TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Cherokee Nation is rolling out a public relations campaign in response to federal lawmakers who say the tribe should be denied benefits unless it recognizes descendants of its former black slaves.
The campaign includes two Web sites discussing a 2007 referendum in which Cherokees decided to remove about 2,800 freedmen descendants [...]

By Ted Vincent
For 150 years, Mexican schoolchildren have learned that their heritage lies in the marriage of Spanish colonial culture and the conquered races of Native America.
But if ESU assistant professor of Spanish Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas has his way, they’ll also begin to think of themselves as African.
Hernández’s new book “African Mexicans and the [...]

The first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a “green wall” in protest of the fence the U.S. is building along the border with Mexico.
The treeline will eventually stretch for 318 miles along the border between the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas.
Coahuila Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdes says “our wall is of life, [...]

By Christian Fraser
BBC News, Rome
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has arrived in Libya for talks with Col Muammar Gaddafi.
The two leaders will discuss how to stop illegal immigrants using Libya as a launching point for Italian shores.
Mr Berlusconi said he would ask for the creation of Libyan holding centres for illegal immigrants and increased vigilance [...]

Let the misinformation campaign begin…
Recreate 68 protesters split before convention
By Ivan Moreno
The Associated Press
06/28/2008
DENVER — They adopted a bold name — Re-create 68 — promising a protesters’ show of force like in Chicago 40 years ago when the Democratic National Convention comes to Denver in August.
But the Denver-based umbrella coalition ranging from anarchists to environmentalists [...]