Rapper Nas will join members of ColorOfChange.org & MoveOn.org on Wednesday to deliver 620,127 petition signatures demanding that FOX end its pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans including presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The group will make the delivery Wednesday, July 23rd at FOX in Manhattan.

Over the last several weeks, FOX has had a string of incidents that many believe are a veiled attempt to prey on racism and intolerance and cast the Obamas as “outsiders”: an on-screen graphic referred to Mrs. Obama as “Obama’s baby mama,” a pundit “confused” Obama with Osama and then joked they should both be assassinated, and an anchor called a loving fist bump between Barack and Michelle a “terrorist fist jab.” In February, Bill O’Reilly talked about calling a “lynching party” to deal with Michelle.

Nas recently released a single and accompanying video entitled, “Sly Fox” to bring light to Fox’s unprofessional antics.

Various cities across the United States have been cracking down on youngsters who like to wear saggy pants.

Eugene Williams is the mayor of Lynwood (in South Chicago), says young men walk around town half-dressed, keeping major retailers and economic development away. He calls the new law a hot topic. The American Civil Liberties Union says the ordinance targets young men of color.

Young adults in the village, like 21-year-old Joe Klomes, say the new law infringes on their personal style. He says leaders should instead spend money on making the area look nicer.

In Flint, Michigan, Flint Police Chief David Dicks (pictured above) has said he will not back down from his policy of filing disorderly conduct or indecent exposure charges against those whose saggy pants allow too much underwear or their bottoms to show on city streets (view video).

In response, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Michigan chapter told the Free Press on Monday that it is now looking for targets of the policy to talk with the organization. The ACLU has called the city ordinance unconstitutional.

“We are confident that young men in Flint will contact us now that the chief has announced that he won’t budge,” Michael J. Steinberg, legal director of the state ACLU, said Monday. “If they do, we’ll sue. We may have the dubious distinction of being the first saggy pants lawsuit in the country.” [ READ MORE ]

Detroit and various cities in South Carolina are also jumping on the ‘no saggy pants’ bandwagon.

Disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.

Jones, a former Olympic gold medalist, was convicted in January of lying to federal agents investigating the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in track and field. She was sentenced to six months in prison and 400 hours of community service and began serving the sentence in Texas on March 7.

The Justice Department reviews all requests for pardons and commutations and makes recommendations to the president. A pardon removes a conviction from someone’s record, while a commutation only reduces or eliminates the person’s sentence, according to the Associated Press. It was not clear when Jones made the request, AP reported.

Jones, 32, has been stripped of her medals won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.