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"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."

African-American Community's KFC Boycott 

As has been widely reported, KFC offered its free grilled chicken promotion on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show,' but ultimately reneged on its promise and left millions of people in the lurch. The Fact Sheet notes that KFC's promotion included ads featuring African Americans dancing around and clucking like chickens for their "finger-lickin' chicken."

The same ad agency that was behind the Oprah Chicken Giveaway fiasco and the ill-advised ad mentioned previously also used the song "Sweet Home Alabama" - a song defending the Confederacy and Alabama's racist history - to promote KFC, as reported by Business Week.  The Fact Sheet further noted that Oprah has been the subect of racist ridicule, including an image of the famous talk show host with a photo-shopped bucket of KFC chicken on her head. A whopping 5.7 million coupons were not honored.  

Russell Simmons pulls back his Yankees cap, zeroing in on the finer points of preppy style. "This sweaters fly," he says, tugging at an argyle sweater vest in a harlequin of yellow, purple and melon. Then his eye falls on a more basic model. "This," he says, "could be Brooks Brothers."

And not in a good way. The hip-hop mogul is reviewing samples for one of his latest startups, a men's clothing line for Macy's called Russell Simmons Argyle Culture. In February, he debuted a second, less expensive line that's sold -- to the chagrin of some fans -- exclusively at Wal-Mart. The idea Simmons says, is no less than an "initiative to dress America at every price point."

Argyle is a key element in his plot for sartorial dominaton-but not just any argyle .,.

Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The study found that women were far more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than men, with the highest prevalence among women who were illegal immigrants. Among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites.

"These practices are not just morally represhensible, but they're bad for the economy," said Annette Bernhardt, an author of the study and policy co-director of the National Employment Law Project. "When unscrupulous employers break the law, they're robbing families of money to put food on the table, they're robbing communities of spending power and they're robbing governments of vital tax revenues."

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