Tags: Amritsar, Chief of Police, Children, CNN, Drama, Guns, Gurdwara, Hate Crime, India, Indian Americans, Mass Shootings, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Murder, Muslim, Nichiren Buddhism, Oak Creek Wisconsin, Religions, Sikh, Sikhism, Sikhs, Temple Shootings, Terrorism, Turbans, United States, Wisconsin, World Peace, World Peace Gongyo

Forty Years Since George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” Released; Nine Years Since George Left Us

• November 29, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Music, Public Television, Religion, Spirituality, Television, The Beatles, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "All Things Must Pass", "Rubber Soul", "The Concert for George", Anniversary, Assassination, Beatle, Britain, David Crosby, Death, George Harrison, High School, India, Indians, Jim Croce, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Knife Attack, Los Angeles California, Lung Cancer, Memorial, Music, Paul McCartney, PBS, Phase, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Religious, Singer Songwriter, Sitar, Solo Album, Spiritual Rock, The Beatles, The Seventies, Tribute

Knifed Cabbie Sharif Meets Mayor Bloomberg; NYPD Finds Attacker Enright’s Journals

• August 27, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Afghanistan, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Bangladesh, Cultural History, Documentary, Domestic Terrorism, Film, Hate Crimes, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Islam/Sufism, Jews, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement
Tags: Ahmed Sharif, al Qaeda, Alcoholism, Attempted Murder, Bangladesh, Bellevue Hospital, Bhairavi Desai, Cab, Cabbie, Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Cordoba House/Park 51, Drunk, Drunkenness, Fear, Fearmongering, Governor David Paterson, Hatemonger, Hatemongering, Imam Shamsi Ali, India, Islamic Culture Center, Knifing, Michael Enright, Muslim, Muslims, Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Pakistan, Psychological Crisis, Psychological Wounds, PTSD, Ramadan, Religion, Rikers Island, Terrorists, The Indian Subcontinent, The Marines, Waliur-ur Rehman, World Trade Center

BBC Production of Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” at Hulu

• March 25, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Africans, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Class, Crime, Domestic Terrorism, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Film, Health, History, India, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Public Television, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II
Tags: "White Teeth", Anti-Immigration, Black Muslims, Blacks, Britain, Culture, Immigration, India, Indians, Islam, Islamists, Love, Malcolms, Neo-Colonialism, Pakistan, Pakistanis, World Culture, Zadie Smith

There’s Jim Crow in Silicon Valley

• March 12, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, History, India, People of Color, Race, Science, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "The San Jose Mercury-News", AMD, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Apple, Applied Materials, Caroline Simard, Chicanos, Cisco Systems, Diversity, eBay, Electrical Engineering, Freedom of Information Act, Gender, Google, Henry Alford, Hewlett-Packard, Hispanics, India, Indians, Information Technology, Intel, La Raza Unida, Latinos, Lawsuits, Mark Dean, Midwest, NAACP, Oracle, Pacific Rim, Race, Richard Ford, Roy Clay, Sanmina, Silicon Valley, Silly Con Valley, Sun Microsystems, The Department of Labor, The Great Recession, The Pacific Rim, Urban League, West Coast, Women, Yahoo

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