Web site offers black perspective

The North Star, an independent online news and opinion site aimed at African Americans, has gotten a lot of notice lately for its strong criticism of New Jersey political leaders' handling of the nomination of a black justice to the state supreme court. "Instead of demanding multiple seats on the high court, we resigned ourselves to 'one' and then let Governor (James) McGreevey pit Blacks against Latinos in some junior high school version of West Side Story," publisher Walter Fields wrote. "Congressman Bob Menendez called it 'amateur hour' at the State House. He was being kind. This is Amos and Andy." Fields, a former state political director for the NAACP, founded the site in October 2002 to offer political coverage from a black perspective. "We don't hide the fact that we are advocates for where the black community should be headed," he told The Associated Press. Also worth noting is the site's ongoing special report on the federal courts.

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