NATIONAL ARTICLES
RE: "THE CATHY HARRIS STORY"
Newest Customs Agents Get Head Start
(El Paso Times – 12-23-88)
Do As I Say, Not as I Do
Champion Newspaper – 10-09-97)
U.S. Customs Whistleblower Exposes Dangerous Freight
(Narco News – 99)
True Democracy
(Associated Press – 99)
Bias Allegations Spark Customs Staffing Changes at Hartsfield
(Atlanta Journal Constitution – 04-99)
Customs Search Bias Probe at Atlanta Airport Results in
Black Supervisor Replacing White
(Jet Magazine – 04-99)
Customs Transfers White Supervisor Over Bias Charges –
Inspectors at Atlanta Airport Alleged to Singled Out Blacks
(Associated Press – 04-01-99)
Customs Makes Staffing Changes at Atlanta Airport
(Associated Press – 04-01-99)
Atlanta Reassigns Staff After Racial Discrimination Allegations
(Airwise News – 04-02-99)
As Charges of Racism Grow:
Customs Service Changes Called "Damage Control
(Final Call Newspaper – 04-03-99)
Cold Welcome
(Essence Magazine – 05-99)
Whistleblowers, Customs at Odds
(Associated Press - 05-20-99)
Customs Agents Plan to File Suit
(Associated Press – 05-25-99)
VIOLATED!
(Source Magazine – 06-99)
Customs Curbed: Rules for Airport Searches Modified
(Atlanta Journal Constitution – 08-12-99)
Customs Set to Fire Whistleblower
(Associated Press – 10-99)
Blacks Hurting After Racism Charges
(California Voice - 10-24-99)
Racism at Customs Unites Blacks
(California Voice - 11-07-99)
Airport Whistleblower Subject of Continued Harassment
(Atlanta Voice – 11-13-99)
Customs Plans Firing Over Bias Disclosure
(New York Times – 11-21-99)
Changes Threaten 'Good Government Jobs
(Final Call Newspapers – 11-30-99)
Customs Employee Served With Termination Letter
(NNPA – 12-16-99)
Customs Critics Rally at Airport
(Atlanta Journal Constitution - 12-19-99)
Help Stop "Flying While Black"
(Soul of America Travel Website – 00)
Flying While Black & Female
(Rootz Reggae – 00)
Flying While Black
(Worldwide Whistleblowers – 00)
The “Reward” for a Whistleblower
(National Alliance for Positive Action - 01-04-00)
Watchworthy Whistleblowers
(Glamour Magazine – 03-00)
Cathy Harris, Honored for Whistleblowing
(Atlanta Newsleader - 04-06-00)
Black Customs Agent Facing Termination
for Blowing Whistle About Racism
(Black Enterprise Magazine – 04-10-00)
Servicio de Aduanas Suspende a Trabajadora
que Denuncio’ Abusos
(Mundo Hispanico - 04-11-00)
Customs ‘Whistleblower’ May Lose Job, Home
(Atlanta Inquirer - 04-15-00)
Atlanta’s Whistleblower Cathy Harris Called Modern-Day Rosa Parks
(Georgia Sentinel – 04-15-00)
The Whistleblower Was Right
(Politically Black – 04-26-00)
Flying While Black
(Upscale Magazine – 05-00)
Customs Retaliates Against Employees Who Expose Racism
(NNPA - 01-05-00)
Woman Honored for Exposing Strip Searches at O’Hare
(Chicago Defender - 05-13-00)
Whistleblower Faces Homelessness
(Dogonvillage - 05-19-00)
Chicago Group Honors Atlanta Customs ‘Whistleblower’
(Atlanta Inquirer – 05-20-00)
United States Customs Whistleblower Cathy Harris Brings
Fight to Chicago
(Chicago Defender – 05-20-00)
Racial Profiling: Will it Ever Cease?
(Signs of the Times - 08-04-00)
Black Customs Agent Facing Termination for Blowing Whistle
(Black Enterprise Magazine - 10-31-00)
U.S. Customs Employee Seeks Help
(The California Voice – 11-12-00)
Customs Whistleblower Broke, Jobless-Still Fighting
(Atlanta Inquirer – 11-18-00)
Whistleblower Asks for Help
(Atlanta Daily World – 11-19-00)
Back to Work for Whistleblower
(Atlanta Daily World – 11-19-00)
Atlanta’s Whistleblower Asks Black America for Help
(Connection Weekly – 12-09-00)
Book Released - Flying While Black
(Milligan Books – 01)
Whistleblower Back at Work – But Not at Old Job
(Atlanta Inquirer - 01-06-01)
Take A Stand
(Essence Magazine – 02-01)
The Whistleblower
(Essence Magazine – 02-01)
Flying While Black Book Tells All
(San Francisco Bureau – 04-01)
Lewis' Bill Would Bar Racial Profiling in Customs Searches
(Atlanta Journal Constitution – 06-01-01)
Book Review – Flying While Black: A Whistleblower’s Story
(Atlanta Tribune – 07-01)
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Things
(Upscale Magazine – 08-01)
Tackling Airport Racial Profiling
(Black Enterprise Magazine – 08-01)
“Get Your Hand Out of My Passport!”
(Rolling Out Newspaper - 12-06-01)
Smith to Host "Women as Whistleblowers Conference"
(Smith College – 03-02)
Special Recipient Awards – Cathy Harris
(Atlanta Caribbean Awards - 03-22-03)
Whistleblower Protection Crucial to Homeland Security
(Federal Times Magazine – 05-12-03)
"Cathy Harris Wins Whistle Awards"
(No Fear Coalition – 09-04)
US Racial Profiling Undermines National Security
(Amnesty International – 09-04)
There is One U.S. Racial Profiling Victim for Every Resident of Canada
(Amnesty International - 09-01-04)
Muslim American Society
(05-05)
"The Cathy Harris Story - The Voice of
Conscious Crying in The Wilderness"
(Exodus News – 05-05)
"Whistleblower Mistreatment Exposes Bush Hypocrisy"
(Black Omaha Online 05-05)
Black International Travelers May Get Hassles
(Post Travel Writer Chauncey Bailey – 05-10-06)
Author Using Lessons Learned to Help Others Rebuild
(Crossroad News - 07-27-06)
NATIONAL ARTICLES: CORRUPTION BY THE CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
Black Women and Customs Clash
(Final Call - 06-02-97)
Unscheduled Departure for a Jamaican at BWI
(Baltimore Sun - 10-01-97)
U.S. Customs Drug Searches Raise Worries
(Baltimore Sun - 10-19-97)
Former Agent Alleges Racial Discrimination
(El Paso Times - 98)
Customs Official Target of Grand Jury
(San Diego Union Tribune - 03-06-98)
Woman Awarded $450,000 for Strip Search
(Federal Times – 04-98)
Customs Service Criticized From Inside
(Federal Times - 04-98)
Customs Accused of Unfair Searches of Women
(U.S.A. Today - 07-15-98)
Unscheduled Departure for a Jamaican at BWI – After Strip-Searched
for Drugs - He’s Taken to Hospital for X-Rays
(Baltimore Sun - 08-04-98)
U.S. Customs Drug Searches Raise Worries – Women Who
Resisted Officers at BWI Says She Was Singled Out
(Baltimore Sun – 08-04-98)
Customs Service Accused of Job Bias
(NNPA - 09-10-98)
Bigotry Reigns Supreme within U.S. Customs Service
(NNPA – 09-10-98)
Racism & Retaliation – Customs Service Protects Prejudice
(NNPA – 10-03-98)
Defiant Discrimination - The Old Customs Bashes Blacks
(NNPA - 10-19-98)
Drug Smuggling, Causes Customs Service to See Black
(NNPA – 10-27-98)
U.S. Customs - Hassled While Coming Home
(NNPA - 11-19-98)
Customs Tests X-Ray Drug Search
(U.S.A. Today 11-25-98)
X-Rays Replace Strip Searches for Drugs
(Associated Press – 11-25-98)
Customs Drug Searches Prompt Suits
(Associated Press - 12-02-98)
Customs Officials Stand by Tactics
(Associated Press - 12-03-98)
Top South Florida Official is Accused of Personnel Abuses
(Miami Herald Special Report - 12-13-98)
Some Agents Who Blow the Whistle Face Administrative Retribution
(Miami Herald Special Report - 12-13-98)
Team Plagued by Sex Harassment Claims
(Miami Herald Special Report -12-13-98)
U.S. Customs: A Culture of Favoritism
(Miami Herald - 12-13-98)
Black Women Strip-Searched at Airport Joins
Class-Action Lawsuit against Customs
(Jet Magazine - 12-21-98)
Customs Chief Wins Lifetime Appointment:
Discrimination Case Angers Other Workers
(Miami Herald – 01-99)
Travel and Blacks: Harassment Nationwide
(NNPA – 01-01-99)
Strip-Search Probe Widens
(Chicago - NBC News - 01-16-99)
Black Customs Agents Claim Black Travelers Unfairly Targeted
(NNPA - 01-16-99)
South Florida Managers Transferred in Customs Shake-Up
(Miami Herald - 01-27-99)
Corruption in U.S. Customs
(Atlanta Daily World – 02-04-99)
Customs Retrain Drug Searchers
(Associated Press - 02-12-99)
New Report Assails Infighting at U.S. Customs
(Miami Herald - 02-13-99)
Retired Customs Boss Offers to Testify
(Miami Herald - 02-14-99)
Federal Inquires Aimed at Customs
(Miami Herald - 02-14-99)
Twin Federal Inquiries Target Customs Service Management
(Miami Herald - 02-14-99)
Senate, Treasury Launch Investigations of Customs
(Miami Herald - 02-14-99)
Customs Under Fire
(Miami Herald - 02-14-99)
Customs Service is Probed
(Associated Press - 02-14-99
Report Chastises Chief of South Florida Customs
(Miami Herald - 02-16-99)
Kelly Taps Prosecutor to Head Customs Internal Affairs
(Washington Bureau - 02-16-99)
Former Miami Prosecutor Takes Customs Post
(Miami Herald - 02-17-99)
NTEU Union Chief Says He'll Step Down
(Washington Post - 02-17-99)
Aiming to Enforce Change at Customs
(Washington Post - 02-17-99)
U.S. Customs Admits Its Own Drug Corruption
(New York Times - 02-17-99)
U.S. Customs Service Facing Shakeup
(Washington Post - 02-17-99)
New Reports Assails Infighting at U.S. Customs
(Miami Herald - 02-17-99)
Customs Internal Woes Invite Corruption
(Miami Herald - 02-18-99)
Retired Customs Boss Offers to Testify
(Miami Herald – 02-24-99)
Customs Retrain Drug Searchers
(Associated Press - 03-12-99)
Lewis Calls for Probe of Customs Bias Claims
(Washington Bureau - 03-25-99)
Customs Agent Seeks End to ‘Flying While Black’ Snag
(Chicago Defender – 04-99)
Customs Transfers White Supervisor Over Bias Charges
(Associated Press - 04-01-99)
Travel and Blacks: Harassment Nationwide
(Oakland Tribune - 04-01-99)
Bias Allegation Spark Customs Staffing Changes at Hartsfield
(Atlanta Journal Constitution - 04-02-99)
Customs Service Changes Called Damage Control
(The Final Call - 04-03-99)
Customs To Study Search Complaints
(Associated Press - 04-07-99)
Customs Panel Envisioned to Probe Bias
(New York Times - 04-08-99)
Blacks and Travel: Racism at U.S. Customs
(The Sun-Reporter – 04-08-99)
Customs Service Will Review Drug-Search Process for Bias
(New York Times - 04-09-99)
New Panel to Probe Claims of Customs Bias
(Atlanta Journal Constitution - 04-09-99)
A Tale of Bureaucratic Racism Against Minorities
(NNPA – 04-10-99)
Blacks Fighting Customs and Travel Racism
(Oakland Tribune - 04-14-99)
Racism at U.S. Customs
(Oakland Tribune - 04-14-99)
U.S. Customs Failures Treated Leniently
(Miami Herald - 05-09-99)
Customs Wrongdoing, Customary Leniency?
(Miami Herald -05-09-99)
Agency is Faulted for its Handling of Claims of Bribery,
Sexual Misconduct
(Miami - 05-09-99)
Reforms Proposed for Embattled Agency
(Miami Herald - 05-09-99)
Customs Practices Under Fire
(ABC News – 05-20-99)
Customs Abuse Stories Trouble Congressman
(Atlanta Journal Constitution - 05-21-99)
Probe Lashes Customs After Herald Report
(Miami Herald - 05-23-99)
Audit Cites Customs 'Fear of Reprisal'
(Miami Herald - 05-23-99)
Allegations of Wrongdoing Increase against U.S. Customs Service
(Associated Press - 05-25-99)
Senate Berates Customs
(Associated Press – 05-25-99)
Customs Says It's More Alert to Corruption
(Miami Herald - 05-26-99)
Break the Old Customs - Let Prosecutors Handle Wrongdoers
(Miami Herald - 05-27-99)
Lewis Calls for Probe of Customs Bias Claims
(Atlanta Journal Constitution – 05-99)
Congress Hears Travel Racism Charges
(San Francisco Bureau - 05-30-99)
Bailey Seeks Apology from U.S. Customs Agents
(Chicago Defender - 06-99)
The Dangers of Traveling While Black
(NNPA - 06-10-99
Employee Racism at Customs Prompts New Lawsuit
(NNPA - 06-16-99)
Customs’s Procedures Questioned
(Associated Press – 06-28-99)
U.S. Customs Changes Policy on Searching Suspected Drug Smugglers
(New York Times - 08-12-99)
Customs Curbed: Rules for Airport Searches Changed
(Atlanta Journal Constitution - 08-12-99)
Put Off by Agency's Treatment
(Indianapolis Star - 10-09-99)
Executive Files ‘Racial Profiling’ Complaint Against Customs
(Associated Press – 11-18-99)
Chicago Airport Has Found A Way Around Body Search
(Associated Press - 11-22-99)
Racial Profiling Hits Airlines
(Washington Afro Staff - 11-27-99)
Customs Commissioner Cites Changes
(NNPA - 12-27-99)
The Naked Truth: Airport Security Scanner Raises Privacy Concerns
(Associated Press - 12-30-99)
Race Beyond The Nuances
(Julianne Malveaux (Syndicated Columnist) – 00)
John Lewis Introduces Bill to Protect the Rights of
International Travelers
(Associated Press - 03-16-00)
Study Finds Wide Disparities in Customs' Intrusive Searches
(Washington Post - 04-10-00)
Strip Searches and X-Rays: Black Women Stopped
Disproportionately by Customs
(Associated Press - 04-10-00)
Report: Customs Profiles Black Women
(Philadelphia Tribune - 04-11-00)
Judge Slams Customs in Whistleblower Case
(Miami Herald - 04-17-00)
Strip Searches of Black Women Higher Than Any Other Group:
Investigation Finds that Black Women Are Nine Times as Likely
to Be Strip Searched as White Women
(Champion Newspaper – 04-20-00)
U.S. Customs Applies A Double Standard in Two Directions at Once
(NNPA – 04-27-00)
Bailey Seeks Apology from U.S. Customs Agents
(Chinta Strausberg – 06-01-00)
Jury Awards Agent $1 Million
(San Antonio Times - 06-27-00)
‘Flying While Black’ Rooted in Racism at U.S. Customs
(NNPA – 04-28-00)
Panel: Customs Need Outside Advice
(Associated Press - 06-28-00)
Customs Review Finds Flaws
(Washington Post - 06-29-00)
Congressional Black Caucus Staff Victims of Racial Profiling
(NNPA - 07-11-00)
X-Rated X-Ray: Airport Searches Reveal More Than Passengers Know
(Associated Press – 08-21-00)
Report Criticizes Customs Service
(Black Enterprise Magazine – 10-31-00)
Customs Strip-Search Case Dismissed
(Baltimore Sun – 12-01-00)
Don’t Under Dress for Customs
(ABC News - 08-22-01)
Airport Security Over Privacy? Technology for Safer Airports
Raises Privacy Issues
(Associated Press - 12-11-01)
Black Women Say They Are Race Profiling Targets Too
(Natl. Alliance for Positive Action – 07-02-02)
How Safe Are Our Borders: Customs Fails to Detect
Depleted Uranium Carried From Europe to U.S.
(ABC News - 09-11-02)
National Action Network Places Canada on “Travel Restricted
for African Americans” List Due to Canadian Profiling, Strip Searches
Using Detroit Border
(Multicultural Advantage – 04-06-2003)
Canadian Border Way Too Open
(Associated Press - 09-11-03)
Black Woman Gets $350,000 Settlement for Florida Airport
Strip Search
(Associated Press – 11-20-03)
Torturous Abuse Not Limited to Saddam’s Dungeons
(NNPA – 12-26-2003)
Bush Picks Ex-Prosecutor for Homeland Post
(ABC News - 01-11-05)
Homeland Security Again Accused of Racial Profiling
(Narco News – 01-20-05)
Infighting Hinders Homeland Security Squabbles Said to Reduce
Department’s Effectiveness
(Washington Post – 02-02-05)
