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| 8/26/05 |
Groups Urge DOJ to Reject Georgia Voter I.D. Bill
Major civil rights leaders are opposing Georgia's recently enacted voter identification law, which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently reviewing pursuant to the federal preclearance requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. According to Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, the I.D. statute is "highly detrimental to the very rights that the [Voting Rights] Act was designed to protect."
The law, House Bill 244, was passed on April 22. It requires that all prospective voters present a state-issued photo identification at the polls before being allowed to cast their
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civilrights.org |
Ethnic Media Try to Diffuse Ethnic Tensions in L.A.
LOS ANGELES -- Black and Latino media are training the spotlight on the state of relations between blacks and Latinos in this increasingly Hispanic city, in an effort to diffuse sensationalism in the coverage of thorny problems between the two communities.
It has been a bumpy ride for race relations in recent months. Last April, fights broke out between more than 100 black and Latino students at Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles, the latest in a series of brawls that took place in schools in the area, including the Crenshaw, Manual Arts and Jordan high schools.
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Pacific News Service, News Feature |
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| 8/22/05 |
New USCCR Report Called "Back-Door" Approach to Weaken Affirmative Action Programs
Recommendations from a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USSCR) "seem to indicate the Commission's intent to eliminate equal opportunity and affirmative action programs," Americans for a Fair Chance (AFC), a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, said in a critical rebuttal to the USCCR's findings.
USCCR's report, "Federal Procurement After Adarand," purports to recommend methods by which federal procurement agencies can enforce laws in a manner consistent with the 1995 Adarand Constructors Inc v. Pena Supreme Court decision.
Americans for a Fair Chance's rebuttal pointed out that the USCCR's recommendations significantly and unfairly raise the threshold for legally acceptable race cons
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civilrights.org |
Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to the United States.
Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said on "The 700 Club" it was the United States' duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a "launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
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SFGate.com |
Graduation Day, Six Decades Late-Now in their 70s and 80s, Japanese Americans Interned During WWII don Caps and Gowns for High School Ceremony.
Dozens of Japanese Americans who as teenagers were forced to relocate to internment camps during World War II and never received diplomas from their hometown high schools donned caps and gowns, corsages and leis for a belated graduation ceremony Sunday.
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L.A. Times |
Report: Dallas Prosecutors Excluded Blacks
DALLAS (AP) -- As recently as 2002, Dallas County prosecutors were excluding eligible blacks from juries at more than twice the rate they turned down whites, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The issue surfaced earlier this year when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1986 murder conviction of a black man accused of killing a white motel clerk, saying the Dallas County jury that convicted Thomas Miller-El was unfairly stacked with whites.
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| 8/18/05 |
'Red Face' Does Not Honor Us
A Native American applauds as an important first step the recent decision by the NCAA to prohibit Native motifs in postseason play.
DENVER--The debate over the use of Native American imagery by professional and collegiate sports teams has raged for decades. In the past, when Native people protested racist names and corrupted "Native" imagery being misappropriated as logos or mascots, the response from the athletic community ranged from confusion to anger. Some fans even had the audacity to claim that they were "honoring" us.
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Pacific News Service |
Asian American Educational Achievement Belies Invisibility
The California Department of Education released its high school Exit Exam and STAR results this week. Chinese American parents have always paid close attention to education news. Yet, the news report only mentioned gains made by California students as a group and the differences between white and African American and Latino students. As if Asian Americans are invisible, the release did not contain one word on results for Asian Americans. Asian Americans were only covered in a column in a small graph accompanying the story.
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Sing Tao Daily, Editorial/ncmonline.com |
Sterilization Patients Victimized Again
WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) –There is confusion about exactly how victims of the state’s sterilization program can get their medical records.
And from whom?
After the story broke in 2002 about how the state of North Carolina, from 1929 to 1974, involuntarily sterilized the majority of the 7,600 victims of its eugenics program, notarized requests from some of those people were sent to the State Archives in the Dept. of Cultural Resources for their medical records documenting the operations, and the reasons for them.
Only those persons can legally obtain their records.
Many of the sterilizations were performed in state hospitals, which may or may not still retain a copy of those records today.
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NNPA FROM THE Wilmington Journal, News Reoprt/ncmonline.com |
Signature Drive to Create California Border Patrol
SAN FRANCISCO – Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes has introduced a bill that would create a new Border Patrol in California, arguing that we must get rid of illegal immigrants because they “flagrantly take advantage” of taxpayers.
The bill, ACA 20, was evaluated and brought to a vote on July 5 in the State Assembly Judicial Committee where it was rejected. Now Haynes, together with a group of volunteers, is launching a signature collection campaign to put the measure on the 2006 ballot.
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El Mensajero/ncmonline.com |
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| 8/16/05 |
Rich Liberals Vow to Fund Think Tanks
At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades.
The money will be channeled through a new partnership called the Democracy Alliance, which was founded last spring -- the latest in a series of liberal initiatives as the Democratic Party and its allies continue to struggle with the loss of the House and the Senate in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. Many influential Democratic contributors were left angry and despairing over the party's poor showing in last year's elections, and are looking for what they hope will be more effective ways to invest their support.
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civilrights.org |
Briefing: Much More Is Needed to Make Fair Housing a Reality
The nation is experiencing a "crisis of racial segregation" at a time when funding for and commitment to the enforcement of fair housing laws is in a "precipitous decline," according to a new report from the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) detailing the state of housing discrimination in the United States.
The 2005 Fair Housing Trends Report was presented at a July 19 briefing sponsored by, NFHA in collaboration with the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) and Rep. Al Green, D. Texas.
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civilrights.org |
U.S. Hispanics Divided on Immigrant Issues
WASHINGTON -- A majority of Hispanics born in the United States don't think illegal Hispanic immigrants should be given drivers' licenses, according to a new poll.
Most foreign-born Hispanics disagree, according to the polling for the Pew Hispanic Center.
Six in 10 Hispanics born in this country approve of measures to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting drivers' licenses, while two-thirds born in another country disapprove of such measures.
The difference between foreign-born Hispanics and native-born Hispanics on the driver's license issue highlights the disparity between the two groups on several issues
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washingtonpost.com |
John H. Johnson, Media Giant, Dead at 87
CHICAGO (NNPA) –John H. Johnson, the award-winning publishing pioneer and cosmetics mogul who used the pages of Ebony and Jet magazines to trumpet the stories of African Americans for the past 60 years, and in turn built a $500 million media empire, died Monday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 87.
His story is a rags-to-riches tale. A man who left Arkansas for Chicago as part of the Great Migration launched by Chicago Defender founder, Robert Abbott, Johnson went from poverty and welfare to one of the nation’s richest men.
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New Report Highlights Problems Faced by Asian Americans As they Vote
Washington, D.C.- Aug. 5, 2005 – A new report released today, the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, underscores the importance of providing access to the ballot for Asian Americans with limited English proficiency.
The report, “Sound Barriers: Asian Americans and Language Access in Election 2004,” details the barriers faced by Asian Americans who voted during last year’s elections. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, almost three million Asian Americans turned out to vote on Nov. 2, 2004.
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| 8/11/05 |
Righting a Wrong, U.S. to Honor WWII Vet's Bravery-Ben Kuroki, 88, faced prejudice in the Army as a Japanese American. This week, he receives a Distinguished Service Medal, one of the nation's highest military honors.
Ben Kuroki fearlessly flew 58 combat missions over Europe and North Africa, but on a February day in 1944, before an elite crowd in San Francisco, he realized he was more afraid of his own countrymen.
Arrayed before him were 700 members of the Commonwealth Club, the oldest civic forum in the nation, made up of newspaper editors, educators and businessmen. The kind of people who ran California. A Hearst newspaper on that day, Feb. 4, 1944, announced his appearance: "Jap to address S.F. Club."
About 190 miles away, over the Sierra, 10,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were being held behind barbed wire at the Manzanar War Relocation Center.
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| 8/9/05 |
Schools Can Appeal NCAA Indian Rule
Florida State can go to court, as its president has threatened. But the NCAA is pointing out an alternative avenue to schools unhappy with new restrictions on their use of American Indian nicknames, mascots or logos.
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Why Arabs Are Getting 'The Smackdown' in Pro Wrestling
Editor's Note: Professional wrestling's latest villains are two headdress-wearing Arab characters that the crowd loves to hate.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--A while back, I went to a live "Smackdown" wrestling event and was introduced to professional wrestling's latest villains: two headdress-wearing Arabs called Hassan and Daivari. As their introduction music blasted throughout the arena, all that was heard were jeers and boos.
All around me I overheard many people yelling, "F--- you, go back to your country," and "Go back to working at 7-11 and selling me Slurpees!" To my further disgust, I saw several people, including boys as young as seven or eight, stick the middle finger at these wrestlers.
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Pacific News Service, Youth Commentary |
With Garang's Death, Southern Sudan May Secede
Since the death of Sudan's Vice President John Garang, some Islamic fundamentalists have issued fatwas against anyone renting places or giving support to Garang's liberation movement, the SPLA. PNS contributor Cobie Kwasi Harris says that without a unifier like Garang, the country could become a failed state. Harris is a professor of political science at San Jose State University.
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| 8/7/05 |
Thousands Protest Ruling on Hawaii Schools
HONOLULU -- Blowing conch shells and chanting Hawaiian prayers, some 15,000 people marched through downtown Honolulu Saturday to protest a federal court ruling striking down Kamehameha Schools' Hawaiians-only admissions policy as unlawful.
"We are outraged," said Lilikala Kameeleihiwa, a professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii. "This is a great setback for our people. Here we are on our own homeland and we can't educate our children."
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| 8/5/05 |
Lose the War Paint-NCAA Bans Indian Mascots, but only in Playoffs
The NCAA announcement Friday that it will ban the use of American Indian mascots and logos by sports teams during postseason NCAA tournaments, but not in the regular season or in major bowl games, has created equal parts confusion and controversy.
The rule, effective Aug. 1, 2008, prohibits displays of "hostile or abusive" references on uniforms of teams, cheerleaders and bands during a postseason NCAA tournament. Also, beginning Feb. 1, 2006, institutions with "hostile or abusive" mascots or imagery are prohibited from hosting
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Alou, Players Miffed at Host KNBR Suspends Krueger after Comments
Derogatory comments by KNBR's Larry Krueger about the Giants' Latin players and Felipe Alou evoked an impassioned response from the club's manager on Friday and led to the talk show host getting suspended for a week without pay.
Krueger set off a firestorm with his remarks about "brain-dead Caribbean hitters'' and his likening of Alou's mind to "Cream of Wheat,'' part of an extended rant about the Giants' failures this season following their 3-2 loss to the Rockies on Wednesday night.
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SFGate.com |
In a City on the Move, a Civil War Issue Refuses to Die
MEMPHIS, Aug. 4 - A clamor always seems to accompany any mention here of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the cavalryman whose outnumbered men whipped the Yankees at Brice's Crossroads in northern Mississippi.
Debate has long surrounded the statue, grave and park that bears the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero, in Memphis. Many want to rename the park and remove Forrest's body.
He was not just any Confederate hero. After the war, he returned to Memphis and, in 1867, became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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| 8/3/05 |
Al Sharpton's New Focus of Harmony: Los Angeles
The Rev. Al Sharpton announced Monday he was forming a coalition to promote racial unity between blacks and Latinos in the city, hoping to ease a long-running rivalry over jobs, housing and schools.
"Neither community can be what it needs to be unless we are together. We are not each other's enemies," Sharpton said at a news conference. "We cannot turn on each other at a time that there are those that exploit, oppress and suppress all of us."
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Mexico Struggles to Understand Embedded Racism in Diverse Society
MEXICO CITY - (KRT) - The man visiting from the south of Spain was having a revelation as he walked along Michoacan Street in the city's fashionable Condesa section.
"There are an awful lot of brown people on the street," he exclaimed. "You don't get that at all from the TV and advertising."
Foreigners in Mexico City who look at Mexican television - or movies or magazines or anything with human faces on it - could be excused for thinking they had landed in a European city.
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TimesLeader.com |
Court Finds Bias in Policy of Schools for Hawaiians
The Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii are practicing unlawful race discrimination by restricting enrollment to Native Hawaiian children, a federal appeals court panel in San Francisco ruled yesterday.
The schools, the only beneficiary of a $6 billion legacy of a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, have an enrollment of about 5,100 students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, on campuses on three islands. Yesterday's ruling means that the plaintiff in the case, a teenager, will start his senior year at one of the schools in the next few weeks, one of his lawyers, Eric Grant, said.
The schools' admissions policy requires prospective students to prove that at least one ancestor lived on the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, when the British explorer Capt. James Cook arrived.
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| 8/1/05 |
Listeners Irate Over the Hate
Harmon Gray was shocked at the acrid brew of racism, misogyny and profanity spewing from his radio.
"I couldn't believe it," Gray, 41, recalled yesterday. "Clear Channel took the Doug Banks show off to bring Richmond some garbage like that?"
He was talking about "Star & Buc Wild," the self-styled "universal haters," whose syndicated morning show is now broadcast weekdays on The Beat 106.5 WBTJ, a Clear Channel Communications station.
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| 7/31/05 |
A Look at the Three Immigration Reform Bills in Congress
Congress is expected to enact the first major overhaul of immigration policy since 1996. On the table are three immigration reform bills that could dramatically reshape the country’s immigration policy on key issues including legalization, guest worker programs, deportation, employer sanctions and police and border enforcement. The bills, proposed by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas); Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.); and Senators John Cornyn (R- Texas) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), present three distinct plans for immigration reform.
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Hispanics New Target of Hate Groups
Chattanooga, Tenn. - Organized hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan have historically terrorized blacks and Jews in the Southeast. But the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants to the region has given hate groups a new target, and officials say Hispanics are increasingly targets of hate crimes.
Former Klansman Daniel Schertz, a 27-year-old from the southeast Tennessee town of South Pittsburg, was indicted in June on charges of building pipe bombs to kill Hispanic immigrants.
Imperial Wizard Billy Jeffery of the North Georgia White Knights denied any connection to the bomb plot and said he banished Schertz from the group, but he readily admits he isn't happy with the flow of immigrants to the region.
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British Teen's Slaying Called Racist Attack-Several Men Followed the 18-year-old Black Youth, Striking Him with an Ax, Police Say.
LIVERPOOL, England — A black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist taunts died Saturday after being attacked with an ax, British police said.
Anthony Walker, 18, was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend and a cousin when a man started shouting at them late Friday near his home, officers said.
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L.A. Times |
A New Hope for Dreams Suspended by Segregation
FARMVILLE, Va. - Warren Brown was about to enter first grade in 1959 when officials chained up the public schools in Prince Edward County rather than allow black children to sit beside white children in a classroom.
Leola Bailey, Alda Boothe, Warren Brown, Rita Moseley and Barbara Springwere among those locked out of Virginia schools in the 1950's.
Without the resources to send him away, his mother kept him at home for four years, until she found a local church offering classes to black children.
Mr. Brown graduated from high school in 1972, winning basketball scholarships from three colleges, only to turn them down because he feared the academics would have been too challenging.
"I didn't get a proper foundation," he said. "If you're not prepared, what good is the school going to do for you?"
This fall, however, Mr. Brown, at the age of 51, plans to go to college to study criminal justice.
Five decades after Virginia ignored the actions of Prince Edward County and other locales that shut down their public schools in support of segregation, the state is making a rare effort to confront its racist past, in effect apologizing and offering reparations in the form of scholarships.
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On Farthest U.S. Shores, Iraq Is a Way to a Dream
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - By jogging at sunset on the white sands of a palm-fringed beach here, 17-year-old Audrey O. Bricia is doing more than toning up for her next try in this island's Miss Philippines contest. She is getting in shape for United States Army boot camp.
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Ross Delarosa, left, was among those waiting to take an aptitude test at the Army Reserve Center on Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands.
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Audrey O. Bricia, 17, in the Northern Marianas, sees the Army as a way to nursing school.
To gain an edge on the competition for enlistment, she reserved a seat two days in advance to take Army's aptitude test on a recent Saturday morning here. Safely ensconced in her seat, she watched an Army recruiter turn away 10 latecomers, all new high school graduates.
"I am scared about Iraq, but I am going to have to give something in return for those benefits I want," said Ms. Bricia, a daughter of Filipino immigrants whose ambition is to attend nursing school in California.
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| 7/26/05 |
All Ears for Tom Cruise, All Eyes on Brad Pitt
Some of us in the news media have been hounding President Bush for his shameful passivity in the face of genocide in Darfur.
More than two years have passed since the beginning of what Mr. Bush acknowledges is the first genocide of the 21st century, yet Mr. Bush barely manages to get the word "Darfur" out of his mouth. Still, it seems hypocritical of me to rage about Mr. Bush's negligence, when my own beloved institution - the American media - has been at least as passive as Mr. Bush.
Condi Rice finally showed up in Darfur a few days ago, and she went out of her way to talk to rape victims and spotlight the sexual violence used to terrorize civilians. Most American television networks and cable programs haven't done that much.
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| 7/25/05 |
Looking At The Mexican Stamp And Beyond
The widespread denunciation of the "Memin Pinguin" stamp recently circulated by Mexico's postal service is absolutely righteous. The stamp presents a hardcore, all-too-familiar racist stereotype. "It's a good thing it happened," commented Ron Wilkins, a Black activist, teacher and photographer in Santa Monica who often visits Afro-Mexican villages on the West Coast. Those villages were settled by descendants of the more than 200,000 enslaved Africans brought to Mexico by Spain after the Conquest. "The issue of Mexico's racism," Wilkins continued, "has been raised, loud and clear, as never before."
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Zmag.org |
Shaw Shuns 'Little Ethiopia' Black Leaders Note Immigrants' Pride But Resist Designation
Derege Zewdie pointed at the gleaming kitchen where cooks will serve up lamb and beef stews, fish and flat bread in the convenience store he plans to open in a few weeks. The rich oak shelves along the wall, he said, will be stocked with coffees, spices and music cassettes from his Ethiopian homeland.
Zewdie is among a cluster of Ethiopian entrepreneurs who have brought life to a long-neglected strip in Northwest Washington. They have worked long hours buying and renovating properties, opening restaurants and shops and offices, including one planned as a headquarters for an Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce.
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washingpost.com |
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| 7/19/05 |
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Responds to Roberts Nomination to Supreme Court
Washington, DC - Following reports that President George W. Bush will nominate Judge John G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) expressed disappointment that the President did not nominate a Latino to fill the seat to be vacated by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The CHC previously called on the President to fill the vacancy with a qualified Hispanic dedicated to equal justice and a judicial system that is fair to the Latino community.
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Board Stalemates on Signatures; Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Initiative Moves to Courts
On July 19, the Michigan State Board of Canvassers deadlocked (2-2) in its consideration of certification of the so-called "Michigan Civil Rights Initiative" (MCRI), which has been championed by affirmative action opponent Ward Connerly. The Michigan Court of Appeals will now consider certification of the initiative over the coming weeks.
Connerly is best known as the businessman and former University of California regent who successfully led anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in California (1996) and Washington (1998). Connerly and anti-affirmative action proponents were galvanized by the Grutter decision, which upheld the consideration of race as one of many factors in higher education admissions, and switched their focus to Michigan.
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| 7/17/05 |
Arthur Fletcher, "The Father of Affirmative Action," Dies at 80
Civil rights advocates are mourning the death of Arthur Fletcher on Tuesday, an early proponent of affirmative action.
Fletcher, dubbed "the father of affirmative action" for his work implementing equal opportunity programs under Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush, died at his Washington home of natural causes. He was 80.
In 1969, as an official in Nixon's Labor Department, Fletcher implemented the "revised Philadelphia plan" which set and enforced equal opportunity standards for companies with federal contracts and labor unions.
He was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights which he chaired from 1990 to 1993. He was also a delegate to the United Nations, executive director of the United Negro College Fund and the first black candidate for lieutenant governor in Washington, where he nearly won against a very popular Democrat.
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civilrights.org |
Suzie Peña Killing Should Unite, Not Divide, Blacks and Latinos
The muffled response of blacks to the police shooting of a Latino toddler shows the distrust and tension between the two ethnic groups.
LOS ANGELES--The instant LAPD officers gunned down 13-year-old Devin Brown following a car chase last February, blacks took to the streets in rage and protest. Black leaders loudly demanded that the officer who shot Brown be fired and prosecuted. Blacks' furious reaction to the Brown killing stands in stark contrast to their response to the recent the killing of 19-month-old Suzie Marie Peña.
Police shot the toddler in the head during a shootout with her father, Jose Raul Peña in South Los Angeles.
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Pacific News Service, Commentary |
Farmworker Collapses in Heat, Dies: The Second such Death in a Year Prompts Labor Leaders to Renew Calls for New Safety Regulations.
The second San Joaquin Valley farmworker in a year has died of heat exposure in triple-digit temperatures, sparking renewed calls from labor leaders for worker safety regulations in extreme heat. Witnesses said Salud Zamudio Rodriguez, 42, was picking bell peppers in Arvin, Calif., south of Bakersfield, in 105-degree heat Wednesday when he complained of feeling ill, according to Lupe Martinez, a vice president of United Farm Workers of America.
Rodriguez began to shudder, collapsed and was taken to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield, where he died an hour later, Martinez said. The Kern County coroner's office attributed his death to heat exposure.
Last year, Asuncion Valdivia, 53, died of heat stroke July 28 after collapsing in a grape field near Bakersfield.
Rodriguez died as a worker safety bill is being considered by the state Legislature.
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| 7/16/05 |
Reports on AIDS Drug Tests on Foster Children Lead to Charges of Racism
It was seen as one of the great successes of AIDS treatment. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, hundreds of children in New York City were dying of AIDS. The only approved drugs were for adults; and many of the patients were foster children. So doctors obtained permission to include foster children in what they regarded as promising drug trials.
By 2000, the number of children under 20 who died of AIDS in the city that year dropped to 13 from more than 100 per year less than a decade before.
But now, just as the trials are receding into history, they are coming under intense scrutiny. A federal agency is investigating whether guidelines for including foster children in trials were violated. The city's child welfare administration has launched an independent inquiry into whether children were harmed. And when the head of the child welfare system testified about the trials at a City Council hearing in May, angry spectators shouted him down.
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| 7/5/05 |
The Voting Rights Act at 40
When the Voting Rights Act hits its 40th anniversary on Aug. 6, the date will hold far more significance than most historic commemorations. That's because the law's history is still being written.
Some of the act's more controversial provisions will be up for renewal by Congress in two years. They include a section that requires several states, mostly in the South, to have every potential change in voting procedures cleared by the Justice Department or a federal court.
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civilrights.org |
ABC Gets Unfriendly 'Neighborhood' Welcome
ABC's extraordinary cancellation of "Welcome to the Neighborhood" less than two weeks before its premiere proves that reality television can only handle so much reality.
With a threatened lawsuit and accusations the network was tone deaf to bigotry, ABC may have traded a major headache for the temporary embarrassment of throwing out a series that was already finished.
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| 7/4/05 |
Stamp Controversy: Mexican Officials Must Come Clean on Racism
Editor's Note: A stamp with a black, Sambo-like cartoon character issued by the Mexican government is a marker of the country's blindness toward its own racial ills.
LOS ANGELES--The Mexican government's sale of the racially offensive cartoon character Memin Pinguin as a commemorative stamp is an outrageous sign that top Mexican officials still refuse to deal with Mexico's racism. But it's just that -- a sign. Racism goes much deeper in the country.
Even while Mexican writers and politicians rail in articles against American racism, many Mexicans are quick to boast of differences in skin color among their own family members.
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| 7/1/05 |
Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
Having spent almost three decades offering legal service to immigrants, Chinese American immigration attorney Manlin Chee is now getting used to serving time instead.
Chee had been a nationally recognized lawyer for her work with immigrants, some of it pro bono, and much of it for Muslims, but things soured for her soon after she appeared on a panel discussing the PATRIOT Act in March 2003.
The public forum at the main library in Greensboro, North Carolina was televised and attracted a large audience. Chee argued passionately that the PATRIOT Act violated the Bill of Rights and threatened the civil rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens.
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Asian Week/ncmonline.com |
More Companies Affected by Slavery Disclosure Laws
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A growing number of companies will have to disclose their past ties to slavery if they want to do business with government units around the nation.
Wachovia is the latest firm to acknowledge its past links to slavery. To do business with the city of Chicago, under the 2003 Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance, it has to disclose whether it had directly or indirectly profited from the 19th century slave trade.
“What this proves is that the ordinance itself is working. It’s very important that we have this information and the ordinance is real,” said Chicago City Councilmember Dorothy Tillman, author of the ordinance. “We are not playing and any company that thinks we’re playing should understand that we mean business. Now we have to meet and see what we are going to do as a people as these companies unfold and we pass along information. How do we really build and pull together our own team?”
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NNPA News Report/ncmonline.com |
Center Focuses on Preventing Abductions of Latino Children
- A disproportionately high 13,000 U.S. Hispanic boys and girls are abducted every year. To learn how it can better serve the Hispanic community, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will hold a series of town-hall meetings this summer.
The meetings are specifically designed "to find out what the Latino community needs from us," says Ju'Riese Colon, who heads up the Center's Hispanic outreach. Additionally, they will give the Center opportunities to share summer safety tips and inform attending families of NCMEC services.
A date hasn't been set yet, but the first meeting will take place in Alexandria, Va., where the Center is located, and it will be followed by sessions in San Antonio, New York City, Los Angeles and Miami.
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ABC Pulls Controversial Reality Series
LOS ANGELES - “Welcome to the Neighborhood,” an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut.
The program had drawn criticism from groups claiming it risked fostering prejudice.
In a statement Wednesday, ABC acknowledged the delicate nature of the series in which families asked to pick a new neighbor are made to expose and overcome their biases.
“Welcome to the Neighborhood” demonstrates what happens when people are forced to “confront preconceived notions of what makes a good neighbor,” the network said.
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Fifa to Curb Racism
Fifa has given itself the power to punish member associations who fail to take proper disciplinary action against racist incidents.
The move, which effectively toughens its existing rules on the matter, was ratified by Fifa's executive committee on Wednesday.
Fifa's move was informed by the wave of racism that hit European club football last season, which affected several African and South American players.
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Mexican Stamps 'Insult People Around the World': Jackson, White House Criticize Cartoon Character Postage
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- U.S. activists called on the Mexican government to withdraw a postage stamp depicting an exaggerated black cartoon character known as Memin Pinguin, saying the offense was worse than recent remarks about blacks made by President Vicente Fox.
Mexico defended the series of five stamps released Wednesday, which depicts a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s that is still published in Mexico.
But the Rev. Jesse Jackson said President Bush should pressure Mexico to withdraw the stamps from the market, saying they "insult people around the world."
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| 6/28/05 |
Runaway Racism
"A man and a woman had me," a sobbing Runaway Bride, Jennifer Wilbanks, told her jilted fiance when she finally phoned home. But not just any man: It was specifically a Hispanic man -- abetted by a white woman -- who supposedly had snatched her from the mean streets of Duluth, Ga., on the eve of her wedding. She told police a graphic tale of horrifying sexual abuse at the hands of this Hispanic beast, whose mobile den of iniquity was a blue van.
It was all a bunch of lies, of course. That Wilbanks and her patience-of-Job boyfriend will pocket a half-million dollars for her flakiness and mendacity (the poor guy has earned his share, in my view) would be a good subject for a future column. But this one has a different purpose: to welcome my Latino brethren into the fraternity of those eligible to be falsely accused of ravishing the delicate flower of white American womanhood. ( Bienvenidos , guys.)
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| 6/27/05 |
Black-Latino Divide: Pretending it's not Real Won't Solve L.A.'s Racial Issue
The issue is painful and explosive, and city and county officials tap dance around it for fear that they'll offend blacks and Latinos or that they'll stir up racial antagonisms. But Los Angeles' black and Latino clash is real and deep-seated, and it goes way beyond the recent spike in hate crimes at L.A. schools.
So far, L.A.'s politicians have taken the cowardly way out and buried the simmering conflict under sociologists' jargon. They toss out terms like "ethnic tensions," "L.A.'s population growing pains" and "changing urban dynamics" to mask the conflict. They kid themselves that by staging feel-good, media-hyped "days of dialogue" with handpicked academics and community leaders, they'll get to the bottom of the conflict.
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| 6/26/05 |
Gays at Receiving End of Bias Claim: Investigation at Castro Bar Opens Dialogue about Prejudice
They are among the most maligned groups in society, but when it comes to discrimination, many say, gays can give as good as they get.
A city investigation of S.F. Badlands, one of the largest and most popular bars in the heart of the Castro neighborhood, has added evidence to that argument. In April, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that the bar discriminated against African American customers and job applicants.
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SFGate.com |
Latino Power? It Will Take Time for the Population Boom to Translate
Normally, in an article of this sort, this would be the place to deploy the "sleeping giant" metaphor, hailing the rise of a powerful new voting bloc that's changing the American political landscape. But the Latino population isn't a cliche; it can't be so easily characterized. The rapid increase in its size has not produced a corresponding growth in its political clout -- and won't for some time to come.
Consider these contrasting pieces of information. The census report that made headlines a few weeks ago showed that Hispanics (that's the Census Bureau's official term) accounted for half of all the population growth in the United States over the past four years. But another, less heralded, census document showed that Hispanics accounted for only one-tenth of the increase in all votes cast in 2004 compared with the 2000 election. The growth of the Latino population as a whole may be gigantic, but only one out of every four Latinos added to the U.S. population is an added voter.
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washingtonpost.com |
Two Years After Grutter, Threats to Affirmative Action Still Strong
As the nation approaches the two-year anniversary of the Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court decision upholding the consideration of race as one of many factors in higher education admissions, advocates in support of affirmative action say that threats to the policy still persist.
On June 23, 2003, the Court held (5-4) that racial diversity was a compelling state interest and that the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policies were narrowly tailored to fit this compelling interest.
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New President, an Ex-GOP Chair, Enters Clash Over Public Airwaves
As the new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Patricia de Stacy Harrison will arrive at the agency during a tumultuous period in public broadcasting.
She comes from the State Department, where she served as assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs, an appointee of President Bush. In her new job, she will oversee a private nonprofit that distributes federal funds to the nation's 1,100 public radio and TV stations.
Harrison, hired by the CPB board of directors Wednesday, edged out more than 200 other candidates and was CPB Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson's top pick for the president's post.
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| 6/21/05 |
Afro-Germans Protest African Village in the ZOO
Afro-Germans Protest African Village in the ZOO
From: Norbert Finzsch [mailto:]
I am a German scholar of African American History and member of H-Net Afro-Am.Today I would like to direct your attention to something that is going on inGermany which, in my opinion, requires the consideration of the internationalscholarly community. It is with utmost indignation that the African Germancommunity has taken notice of the plans to open an "African Village" within the zoo of Augsburg, Germany. The opening of this exhibit is scheduled for July9 - July 12. 2005. "Artisans, silversmiths, basket makers and traditional hairdressers are situated in an unique African steppe landscape" according to the leaflets handed out by the organizers of the show. The conveners obviously are oblivious of the fact that exhibits like the one planned in Augsburg are organized within the German tradition of racist "ethnographic shows"
(Völkerschauen). A letter of reply by Ms. Barbara Jantschke, PhD, from the Augsburg Zoo, directed to an African Swiss citizen underlines the intention, to put Africans on display in the zoo within "an atmosphere of exotism".
It is obvious that the conveners do not understand the historical implications of their project. Even in Germany the impact of colonialism and racism on African societies are nowadays debated in public. The way Africans and African Americans in Germany are perceived and discussed, the way they are present on billboards and in TV ads prove that the colonialist and racist gaze is still very much alive in Germany. This is the direct result of forty years of German colonialism and twelve years of National Socialism. People of color are still
seen as exotic objects (of desire), as basically dehumanized entities withinthe realm of animals. This also explains why a zoo has been selected as site for the exhibit. It is necessary to remind the organizers that in the history of "ethnographic shows" African and German African individuals were used as object for anthropometric tests and ethnological investigations of highly questionable scientific benefit. Many of the artists who performed in these shows in the 1920s and 1930s died from malnutrition and as a consequence of bad living conditions. The Nazis employed a policy of eugenic control, resulting in forced operations to limit the biological reproduction of African Germans or in downright incarceration in concentration camps. Survivors of this policy had
to gain a living as performers in exotic shows. The Augsburg exhibit thus fails to acknowledge the political and social history of persecution in Nazi Germany.
The African German community and concerned individuals like myself call to your attention the need to protest against the opening of the exhibit in the Augsburg Zoo. Please direct your personalized letters of protest to Frau Dr. Barbara Jantschke (Director Zoo Augsburg) at .
Thank you
Norbert Finzsch
Professor of History and
Provost of the University of Cologne
Anglo-Amerikanische Abteilung
Historisches Seminar
Universität zu Köln
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Philosophikum
D 50923 Köln
Tel.
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| 6/20/05 |
Leguizamo Decries Hollywood's Latino Roles
Actor John Leguizamo said he's become disillusioned with the stereotypical handymen and gang member roles Hollywood offered to Latino actors.
"We have to tell the whole plethora of our stories," Leguizamo said Friday during the 23rd annual National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention. "We have the whole spectrum ... in our culture."
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SFGate.com |
A 'Sorry' Excuse From Cochran
Anybody who claims to understand Mississippi has probably never spent much time there. I'm back in my home state fairly frequently these days, and every visit leaves me both hopeful and despairing.
Mississippi is a state of confusion -- the symbol of racism and backwardness and arguably the state that is trying hardest to repair the damage wrought by racism.
And so Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is on trial in Philadelphia -- the Philadelphia of "Mississippi Burning" -- for his alleged role in the 1964 lynching of three civil rights workers. You can argue that the 80-year-old Killen shouldn't be the only white man facing murder charges in the case, but the fact that there is a trial is testament to the work of a once-unimaginable coalition of black, white and Choctaw Mississippians, formed specifically to help purge the state of its racist past.
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| 6/16/05 |
Once Shunned as Racist, Storybook Bestseller in Japan: 'Little Black Sambo' was Pulled from Stores in 1988 for its Blackface- Style Drawings. Now, Amid Little Protest, a Reprint is a Huge Hit.
TOKYO — A writer's death can do wonders for pushing that back catalog. Less drastically, a few books acquire cachet by being banned.
Which may help explain why a reissue of "Little Black Sambo," a turn-of-the-20th century illustrated children's book attacked as being racist, is on the bestseller lists in Japan this spring.
The Japanese edition of "Sambo" was a big favorite here, from the time it was introduced in 1953 until it was yanked from bookstores in 1988 after a swift and effective anti-racism campaign.
The rap against it in Japan echoed that heard in the West years earlier: Sambo was a racist term for American blacks and illustrator Frank Dobias' portrayal of the main character, with his bulging white eyes and exaggerated, thick lips, was tantamount to a boy drawn in blackface.
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latimes.com |
The Disappeared: Families of Missing Migrants Live in Limbo
VILLA MORELOS, Mexico – The soft crunch of tires on dirt often rouses María López from her sleep. Her body tenses with nervous anticipation as she props herself up in the dark, listening for a familiar footstep, a familiar voice.
Alejandra González, whose husband Amparo Calvillo López disappeared near the border. Photo by Nancee E. Lewis / Union-Tribune
Sometimes she hears people talking in the distance, or a dog barking. Then the tires continue rolling down the road, toward the center of this small country town, and there is silence. She lies in a room her son built, unable to sleep.
"I keep hoping there is going to be a knock on the door, and that it's going to be him," says María, a diminutive widow who habitually wipes away tears with the edge of her dark shawl. "That it's my son, and he's come home."
But her son never knocks.
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Activists Blast SF Museum's Exhibit of Tibetan Art
SAN FRANCISCO--Priceless objects dating back to the 9th century, such as a gold and turquoise-encrusted drinking cup made from a human skull, an ornate copper and
gilt statue of the thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara, a brightly colored silk thankga (scroll) painting of a serene White Tara -- are they harmless exotica, or the latest Chinese propaganda tools?
These items are among nearly 200 pieces to be shown June 12 through Sept. 11 in "Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World" at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
The San Francisco exhibit (the show has been to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Rubin Museum in New York City) is one of the very first times many of the treasures will be seen in the West. They were left behind when the Dalai Lama fled Chinese-occupied Tibet in 1959 for exile in India.
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| 6/15/05 |
Lawmakers Leave Texas Admissions Law Intact
The legislative session in Texas concluded on May 24 without the House and Senate reaching agreement on proposals to modify a state law guaranteeing students in the top 10 percent of their high school class automatic admission to any state public university.
Enacted in 1997, the law was intended to provide underrepresented minorities with access to colleges and universities, following a federal court decision banning the consideration of race in university admissions.
Senate and House legislation proposing modifications to the law differed dramatically.
Senate bill (SB) 333 was introduced by State Senate Education Committee Chair Senator Royce West, D. Dallas, an advocate of the top 10 percent law. SB 333 would keep intact the basic provisions of the law, while adding extra curriculum requirements for students seeking to qualify for the program.
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civilrights.org |
Justices Target Race Bias in Juries
The Supreme Court, overturning the murder convictions of a black man in California and another in Texas by nearly all-white juries, warned judges and prosecutors Monday that they must put an end to racial discrimination in the selection of jurors.
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civilrights.org |
Senate Apologizes For Not Enacting Anti-Lynching Legislation, A Look at Journalist and Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells
The Senate passes a resolution to apologize for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation. We hear excerpts of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu speaking on the Senate floor and we talk about the history of lynching, focusing on pioneering journalist and anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells. We speak with her grandson, sociologist Troy Duster as well as historian Nell Irvin Painter. [includes rush transcript]
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Pomp and Conflicting Stances: Crowd Reaction is Mixed as the Governor Stresses the Importance of Community Colleges in Commencement Address in Santa Monica.
Graduating students mostly cheered, but some audience members booed Tuesday as Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to one of his alma maters, Santa Monica College, to deliver his first commencement address as governor of California.
Schwarzenegger, who Monday ordered a special election that could trim the power of the Legislature, mostly avoided politics in his address, concentrating instead on the importance of community colleges such as Santa Monica in California's system of higher education.
The cheers and boos were mixed as Randal Lawson, the college's executive vice president, introduced the governor.
Applause prevailed when Lawson began naming Schwarzenegger's films, especially "The Terminator."
But catcalls and jeers grew louder when Lawson mentioned Schwarzenegger's election as governor.
Schwarzenegger wore a black academic gown but no cap, with an orange cowl, signifying his business degree, draped across his shoulders.
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latimes.com |
House Votes To Curb Patriot Act: FBI's Power to Seize Library Records Would Be Halted
The House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI's ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations.
Bush has threatened to veto any measure that weakens those powers. The surprise 238 to 187 rebuke to the White House was produced when a handful of conservative Republicans, worried about government intrusion, joined with Democrats who are concerned about personal privacy.
One provision of the Patriot Act makes it possible for the FBI to obtain a wide variety of personal records about a suspected terrorist -- including library transactions -- with an order from a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, where the government must meet a lower threshold of proof than in criminal courts.
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| 6/14/05 |
The 30 Best Companies For Diversity
What makes a company good at diversity? The answer to that simple question has become increasingly complicated over the years. The bottom-line benefits of diversity and relatively new phenomenon of diversity lists published by mainstream magazines have created a seemingly endless variety of platforms and measures with which to discuss, evaluate, and celebrate effective diversity practices. Depending on who's doing the measuring and which way the winds of political correctness are blowing, the inclusion of everyone from white women and the disabled to older workers and gays and lesbians has been upheld as proof of a company's profound commitment to equal opportunity and inclusion.
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| 6/13/05 |
Mississippians Wary of Civil-Rights Trial
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - Hicks. Rednecks. Racists. People who live in this town of 7,300 have heard the epithets slung their way for decades.
And many -- black and white -- cringe as they anticipate how the world will view their town when reputed Ku Klux Klansman and part-time preacher Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial today in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
"People make it sound like it's a hick town. It's not," said Bryon Whitley, a white 21-year-old who works in a music store on the downtown square, just across from the red brick Neshoba County Courthouse.
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BlackAmericaweb.com |
Repairing Senate's Record on Lynching: 'Long Overdue' Apology Would Be Congress's First for Treatment of Blacks
Anna Holmes remembers hearing about the bridge when she was a little girl.
It stood somewhere near the spot where the Collington and Western branches of the Patuxent River met in Upper Marlboro, less than a quarter-mile from the Marlboro jail.
Fred Tutman of Prince George's County sits next to a tree on his family's land that a previous owner used for lynching.
"I used to hear them talking about the lynchings," said Holmes, 79, who grew up in central Prince George's County.
It was on the bridge that a black man named Stephen Williams, accused of manhandling a white woman, was beaten and hanged about 3 in the morning on Oct. 20, 1894. A masked mob snatched him from his jail cell and dragged him as he pleaded for his life.
"When the Marlboro bridge was reached the rope was quickly tied to the railing and amid piteous groans Williams was hurled into eternity," The Washington Post reported.
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More Hispanics Gain Foothold in Housing Market: Both Longtime Residents, New Immigrants Part of Growing Homeownership Trend in Area
Two decades after coming here from El Salvador, Blanca Mejia de Vasquez badly wanted to own a house not too far from her Northwest Washington neighborhood, but the prices were too high for her income as a cosmetologist.
Her solution was first to team up with her mother, a restaurant worker, to qualify for a mortgage and then to agree, reluctantly, to broaden her home search into other areas of the city.
Blanca Mejia de Vasquez, second from right, pooled money with mother Blanca Mejia Ortiz, left, to find a house. They and children Jonnathan and Herson Vasquez live in Northeast Washington. Vasquez had hoped to find a home in a Northwest community where she was living, but the prices were too high for her income. "I pay something [to] me, not to somebody else. In the future, I can sell the house and it's my money," she said.
Today, she and her mother own a house with a backyard and three parking spaces in Northeast. They moved in, along with her three teenage sons, in March.
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| 6/8/05 |
Racial Bias Found in Suburban NYC Rentals
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Tests designed to uncover discrimination found that nearly half the real estate agencies in New York City's northern suburbs treated blacks and Hispanics unfairly, an equal-housing group alleged Monday.
Findings related to the most egregious offenders -- seven of 25 Westchester County agencies -- are being referred to state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer or to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for investigation, said Toni Downes, executive director of Westchester Residential Opportunities.
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| 6/4/05 |
Open Letter to Human Rights Watch: Stop Dismissing Victims of Hatian Police
TO: Human Rights Watch
RE: Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Renewal
of the Mandate of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in
Haiti (MINUSTAH) DATE: May 17, 2005
Dear HRW,
In your recent letter to the U.N. Security Council dated May 16, 2005 you stated, "During a recent mission to Haiti, Human Rights Watch documented daily acts of violence in Port-au-Prince. We found that much of the violence is perpetrated by armed gangs claiming affiliation with former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Despite security operations recently carried out jointly by MINUSTAH and the Haitian National Police (HNP), neighborhoods such as Cite Soleil remain paralyzed by violence." You then follow this statement several paragraphs down with:
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National Conference of Black Lawyers Demands: Hands Off Assata Shakur
The announcement that a $1 million bounty has been placed on the head of exiled freedom fighter Assata Shakur sends a clear, unmistakable message that the U.S. government will stop at nothing to perpetuate the systemic denial of the most basic human rights of African people born and/or residing in the Americas. The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) demands that the U.S. government immediately withdraw the bounty offer, and permanently cease its pursuit of Assata Shakur as such is both illegal and unjustifiable under international human rights laws.
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California Students Boost Anti-Arnold Protests
Editor's Note: A raucous, limousine-rocking protest led by California students angry over the state of public schools marks a new political moment, the writer says.
SAN JOSE--In the heart of Silicon Valley, in front of the very elegant Fairmont Hotel, a bunch of fired up students and nurses stopped a limo trying to enter the hotel. They surrounded it and rocked it back and forth. It looked like they might tip it over completely. Union officials, the ones who initially called everyone here, now had to personally escort the limo out of the teeth of danger. The besiegers only relented when they were told their target, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was not inside the vehicle.
When limousines are protected by union officials in Silicon Valley, you know California is in a hot political moment.
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Pacific News Service, Commentary/Analysis |
Slain Soldier's Mom Snubbed By Gold Star Mothers
A Filipino American whose son was killed last year in Afghanistan was turned down by American Gold Star Mothers Inc. because of a technicality: she is not a U.S. citizen.
However, Ligaya Lagman, mother of slain 27-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Anthony Lagman, is a permanent resident and a taxpayer. Lawmakers who rushed to Lagman’s defense said the group should change it rules and admit her to the organization of mothers whose soldier sons died in line of duty.
“There’s nothing we can do because that’s what our organization says: You have to be an American citizen,” national President Ann Herd said last Thursday. “We can’t go changing the rules every time the wind blows.”
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| 6/1/05 |
Column of the Americas: They're Taking our Jobs
Washington D.C.-- After presenting on the new language of exclusion during a recent Black Issues in Higher Education conference, the first question posed is: "Many Blacks feel that illegal aliens are taking jobs from African Americans. Can you comment?"
The question is tension-laden and comes on the heels of Mexican President Vicente Fox's fumbling statement about "Mexicans taking jobs that even Blacks won't do."
"In anti-immigrant rhetoric, "illegal aliens" translates into Mexicans and Central Americans. Yet, this is not an anti-immigrant group. Quite the opposite as many here in the packed ballroom are civil rights veterans.
As such, the question needs to be answered, not danced around. And so here, the same question is posed -- stripped of its niceties: Are Mexicans taking jobs from Blacks?
The truth is, it's employers who have the power to give or take jobs, not other workers. Yet, the idea of Mexicans taking jobs from Americans (and of draining social services) began during the early 20th century, resulting in periodic mass deportations. In the 1980s, someone within the anti-immigrant movement decided that these jobs - "the ones no one else would do" -- belonged to Blacks. While this became an unquestioned political mantra, no one questioned why Blacks had been remanded to these worst jobs. In the 1990s, these jobs also came to belong to "native born Hispanics." And thus, we can see the evolution of this divisive discourse. Fox's answer was but a bumbling variation on this theme.
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Free New Mexican |
Real ID Act: When DMV Becomes an Immigration Enforcer
Whether Americans like it or not, they would now need to wait in line at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) thanks to the Real ID Act the Senate has just passed unanimously.
The law requires states to “verify applicants’ legal U.S. residency status before issuing drivers’ licenses — part of an effort to curb illegal immigration and tighten border security.”
The bill likewise would make harder for motorists to renew their licenses by mail or Internet once the law takes effect, in some three years.
The Real ID Act was attached to the $82-billion emergency spending bill that pays for the war in Iraq and provides tsunami aid to Southeast Asia. Since the House already passed the bill, it does not require a second guess to expect that President Bush will sign it.
It’s too early to gauge the impact of the new law. The Homeland Security Department needs to do “create detailed regulations to implement the legislation.”
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Philippine News, Commentary |
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| 5/24/05 |
GOP Snatches Page From Clarence Thomas Playbook For Brown
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ncmonline.com |
Connerly Campaign Contribution Lawsuit Settled, Proposition 54 Backers Disclosed
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civilright.org |
When Hispanics get Mugged, Bias or Thuggery?
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The Star Ledger |
Is L.A.’s New Latino Mayor A Threat to Blacks’ Clout? Experts Say No
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Black America Web, News Report |
New Immigration Proposals: A Fast Track to the Past
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Pacific News Service, Commentary |
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| 5/18/05 |
Villaraigosa Won With Support From All Sorts of Voters
Antonio Villaraigosa won a crushing victory in the Los Angeles mayoral race by spurring a record Latino turnout and broadening his support across the city among voters of every stripe, who deserted incumbent James K. Hahn in droves.
For all the significance of Villaraigosa's breakthrough as the first Latino elected mayor of modern Los Angeles, ethnic pride was just part of what powered his 17-point victory in Tuesday`s runoff.
By overwhelming margins, Villaraigosa captured Democrats, liberals and younger voters, according to a Los Angeles Times exit poll. He also won a majority of San Fernando Valley residents, union members and Jewish voters. His support among blacks more than doubled from what he won in his 2001 mayoral contest against Hahn -- though it fell just shy of half.
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latimes.com |
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| 5/17/05 |
City's College-Bound Rate a Third Less Than Thought
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civilrights.org |
Assata: My Side of the Story: Open Letter Written in 1998 from Havana, Cuba
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SFBayview.com |
Africa's Legacy in Mexico: Mexico's Third Root
Wherever people gather in the poor fishing villages of Costa Chica on Mexico's southwest coast--in their homes, on the streets, in the town squares during festivals--someone is likely to step forward and start singing. These impromptu performers regale their audience with songs of romance, tragedy, comedy, and social protest, all inspired by local events and characters. At the heart of the songs, called "corridos," is a sense of human dignity and a desire for freedom rooted in the lives and history of the people of Costa Chica, many of whom are descendants of escaped slaves.
The corridos reflect oral traditions inherited from Africa. The words are improvised, and a corrido that brings applause is apt to be committed to memory, to be sung again and again as an oral chronicle of local life. The lyrics are also rich in symbols, a tradition that may have started when singers among the first slaves invented "code words" to protest the cruelties of their masters.
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7-Year-Old Chief Wahoo Case Ends: High Court Won't Hear Five Protesters' Appeal
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The Plain Dealer |
Afro-Mexicans Face Discrimination
WASHINGTON During a discussion held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, university researchers said Wednesday that Afro-Mexicans are often ignored by the government and experience social discrimination.
The black population in Mexico is "virtually invisible in the national conscience," said Bobby Vaughn of Notre Dame de Namur University. Vaughn has researched the black population on the coast of Guerrero and Oaxaca for several years.
"We live in a racially defined society," says Sagrario Cruz-Carretero, an anthropologist at the University of Veracruz. CruzCarretero, who identifies with the black population, said he has encountered the "stigma" of being black in Mexico.
"Whiteness is a symbol of the upper-class," says Cruz-Carretero.
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| 5/16/05 |
Anti-Muslim Paranoia Lands Two Teens in Federal Detention
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The Final Call, News Report/ncmonlin.com |
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| 5/10/05 |
Minorities feel out of place at Illinois
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Daily Illini |
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| 5/9/05 |
Algerians Remember Massacares of 1945
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washingtonpost.com |
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| 5/8/05 |
Sagging Arnold Wants To Pump You Up With Diversionary Issue
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ncmonline.com |
A Clever Admission of Racism
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sydney.indymedia.org |
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| 5/5/05 |
California Border Patrol Is Proposed
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latimes.com |
Pivotal Killing in Civil Rights Era Revisited: The Justice Department says Emmett Till's Murderers may not have Acted Alone in 1955.
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latimes.com |
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| 5/2/05 |
Educator, Civil Rights Figure Clark Dies
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washingtonpost.com |
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| 4/29/05 |
Nation of Islam May Intervene at LA School Site of Racial Violence: Jefferson High Scene of Black/Brown racial Violence
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Wave Newspapers/ncmonline |
9/11 Widow, Two Kids Face Deportation
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Filipino Reporter, News Feature |
Broad Coalition of Organizations, Lawmakers Urges Swift Passage of Genetic Discrimination Legislation
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civilrights.org |
Student Groups Rally to Counter UWCRs
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civilrights.org |
Some Faculty Call for More Diversity
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civilrights.org |
Landlords Accused of Rejecting Vouchers
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civilrights.org |
The Higher the SAT Scores, the More the House Is Worth
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civilrights.org |
Opposition to High School Exit Exam Growing
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civilrights.org |
Howard Denies 'Racist' Policies
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BBC News |
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| 4/25/05 |
Firefighters Face Hate Crime Charges, They Threatened Man with Gun, used Slurs, Police Say
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JSOnline |
Sudan: Nuba Feel Betrayed
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BlackPressUSA.com |
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| 4/24/05 |
School Boundaries Often Lines in the Sand
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latimes.com |
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| 4/23/05 |
Black Vote 'Holds Power Balance'
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BBC News |
Will AIMS reduce minority graduation rate?
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azcentral.com |
Students Feel the Strain of 2 Brawls, Crackdown: Jefferson High bans white T-shirts; Latino and Black Friends try Not to be Seen Together.
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latimes.com |
Koizumi Voices 'Deep Remorse': Japan's Premier, Trying to Defuse Tensions and Calm Markets, Offers Regret Over Wartime Acts
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latimes.com |
A Black-Latino Coalition Emerges in Los Angeles
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New York Times |
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| 4/21/05 |
Quotas for Asian Americans? Yes and No
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washingtonpost.com |
Raising Mixed Race Awareness
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Pacific Citizen, News Feature |
S.F. Chinese Community Leaders Worry About Shrinking Representation in City Government
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Ming Pao Daily, News Report/ncmonline.com |
Radio Salesman Awarded $600,000 in Racial Hostility Complaint
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AP New Jersey |
| |
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| 4/19/05 |
Illegal Immigration Policy Is at Crossroads in Senate
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civilrights.org |
Affirmative Action Debate Heats Up in Washington State
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International Examiner, Commentary/ncmonline.com |
Lawsuit Contends Bay Area Transportation Funding Has Racial Overtones
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KTVU.COM |
| |
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| 4/16/05 |
'Dessa Rose' puts Slavery Story to Music
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washingtontimes.com |
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| 4/13/05 |
Jews Target Caterpillar Shareholder Effort: Divesting Stock because of Israeli Bulldozing of Palestinian Homes is Unfair, Some Leaders Say
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latimes.com |
| |
| |
| 4/12/05 |
Report Documents Housing Segregation 'Crisis'
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civilrights.org |
Controversial Japanese Textbooks Damage Relations with China and Korea
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Lachesis Wire/ncmonline.com |
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| 4/5/05 |
Crisis of Indian Children Intensifies as Families Fail
|
New York Times |
Armenian Youth March for Genocide Recognition
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Asbarez Armenian Daily, News Report/ncmonline |
Europe Needs More Immigrants, But Sees Spike in Racism
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Pacific News Service, News Feature |
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| 4/3/05 |
Debt Slavery: What the Bankruptcy Bill Could Do for You
|
The Black Commentator |
Bush Renews Plea for Immigration Leniency Despite Congress Opposition
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Filipino Express, News Report/ncmonline.com |
Blacks in L.A. Reach Boiling Point Over Racial Attacks
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The Final Call, News Report/ncmonline.com |
University Admissions Law Could Face Change
|
civilright.org |
Activists Seek Action in '46 Lynching
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civilrights.org |
| |
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| 4/1/05 |
Security Council Refers Sudan Crimes to ICC: Khartoum Says It Will Defy U.N. Resolution
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washingtonpost.com |
| |
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| 3/30/05 |
Cesar Chavez: A Great American
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thruthout.org |
| |
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| 3/29/05 |
L.A. Becoming a Human Relations Model
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Wave Report/ncmonline.com |
| |
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| 3/28/05 |
The Wrong Choice for Civil Rights
|
washingtonpost.com |
The “Other’ Feeding Tubes
|
www.blackpressusa.com |
Petition Drive Launched To Keep Voting Rights Act
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sacobserver.com |
| |
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| 3/27/05 |
10,000 Peacekeepers to Be Sent to Sudan, U.N. Council Decides
|
New York Times |
California Latinos use Voting-Rights Law to Force District Elections: School Board in the Central Valley had no Hispanic Trustees
|
SFGate.com |
School Puts Jefferson's Legacy to Test
|
latimes.com |
| |
| |
| 3/24/05 |
American Indian Media Grapples With Red Lake Shootings
|
Pacific News Service, News Feature |
| |
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| 3/21/05 |
C-Span's Plan to Cover Talk on Holocaust Is Criticized
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civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 3/13/05 |
Don't Go Nuclear
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civilrights.org |
Myers "Not Fit" for Judgeship, Say Native Americans
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civilrights.org |
NAACP Gains Ally on Legislation to Revive Race as Factor in Admissions
|
civilrights.org |
500 Tell Gov. to Leave Schools Alone
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civilrights.org |
| |
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| 3/12/05 |
Racial Equity Report Card Flunks Scwharzenegger
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The Black Commentator |
'Capture An Illegal Immigrant Day' Inflames Ethnic Media
|
NCM, News Report |
Salt, Faith and Patience: Remembering Gandhi's March to the Sea
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
High court is asked to take reparations case
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Boston Globe |
| |
| |
| 3/8/05 |
Blacks Go to Court to Stop Racism in Auto Lending
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Sun Reporter, News Report/ncmonline.com |
| |
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| 3/7/05 |
The Right to Vote With No 'Ifs,' 'Ands' or 'Buts.'
|
civilrights.org |
US Opposes Brazil Proposal for Anti-Racism Pact at the OAS
|
Brazil Magazine |
Blacks Denounce Brazil for Racism at the OAS
|
Brazil Magazine |
| |
| |
| 3/2/05 |
Issues of Race Grip Los Angeles Mayoral Contest
|
Pacific News Service, News Analysis |
Hollywood's 25 Worst APA Blunders
|
AsianWeek, Commentary/ncmonline.com |
E-Store Stops Selling Underwear with Religious Symbols
|
India West , News Report/ncmonline.com |
Skinheads Beat Unmercifully American Diplomat in Kiev
|
AntiRacismNet.org |
Glover's Film Company has Serious Mission
|
USA Today |
Aborigines Charge Australia With Racial Vilification and Genocide at UN
|
Independent Media Center |
Still on the March 40 Years After 'Bloody Sunday'
|
civilrights.org |
Professor: Racism May be Hidden, But it's Not Gone
|
civilrights.org |
| |
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| 2/28/05 |
California School Districts Shortchange Students of Color
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San Francisco Bay View/ncmonline.com |
Issue of Illegals Roiling Arizona New Law Denies Public Services to Such Immigrants
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SFGate.com |
Inland Empire Sees Rise in Hate Crimes, Bucking Trend in State: The Tally Stands Out in Regions Where Violations have Declined. Authorities Say the Stimulus is an Influx of Racial Minorities.
|
latimes.com |
Do Asian Americans Count in L.A.?
|
civilrights.org |
An Academy Awards Program Worth Watching
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BlackPressUSA.com |
| |
| |
| 2/24/05 |
Blacks Must Step Up to Fund King Center, Monument
|
ncmonline.com |
Law Students to Give Free Help on Immigration
|
Filipino Express, News Report/ncmonline.com |
| |
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| 2/22/05 |
Ban on Illegals in College Rejected
|
washingtontimes.com |
Threat of Draft Will Tame Warlike U.S. Populace
|
The Black Commentator |
| |
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| 2/20/05 |
Native American College Shuts Down-D-Q University, which Opened in 1971, Lost its Accreditation and $1million in Federal Funding. Some Students Have Refused to Leave.
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latimes.com |
| |
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| 2/17/05 |
Chinese Immigrants Appeal to Get Daughter Back: The Girl, 6, Remains with Foster Parents After Her Mother and Father lost Custody in a Ruling That Some Say Was Colored by Cultural Bias.
|
latimes.com |
Alleged Racial Incidents Shatter Security of Santa Clarita Valley: Some Parents who Moved from Los Angeles for a Better Family Environment Say Their Children are Now Under Threat or Attack.
|
latimes.com |
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| 2/15/05 |
Catastrophe In Asia India's Self-Reliance Shows its Limits Caste Prejudice, Red Tape, Access to Villages are Hampering Government's Relief Efforts
|
SFgate.com |
Reds, Blues, And the Color of Ray
|
washingtonpost.com |
Remembering Ossie Davis 1917-2005: Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte, Bill Clinton Pay Tribute to the Famed Actor & Civil Rights Activist
|
Democracynow.org |
Army Rights Wrong to 19th Century African-American Chaplain
|
US Army |
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| 2/14/05 |
A Filipino-American Effort to Harbor Jews Is Honored
|
New York Times |
Immigrant Cleaners Win Labor Suit
|
Filipino Express/ncmonline.com |
Liberals, Conservatives Oppose New 'Anti-Immigrant' Bill
|
Pacific News Service, News Feature |
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| 2/9/05 |
HOT 97: Why Asian Americans Are Pissed & What We Should
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daveyd.com |
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| 2/6/05 |
Black Unionist Warn "Don't Restructure Us Out"
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The Black Commentator |
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| 2/5/05 |
A Lifelong Lesson in Justice: Gathering Will Pay Tribute to the Mostly White Teachers Who Followed their Japanese Students Into WWII Internment Camps.
|
latimes.com |
Ossie Davis, Actor, Writer and Eloquent Champion of Racial Justice, Dies at 87
|
New York Times |
| |
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| 2/3/05 |
Commentary: Confronting Slavery's Legacy
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washingtontimes.com |
Apology to American Indians
|
Native American Village, Commentary/ncmonline.com |
Hollywood Stars Shine for Immigrant Licenses
|
El Mensajero , News Report/ncmonline.com |
| |
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| 1/31/05 |
Racial Issues Lose Urgency, Study
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latimes.com |
| |
| |
| 1/30/05 |
Nomination of Gonzales Divides Hispanic Groups
|
Seattle Times |
African Americans Score in Oscar Nominations
|
Wave Newspapers/ncmonline.com |
Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking in Vietnam Gains Momentum, Supporters
|
Viet Weekly, News Report/ncmonline.com |
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| 1/26/05 |
Bush Shifts Focus to Race in Debate on Social Security
|
latimes.com |
NY Radio Station Suspends Morning Crew Over Tsunami `Parody'
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SFGate.com |
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| 1/23/05 |
If Iraq Can Get Its Country Back, Why Can't American Indians?
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Native American Village/ncmonline.com |
Self-respect and Changing Attitudes Boost Australia's Aborigine Population
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Scotsman.com |
| |
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| 1/21/05 |
U.S. Suspends Funding for Key Farmworker Survey
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
JP Morgan admits predecessors' ties to slavery
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Chicago Sun-Times |
| |
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| 1/20/05 |
Afro-Latinos: Discovering Identity, Organizing
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The Final Call/news report |
Black and Asian People Still Live in Poverty
|
The Independent Online |
Clarke Orders Crackdown on race Inequality
|
Guardian Unlimited |
| |
| |
| 1/13/05 |
Preying Through the Pulpit
|
latimes.com |
James Forman Dies at 76; Was Pioneer in Civil Rights
|
New York Times |
Mexico’s Controversial Migrant Guide Defended
|
El Mensajero/ncmonline.com |
What the Gonzales Nomination Means for Latinos
|
La Prensa San Diego/ncmonline.com |
Gonzales Appointment Latest Step in Browning of Justice
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
Aboriginal TV Channel to help Correct Stereotypes
|
Taipei Times |
| |
| |
| 1/9/05 |
Affirmative Action Ban on Way to Ballot
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Detroit Free Press |
| |
| |
| 1/6/05 |
Reputed Klansman Arrested in 1964 Neshoba County Cvil Rights Slayings
|
Associated Press |
| |
| |
| 1/5/05 |
Racist Discrimination against Aboriginal people in Darwin
|
Independent Media Center |
Shooting Ignites Hmong Racial Tensions
|
Voice of the Valley, Pacific News Service, News Report |
Frist Seeks Speedy Approval of a Bush Judicial Appointment
|
civilrights.org |
Group Seeking Affirmative Action Ban Plans to Submit Petitions Thursday
|
civilrights.org |
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| 1/3/05 |
California Debates Sending Foreign-Born Inmates Back Home
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Eastern Group Publications/ncmonline.com |
Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Dies
|
New York Times |
Robert Matsui, Shirley Chisolm, Die
|
civilrights.org |
| |
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| 12/29/04 |
Bush's Hispanic Vote Dissected
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
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| 12/27/04 |
Why Some Politicians Need Their Prisons to Stay Full
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 12/22/04 |
Report: Bush Made Gains With Hispanic Men
|
Guardian Unlimited |
| |
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| 12/21/04 |
Monday Gas Boycotts Attempt to Shake Governor
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Eastern Group Publications/ncmonline.com |
NAACP Seeks to Reopen Fla. Bombing Probe
|
blackamericaweb.com |
Australian Prime Minister Accused of Blocking Aborigine Vote
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Black Britain |
| |
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| 12/19/04 |
The True Figures About Aborigines
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The Age |
Racism, European Style
|
rawstory.com |
Racism, European Style
|
rawstory.com |
Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls AIDS Drug Probe
|
Guardian Unlimited |
An Opportunity? Why Arafat's Death and Bush's Second Term Won't Help
|
Zmag.org |
Another Water Revolt Begins in Bolivia
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
| |
| |
| 12/18/04 |
Rights Groups Reassess Strategies: Black, Hispanic Organizations to Undergo Leadership Changes
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
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| 12/17/04 |
Poll: Nearly Half of all Americans Support Restricting Rights of Muslim Americans
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SFGate.com |
| |
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| 12/14/04 |
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
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Common Dreams News Center |
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
|
Common Dreams News Center |
Southern White Counties a Desert for the Democrats
|
latimes.com |
| |
| |
| 12/12/04 |
Man Uses Judgment Money to Fight Discrimination
|
The World Journal/ncmonline.com |
Chinese Mull Losses in San Francisco Elections
|
Sing Tao Daily, World Journal/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 12/9/04 |
A Wartime Story of a Brave American
|
Chicago Sun Times |
New Voting Method in San Francisco Hurts New Candidates
|
Sing Tao Daily/ncmonline.com |
Play on Armenian Genocide to Debut on Broadway
|
Asbarez Armenian Daily/ncmonline.com |
Controversial Study Underscores Need for Affirmative Action, Say Critics
|
civilrights.org |
UK No Longer Welcomes Immigrants
|
The Economic Times |
| |
| |
| 12/7/04 |
Aborigines' Dark Island Home
|
BBC.COM |
Civil Rights Chairman Resists Ouster by Bush
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 12/3/04 |
Indigenous Hunger Strike at United Nations
|
IndianCountry.com |
Are Black Ministers Wimping Out?
|
NNP Commentary/ncmonline.com |
The Gonzales Debate: Identity Politics Meets the Right Wing
|
Zmag.org |
Civil Rights and Human Rights Groups Urge Senators to Closely Scrutinize Gonzales Nomination
|
civilrights.org |
Charter School Diversity Producing Diverse Results
|
civilrights.org |
Op-Ed: Killing Kids
|
civilrights.org |
Latino Groups Poised to Challenge Anti-Immigrant Proposition 200
|
civilrights.org |
Aboriginal Boy Dragged with Rope Around Neck
|
Cape Times |
Bush's Gain with Hispanics Revised
|
Philly.com |
Race Hate Crimes 'On Increase'
|
BBC.COM |
Black Dems Must Clean Up Own House
|
The Black Commentator |
| |
| |
| 11/26/04 |
Racists Target Black SoccerPlayers
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 11/23/04 |
Community Mourns Death of Chinese American Author
|
International Examiner/ncmonline.com |
New FBI Data Reports Increase in Hate Crimes for 2003
|
civilrights.org |
UC Regents Reject Ward Connerly's 'Multiracial' Checkbox
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 11/18/04 |
UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count: Research Team Calls for Investigation.
|
U.C. Berkeley |
| |
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| 11/16/04 |
Endowment Tied to Sudan
|
Harvard Crimson Online Edition |
Almost Ten Percent of Young Black Men Behind Bars
|
Amsterdam News/ncmonline.com |
Homeless Voter -- Losing at the Polls But Finding a Way Back In
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
Homeless Immigrants Suffer Vanishing Dreams
|
Eastern Group Publications/ncmonline.com |
Australian Aborigines Become First Target for “Welfare Reform”
|
World Socialist |
Survey Finds Racism is Still Rife in Churches
|
Pretoria News |
Aboriginal Protesters Scuffle with Police
|
TaiwanNews.com |
| |
| |
| 11/14/04 |
Development Fellowship Honors Carol Pitchersky
|
civilrights.org |
Activists Want Divestment from Sudan
|
blackamericaweb.com |
Spanish-Language Media Soothe Concerns, Express Ire Over New 'Anti-Immigrant' Law in Arizona
|
La Estrella de Tucson, La Opinion, La Voz, La Jornada, El Universal, News Report,/ncmonline.com |
Does Affirmative Action Hurt Black Law Students?
|
Chronicle of Higher Education/FrontPage.com |
No Real Peace Without Justice
|
The Black Commentator |
| |
| |
| 11/13/04 |
Using Courts in Brazil to Strengthen an Indian Identity
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 11/10/04 |
Arizona Initiative Inspires Others
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 11/7/04 |
Army Recruiters: No Latino Left Behind
|
El Mensajero, News Feature/ncmonline.com |
Chinese American Vote in California Reflects Economic Divide
|
Sing Tao Daily, World Journal, Ming Pao Daily News/ncmonline.com |
One Nation, Handcuffed Together
|
Common Dreams News Center |
Thousands March Against Racism, Anti-Semitism in France
|
www.expatica.com |
NAACP Sues School District Over Discipline
|
Gaurdian Unlimited |
| |
| |
| 11/4/04 |
'Vote or die'? -- Not exactly: Activism, Not One Election, Changes the World
|
Cape Cod Times |
Unspoken Fear Among Hispanics
|
DenverPost.com |
Hispanic Vote Key
|
New York Post |
Blacks Roll to Polls: Estimated 3 Million New Voters Came Out
|
blackamericaweb.comnews |
"Is the Top 10 Plan Unfair?"
|
civilrights.org |
Still Standing, Still Fighting, Still Here
|
thruthout.org |
A Victory for 'Values,' But Whose?
|
thruthout.org |
Waking Up to Reality: Strategic Proposals for the Way Ahead
|
Zmagazine |
| |
| |
| 11/2/04 |
Sudan Army Surrounds Darfur Refugee Camps
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 10/25/04 |
Report Traces Injustice in Deportations
|
Philippine News/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 10/21/04 |
Accused of Killings, He Still Gets Back Pay
|
New York Times |
Brewing Racism in Canada
|
The New Nation |
Opponents to Sriking Vestiges of Segregation from Alabama Constitution Accused of Racism
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 10/18/04 |
Renewed FBI Dragnet Could Scare Off Muslim Vote
|
Pacific News Service, News Feature |
Kerry Seeks to Connect to Blacks
|
latimes.com |
Prince Video Depicts Terror, Sparks Outcry
|
blackamericaweb.com |
Bush: Too little, too late for Native Americans
|
Indiancointry.com |
Imagining America if George Bush Chose the Supreme Court
|
civilrights.org |
Lawsuit Over Green Cards A Class Action
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 10/15/04 |
9/ll Bill’s Anti-Immigrant Amendments Draw Criticism
|
Vida en el Valle, News Report/ncmonline.com |
Brazilians Battle Indians: 'This Land Is Our Land'
|
New York Times |
In Latino Communities, Few Are Lukewarm About Chance to Vote
|
SFGate.com |
Black Voter Registration Breaking Records
|
www.ncmonline.com/The Back Commentator |
New Report Finds that U.S. Criminal Justice System is Unjust and Unfair to Latinos, Latinos are Disproportionately Incarcerated and Face Systemic Discriminatory Practices
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 10/10/04 |
Schwarzenegger Rejects Pro-Immigrant Legislation
|
Philippine News/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 10/6/04 |
Indiana Diocese Repents of Racist History
|
Church Central |
The Color of Money
|
gotriad.com |
Interpreting 'Dreams': Green Card Bill Has Hidden Dangers
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 10/3/04 |
Too Young To Die Part One: Life's Toll
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 10/2/04 |
An Attack on the Will to Learn
|
latimes.com |
With Fears of a Repeat, International Poll Watchers Will Be Dispacted Nationwide
|
BET.COM |
Indian Tribes Complaining About Racial Profiling
|
Houstan Chronicle |
| |
| |
| 9/27/04 |
Blocking the Latino Ballot
|
The American Prospect |
Remedy or Racist? Detroit Council Plan Aims to Increase Black Businesses
|
Detroit Free Press |
Can Three-Strikes Reformers Finally Win?
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner Faces Discrimination in Sweden
|
ncmonline.com |
Support for Arizona Anti-Immigration Measure Declines
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 9/22/04 |
Cross Burning Spurs Church to Tackle Racism Issues
|
HeraldNet.com |
Black Rockers Left off Beer Cans
|
NNPA |
Town Hall racism probe into 'ethnic cleansing' launched
|
black information link |
| |
| |
| 9/15/04 |
Underwater Racism?: ‘Shark Tale’ Accused of Using Stereotypes to Animate Villains.
|
EURWEB |
The Farm Workers’ Union Dives into Electoral Politics
|
Pacific News Service/Traduccion al espanol |
For Immigrants Stuck in Backlog, Promise of Citizenship and Voting Go Unfulfilled
|
NYIC, Commentary/ncmonline.com |
Racism and the Presidential Elections
|
Zmagazine |
| |
| |
| 9/12/04 |
At New National Museum of the American Indian, an Old Question Unresolved
|
Newhouse News Service |
Powell Says Rapes and Killings in Sudan Are Genocide
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 9/7/04 |
Inouye says fight not over yet on Akaka bill
|
Honoluluadvertiser.com |
| |
| |
| 9/6/04 |
Racism' s Role in U.S. Elections
|
Worker's World |
Families of Victims Shot By Cops Forge Activist Bonds
|
Pacific News Service |
| |
| |
| 9/4/04 |
Corporate Press Parrots Sham Study by Far Right Think Tank
|
Zmagazine |
| |
| |
| 9/2/04 |
The Immigrant Vote Packs Real Potential
|
NYIC/ncmonline.com |
Kerry Speaks Out in First Interview with Asian American Press
|
Asian Week/ncmonline |
Black Media Warns Sequel to 2000 Vote Fiasco Looms in Florida
|
ncmonline.com |
Corporate Press Parrots Sham Study by Far Right Think Tank
|
Zmag.org |
'Racist' Arsonists Target Family
|
BBC.COM |
White Police Claim Racism
|
Guardian Unlimited |
| |
| |
| 8/29/04 |
Despite Official Ban, Slavery Lives on in Mauritania: Bondage was Outlawed for 3rd Time in '81
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 8/28/04 |
Campus Racism Rises
|
Victoria Tower |
Calif. Gov. to Veto Immigrant License Bill
|
latimes.com |
Venezuela: Divided Country, Biased Media
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
UCLA Study Projects Uncertain Future for African American Progress Despite Past Gains
|
UCLA News |
Protest Continue at Sudan Embassy
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 8/26/04 |
More Blacks Going to Prison in 17 Key Election States
|
BlackAmericaWeb.com |
Asian Leaders Decry Plan to Check Immigration Status in Hospitals
|
Philippine News |
Push for Aborigines in constitution
|
The Australian |
Racist attacks spark call for special patrols
|
The Observer |
| |
| |
| 8/19/04 |
Immigrants Face Loss of Licenses in ID Crackdown
|
New York Times |
Flaws in U.S. Health System Imperils Immigrants
|
ncmonlne.com |
Japanese American Activist Remembered as Man of Principle
|
Nichi Bei Times/ncmonline.com |
BBC Runs Into Trouble With Documentary On Black Men
|
Independent.co.uk |
'Controversy is a Good Thing'
|
BBC.COM |
| |
| |
| 8/18/04 |
Hiram Fong, First Asian-American Senator, Dies at 97
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 8/16/04 |
Asian American Leader Fears Scandal Will Set Back Asian Voter Participation
|
NCM Interview |
Indian Americans Form Historic Group in Democratic Party
|
India Post/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 8/13/04 |
The Path to Legalizing Farm Workers
|
Voice of the Valley/Pacific News Service |
Italy Struggles With Illegal Immigration
|
latimes.com |
Report Says US Border Agents Mistreat Asylum Seekers
|
Khaleej Times online |
Mexican Congress Criticizes Use of Rubber Bullets Against Migrants
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 8/9/04 |
S.F. Chinese Parents Make the Case for Non-Citizen Voting
|
World Journal and Sing Tao Daily/ncmonline.com |
Blacks in a Quandary Over L.A. Mayor's Race
|
Wave Newspapers, News Report/ncmonline |
NAACP: Don't Purge Voters from the Rolls
|
Amsterdam News |
Former Braceros Still Waiting for Money
|
Vida en el Valle/ncmonline.com |
Judge Halts San Francisco Affirmative Action Contracting Program; City to Appeal Decision
|
civilrights.org |
New Report from LCCREF and ABA Says 1996 Immigration Reforms Unfair
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 8/1/04 |
Ex-Offenders Battle Economic Obstacles
|
civilrights.org |
Study Says Blacks Paid More for Honda Loans
|
blackamericaweb.com |
Latinos Seek More Say at the Podium
|
bostonglobe.com |
Historic Dialogue between Indigenous Groups
|
Voice of the Valley/Pacific News Service |
Darfur: US and UN could stop the slaughter
|
San Francisco Bay View |
The Dirty World Of Military Recruiting
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The Final Call/Pacific News Service |
Ethnic Media, Activists Decry Crisis in Sudan
|
Asbarez Armenian Daily, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, News Report, ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 7/25/04 |
Mr. Powell's Mistake
|
washingtonpost.com |
Demanding Greater Consideration From Presidential Candidates Only First Step for Asian Americans
|
ncmonline.com/Sing Tao Daily |
Congress Moves Closer to Saving Family of Hate Crime Victim
|
ncmonline/Pakistani Link |
Post-9/11 Deportations of Legal Immigrants Continue
|
ncmonline.com/Hispanic Vista |
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| |
| 7/24/04 |
Don't Call It A Comeback
|
Guerilla News Network |
Namibia Tribe Marks Genocide, Demands Reparations
|
Reauters/AlertNET |
Mumia: Support from NAACP, But a Movement in Shambles
|
Counterpunch |
Poll: Hispanics back Kerry over Bush
|
seattlepi.com |
Taiwan Aborigines Protest Remarks
|
seattlepi.com |
| |
| |
| 7/18/04 |
Arab Racism is the "Root Cause"
|
Jerusalem Post |
Stop Racial Profiling Of US Muslims: House Democratic Leader
|
Indolink.com |
Aborigines Split Over Disaster Relief Issues: Indigenous Groups Hold Protests Over Comments Made by Annette Lu on Taiwan's 'black pygmies'
|
TaiwanNews.com |
Hispanic voters sue for change to Hanford's voting system
|
SFGate.com |
Misguided Border Policy Continues With Triple Fence, Activists Say
|
La Prensa/ncmonline.com |
Why Is the NAACP Silent on Sudan?
|
www.beliefnet.com |
| |
| |
| 7/14/04 |
In Support of Media Diversity, Court Rules Against FCC
|
civilrights.org |
Freehold Area Hispanics Get a Primer on Workers' Rights
|
civilrights.org |
Rangel Arrested in Sudan Protest, Congressman in Demonstration at Sudanese Embassy
|
The Hill |
Mushmouth Reconsidered
|
villagevoice.com |
More Cosby Myths
|
alternet.org |
African-Americans Propose Far-Reaching Immigration Reform
|
Pacific News Service |
| |
| |
| 7/11/04 |
Kerry Promises Hispanics Quick Immigration Overhaul if He's Elected
|
SFGate.com |
Fla. Scraps Flawed Felon Voting List
|
Newsday.com |
Political Face of Florida Latinos Changing: Puerto Rican Influx Gives Democrats Hope of Ending Cuban-GOP Dominance
|
washingtonpost.com |
Bush Faults NAACP Leaders
|
Philly.com |
| |
| |
| 7/10/04 |
Senate Confirms Judicial Nominee With Troubling Civil Rights Record
|
civilrights.org |
Education Lawsuits Succeeding With 'No Child Left Behind' Data
|
civilrights.org |
Michigan Women's Groups Speak Out in Support of Affirmative Action
|
civilrights.org |
Need to Renew Your Non-Immigrant Visa? U.S. Says You Need to Go Back Home First
|
ncmonline.com |
'Mess in Florida'
|
ncmonline.com/BET.com |
| |
| |
| 7/6/04 |
Aboriginals: Foreigners in their own land?
|
BBC.COM |
Rumors of Immigration Raids Disrupt Agriculture Industry
|
Vida en el Valle/ncmonline.com |
Daschle: Protecting Voting Rights in Indian Country
|
indiancountry.com |
| |
| |
| 7/4/04 |
Detroit Joins 2 Cities on Slave Disclosures
|
washingontimes.com |
Kerry ‘Can’t Win Without the Black Vote’
|
Wave Newspaper Group/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 6/30/04 |
Lawsuit Seeks to Stop LA Project after remains of 300 Gabrielno Tongva Found
|
Indiancountry.com |
American Indian Voter Rights Debate Heats Up
|
Indiancountry.com |
| |
| |
| 6/28/04 |
Tough Times for Translators; S.F. Hospital May Cut Interpreters
|
ncmonline.com |
Native People Work to Heal Bitter Legacy of Government Boarding Schools
|
ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 6/25/04 |
Beating by LAPD Officer Airs on TV: The Case is Seen as a Test for Bratton as Parallels are Drawn to the Rodney King Incident of 1991.
|
latimes.com |
The Politics of Self-Criticism: Cosby Gets Cheers, Lerner Gets Threats
|
Berkeley Daily Planet |
Color Complex In The South Asian Diaspora
|
Indolink.com |
The New American Apartheid, Part I
|
zmagazine.org |
The End of Violenced?
|
MotherJones.com |
Affirmative Action One Year After 'Grutter'
|
civilrights.org |
Civil Rights Groups Voice Concern Over Proposed Change to EEO-1 Form
|
civilrights.org |
Rabbis Clash With Schwarzenegger Over His Driver's License Proposal
|
ncmonline.com |
Filipino Americans Play Key Roles in Kerry and Bush Campaigns
|
Philippine News |
'Terminal' Blues: Spielberg Film Misses True Immigrant Story
|
Pacific News Service,Commentary |
Stateless and Deported
|
zmagazine.org |
Blame Cosby?
|
zmagazine.com |
| |
| |
| 6/20/04 |
As Genocide Unfolds
|
washingtonpost.com |
Juneteenth Not a Celebration for All
|
Newsday.com |
| |
| |
| 6/18/04 |
Nielsen: We Undercounted People Of Color, Not Blacks, Hispanics, But Asians
|
Media Post Daily News |
Laotian Immigrants Demand Greater Housing Rights
|
ncmonline.com |
L.A. Called 'Hunger Capital' of the U.S.
|
ncmonline.com/Eastern Group Publications |
Immigration Raids in California Test Spanish-Language Media
|
ncmonline.com |
Indian Vote Could Decide Senate Majority, Presidential Election
|
Indiancountry.com |
| |
| |
| 6/13/04 |
Diversity Plan Shaped in Texas Is Under Attack
|
www.nyt.com |
| |
| |
| 6/12/04 |
Some Civil Rights Leaders Have it Wrong
|
dailynews.com |
U.S. Hispanic Dropout Rate Highlighted
|
washingtontimes.com |
Reagan's Legacy Among Minority Groups Conflicted, Complex; Hispanics Praise 1986 Amnesty
|
SFGate.com |
Tutu Urges US to Address Lingering Racial Issues
|
BlackAmericaweb.com |
Ethnicity or Issues? Indian Americans Debate How to Win Political Office
|
India West/ncmonline.com |
California Mascot Bill Passes Senate Education Committee
|
indiancountry.com |
Connerly's Concession in Michigan Contradicts Actions on the Ground
|
civilrights.org |
Minority Admits Down in UC System; Groups Say Regent Using Asians as 'Pawns'
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 6/9/04 |
Activists Plan to Protest UN's 'Inaction' on Sudan Violence
|
CNSNEWS.COM |
Asian Pacific Islander American Groups Join Forces With Other Immigrant Champions to Help Empower More Than Two Million Immigrant Voters
|
civilrights.org |
Bank One Tells City its Units May have had Ties to Slavery
|
suntimes.com |
Schools Will Not Report Illegals
|
washingtontimes.com |
Hutchison: The Real Reagan Revolution
|
AlterNet.org |
Michigan Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Affirmative Action Petition Case
|
Detroit Free Press |
| |
| |
| 6/6/04 |
Fla. AG: Motel Discriminated Vs. Blacks
|
BlackAmericaweb.com |
Rally Protest Proposed Clifornia Health Care Cuts
|
Indiancountry.com |
Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism
|
Time Online Edition |
Did White Teacher Spit in Black Students Face
|
BlackPressUSA.com |
A Tangled Web
|
The Boston Phoenix.com |
| |
| |
| 6/3/04 |
CU Tells Students They Can't Start NAACP Chapter, Officials Cite Stand on Abortion, Overlap With Campus Groups
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 6/2/04 |
Post-Colonial Nostalgia Behind Britain's Brand of Racism
|
Tallahassee.com |
| |
| |
| 6/1/04 |
High School Athlete Faces Possible Felony Charges, Student Refused To Plead Out To Misdemeanor
|
NBC11.COM |
| |
| |
| 5/31/04 |
Dangerous Boarder: Militias Round up Illegal Immigrants in Desert Migrant Advocates Say Deceptive Patrols Increase Peril, Seldom Face Legal Scrutiny
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 5/29/04 |
Proposal to Adopt a Palestinian City as a 'Sister' Creates a Family Feud for Madison
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 5/28/04 |
Black Soldiers Battled Fascism and Racism
|
www.washingtonpost.com |
Immigrant Children More Likely to Live Below the Poverty Line
|
Sing Tao Daily/ncmonline.com |
Anti-Affirmative Action Vote Drive Halted
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 5/25/04 |
$50 Million Gift for Education a Good Start, Experts Says
|
BlackAmericaweb.com |
Brazil Grapples With Moves to Racial Unity
|
washingtontimes.com |
$50 Million Gift Aims to Further Legacy of Brown Case
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 5/24/04 |
Armenian Americans Battle Bush Over Genocide Recognition
|
Pacific News Service, News Report/ncmonline |
Prison Torture Begins at Home
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
In a Reverse Migration, Blacks Head to New South
|
latimes.com |
| |
| |
| 5/21/04 |
New Jersey to Require all police Officers to Learn What is _ and isn't _ Racial Profiling
|
SFGate.com |
Connecticut-Based Beer Distributor to Pull Ads Some Hispanics Deemed Offensive
|
Newsday.com |
No Improvement in Black, Hispanic Graduation Rates
|
BlackAmericaweb.com |
| |
| |
| 5/19/04 |
Report: Blacks, Latinos Steered from Long Island Housing
|
blackamericaweb.com |
In School, Latinos Find Fewer Resources, Ethnic Isolation
|
boston.comNews |
California Case Sets Stage For Brown Vs. Board
|
AntiRacismNet.org |
| |
| |
| 5/17/04 |
Powell Raps Arab Silence
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 5/16/04 |
Mendez v Westminster
|
civilrights.org |
Fifty Years after Brown, N.J. Taking Different Approach to Schools
|
Newsday.com |
Struggle Turns from Integration to Education
|
DenverPost.com |
Struggle turns from integration to education
|
DenverPost.com |
Powell Denounces Israel's Destruction of Palestinian Homes
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 5/13/04 |
New Focus on Tensions Between Asian and African American Students in N.Y. Schools
|
Korea Daily, News Report/ncmonline |
Alfred and Corntassel: A Decade of Rhetoric for Indigenous Peoples
|
Indian Country Today |
Idle on Darfur
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 5/9/04 |
South Wire: Georgia Beatings Reveal Vulnerability of Hispanic Day Laborers
|
jacksonville.com |
Atlanta's Segregated Schools, in 2004
|
foxnews.com |
Free Press slavery history
|
Detroit Free Press |
Connerly Vows that Michigan Voters Will Get to Vote on Racial Preferences
|
HeraldTribune.com |
| |
| |
| 5/8/04 |
Hired Guns in Iraq May Have War Crimes Pasts
|
Pacific News Service |
| |
| |
| 5/4/04 |
Racial Profiling is Confirmed: Police Face New Rules on Stopping Motorists
|
boston.com News |
Civil Rights Commission Has Hearing to Assess Election Reform
|
civilrights.org |
Washington University Alters Program for Blacks
|
BlackPressUSA.com |
South African Blacks to get Land Stolen during Apartheid
|
BlackPressUSA.com |
| |
| |
| 5/2/04 |
Recognition of Armenian Genocide Increasing Despite White House Opposition
|
Asbarez Armenia Daily |
| |
| |
| 4/30/04 |
Facing Up to Our Ties to Slavery
|
boston.comNews |
A Closer Look: Decline in Minority Admissions Linked to Decreasing UC Campus Activism
|
Daily Bruin |
Some Blacks and Hispanics Criticize Kerry on Outreach
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 4/26/04 |
Hub of hypersegregation
|
boston.comNews |
Racism Flaring, Northwest Fights Back, The Number of Skinheads in the US has Doubled in the Past Year.
|
AntiRacismNet.org |
| |
| |
| 4/20/04 |
S.F. Chinese Community Astir Over School Desegregation Debate
|
Sing Tao Daily and World Journal, News Report, ncmonline.com |
Univ. of Alabama Votes to Apologize for Slavery
|
blackamerica.web.com |
Ashcroft Pressed To Re-Open Till Investigation: Murder of 14-Year-Old In 1955 Helped Trigger Civil Rights Movement
|
SacObserver.com |
| |
| |
| 4/19/04 |
Fair Housing Advocates Call for Stricter Law Enforcement
|
civilrights.org |
Bad New Days for Voting Rights
|
New York Times |
Cuba's Desire For Equality Ignores Obvious
|
washingtonpost.com |
Study Suspects Thousands of False Convictions
|
civilrights.org |
The Apprentice
|
blackenterprise.com |
Crazy, Racist Slant Colors Crime Stats
|
DenverPost.com |
| |
| |
| 4/16/04 |
Afro-Colombians: 'Invisible' People Strive to Survive War, Racism
|
StraightWords E-Zine, News Reprt |
| |
| |
| 4/12/04 |
Mbeki Attack On Opposition Leader Stirs Up Racism Storm
|
Independent.co.uk |
Forget This Phoney Debate, We Need to Comfront Racism
|
Gaurdian Unlimited |
Second Shooting of Chinese American in S.F. Draws Ire from Community
|
Word Journal, News Report |
| |
| |
| 4/11/04 |
What Clinton Knew About Rwanda Genocide
|
The East African |
Ottawa Prepares to Battle Racism, Federal Program Combats Growing Anti-Semitism, Anti-Arab Crimes
|
Calgary Herald |
| |
| |
| 4/7/04 |
Was World's Failure to Act Racism? asks Kagame
|
news.telegraph.co.uk |
Reparations Should Be an Election Issue, Say Activists
|
San Francisco Bay View/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 4/5/04 |
Racial Profiling Ban Makes Way Through Congress
|
sacobserver.com |
Australia Unveils Big Plan for Aboriginal Education
|
www.jang.com |
Kerry Leads in oll of Latin Voters
|
Zogby International |
Coalition Expands AIDS Drug Plan, Over 100 Nations May Get Discounts
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 4/4/04 |
Kids Have African-Israeli Identity, but Ethiopian Parents Still Foreigners
|
Global News Service of the Jewish People |
Hispanics Win Noise Bias Suit in Arkansas
|
latimes.com |
Survey: Lack of Financial Aid Info Keeping Hispanics from College
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 4/3/04 |
Crisis in Darfur
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 3/30/04 |
A Tribe Caught in Middle
|
latimes.com |
Disenfranchised Florida Felons Struggle to Regain Their Rights
|
New York Times |
| |
| |
| 3/29/04 |
UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds
|
LifeSite.net |
| |
| |
| 3/24/04 |
Push for Diversity Enriches UGA
|
ww.ajc.com |
SA Universities: The Racial Balance
|
BBCNEWS |
Chinese in San Francisco Brace for Storm Over School Assignments
|
World Journal/Sing Tao Daily/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 3/23/04 |
Tribes, 2007 Planners Talking, Many Still Feel Federal Recognition is Needed Before They Participate
|
TimesDispatch.com |
BIA Reorganization Shows Cultural Gap
|
Indiancountry.com |
Black Ivy League Students Under Attack
|
FinalCall.com |
Book Callls Hispanic Immigration A Threat
|
MiamiHearlad.com |
In Sudan, Peace Deal Can't End Cultural Conflict
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
Asian 'American Idol': Stereotype or Star?
|
Asia Commentary/ncmonline.com |
Colorado Senate to Vote Soon on Whether to End Affirmative Action
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 3/16/04 |
Clinging to 'Western' Heritage, US Lawmaker Fights Multiculturalism in Schools
|
yahoonews.com |
Carving Up Aboriginal Art Market
|
theage.com |
Calif. Classes Canceled as Colleges Hit by Rash of Hate Incidents
|
AntiRacismNet.org |
Suppressing the Bad News on NCAA Graduation Rates
|
civilrights.org |
Activists Want KKK Banned from University of Louisville Campus
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 3/10/04 |
Sub-Saharan Migrants in Libya Face Backlash, Gaddafi Ratchets Back Pan-African Policies
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 3/9/04 |
US-Haiti
|
Znetmagazine.org |
Losing Our Future:How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis
|
The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University |
| |
| |
| 3/7/04 |
Everyone Should Back Herero Reparations
|
The Namibian |
Hispanic Immigrants Threaten US culture, Harvard Professor Says
|
US-National-AFP |
A Growing Hispanic Vote Still Favors GOP
|
Boston Globe |
Bush Medicare Ads Blasted for Flaws and Limited Reach
|
Pacific News Service |
Minorities' Graduation Rates Low, Report Says
|
civilrights.org |
Brown University Committee Examines Historical Ties to Slavery
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 3/2/04 |
GOP Plans Votes to Put Democrats on the Spot
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 3/1/04 |
Mexican consul, Mormon Church Denounce Anti-Immigration Group
|
SFGate.com |
Democrats Need Dean's Message to Win
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 2/28/04 |
Young People Speak Out on California's Troubled Juvenile Justice System
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
Arab World to U.S.: Don't 'Fix' Us, Work With Us
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
Oakland Students Allege Abuse by Police
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 2/23/04 |
U.S., Mexico Agree to Deport Migrants Closer to Home
|
SFGate.com |
Schwarzenegger Backs Amendment to Allow Immigrant Presidents
|
NYTimes.com |
Chandler Police Reach Out to Hispanic Residents
|
civilrights.org |
Laughter Lobbies for Better Roads on Reservations
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 2/16/04 |
Death of Teen in Australia's Largest City Sparks Riots in Aborigine Neighborhood
|
SFgate.com |
Student Group Offers Whites-Only Scholarship
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 2/12/04 |
Fleeing Slavery in Africa
|
washingtontimes.com |
OutKast Grammy Performance Offends American Indians
|
Indian County Today/ncmonline.com |
Black SA Youth 'Denied Access to UK'
|
www.iol.co.za |
Nassau Rental Bias Reported:Group Says Blacks, Latinos Mistreated
|
Newsday.com |
Sweeping Civil Rights Legislation Reaches Capitol Hill
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 2/6/04 |
Koreans Fear Race-based Attacks in L.A. County Jails
|
Korea Times/Korea Daily/ncmonline.com |
Why Sharpton Doesn't Cut It
|
Pacific News Service/ncmonline.com |
Call to End Educational 'Racism'
|
BBC News World Edition |
| |
| |
| 1/31/04 |
Confederate History Month Rises Again
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 1/29/04 |
At Baghdad Forum, Topic Is Democracy, but Not Elections
|
washingtonpost.com |
KKK Plans Rally on Same Day Presidential Candidates in Nashville
|
The Florida Times-Union |
National poll: Hispanics Divided on Bush Immigration Proposal
|
SFGate.com |
US Citizenship of Nazi Collaborator to be Revoked
|
Jerusalem Post |
Armenian Americans Question Clark's About Face on Genocide
|
Asbarez Armenian Daily, Commentary/NCMonline.com |
Indian Nations President Says 'Quiet Crisis' Grows Louder
|
civilrights.org |
Washington State May Modify Anti-Affirmative Action Law
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 1/24/04 |
Critics Say Schwarzenegger Budget Unfair to Small Cities, Latino Communities
|
Vida en el Valle, News Report/ncmonline.com |
Tribes Prepare for Schwarzenegger Initiatives
|
Indianz.Com/ncmonline.com |
| |
| |
| 1/17/04 |
Bush Bypasses Senate On Judge: Pickering Named To Appeals Court During Recess
|
washingtonpost.com |
Supreme Court Hands Texas GOP a Redistricting Victory
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 1/13/04 |
Thugs Drive Out Blacks in Belfast 'Ethnic Cleansing'
|
telegraph.uk.co |
Brazil: Settlers Kidnap Missionaries and Attack Indigenous People
|
Amnesty International UK |
| |
| |
| 1/12/04 |
Ethnic Media Wary of Bush Immigration Proposal
|
Pacific News Service |
Some Hispanics who Joined Statewide Boycott Lost their Jobs
|
SFGate.com |
Democratic Front-Runner Dean Criticized on Racial Issues
|
The Miami Herald |
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Secret Sept. 11 Detentions
|
SFGate.com |
U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records:Travel Database to Rate Security Risk Factors
|
washingtonpost.com |
| |
| |
| 1/9/04 |
Affirmative Action Foes Go Hunting for Support
|
www.civilrights.org |
50 Years Pass, Yet School Inequality Persists
|
www.civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 1/8/04 |
Jobs, Education, Health Top Concerns Of Black Voters
|
SacObserver.com |
Ethiopians Protest Immigration Delays
|
FORWARD |
| |
| |
| 1/7/04 |
Sacramento Muslims Reach Out to Wider Community
|
Pakistani Link/NCM |
| |
| |
| 1/1/04 |
Governor: Don't Gut College Prep For Working Class Californians
|
La Prensa-San Diego, Commentary/NCM |
| |
| |
| 12/29/03 |
Police Shooting in San Jose Stirs Vietnamese Into Action
|
SFGate.com |
Asian Women Golfers Swing Through Attacks
|
KoreAm Journal/NCM |
| |
| |
| 12/24/03 |
Reports Accuse Indonesia, a U.S. Ally, of Abuses
|
Pacific News Service, Commentary |
| |
| |
| 12/22/03 |
Ex-Felons Seeking Voting Rights Get Trial
|
The Miami-Herald.com |
A&M Seeks Diversity:University Officials Plan to use the Corps of Cadets to Lure Minority Students
|
Austin-American Statesman |
| |
| |
| 12/21/03 |
School Debate Slave-Era Names
|
washingtontimes.com |
| |
| |
| 12/18/03 |
OCA Commemorates 60th Anniversary Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Act
|
civilrights.org |
Report Calls on Bush Administration to Accept, Enforce Effects of ‘Grutter’ Decision
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 12/15/03 |
Schwarzenegger's Cuts Unhealthy for Korean Families
|
Korea Times/NCM |
Michiganians Likely to Ban Affirmative Action
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 12/9/03 |
Retailer's Image Problem: Racism
|
SFGate.com |
| |
| |
| 12/8/03 |
Supporters, Foes of Affirmative Action Draw Battle Lines
|
mlive.com |
Attack on Foreign Students in Moscow Alarms Chinese
|
Sing Toa Daily |
Latino Boycott Part of Strategy in New Push for Drivers' Licenses
|
Voice of the Valley/NCM |
| |
| |
| 12/1/03 |
Immigrant re-registration Abandoned
|
washingtontimes.com |
Affirmative Action Backers Push For Connerly's Ouster
|
washingtontimes.com |
House Will Vote On Alien Reporting
|
washingtontimes.com |
Young Black Males: Job Untouchables?
|
FinalCall.com |
EPA Protects Paper Companies From Miane Tribe Supervison
|
IndianCountry.com |
| |
| |
| 11/24/03 |
Law Banishes Immigrants for Petty Offenses/NCM
|
Asian Week |
Bake Sale at A&M Puts Heat on Affirmative Action Policy
|
HoustonChronicle.com |
Dueling students rally over Connerly:Some are demanding regent's removal; other want him to stay put
|
Alameda Times-Star |
| |
| |
| 11/18/03 |
For More and More Blacks, the South Beckons
|
Sun Reporter/NCM |
Ramadan Donations Hampered by U.S. Regulations
|
Pakistan Link |
Immigration Reformers Launch Bid to Sway 2004 Elections
|
El Norte Digest |
Native Americans Gather for Election Talks
|
CNN.COM |
City's Racial Gap Detailed in Black and White
|
suntimes.com |
At Colleges, an Affirmative Reaction
|
washingtonpost.com |
The Black Seminole Indians Keep Fighting for Equality in the American West
|
civilrights.org |
| |
| |
| 11/12/03 |
Jeff Jacoby: Won't Democrats Rubuke Sharpton?
|
Boston Globe |
OAS Works on Set of Rights for Indigenous People
|
VOANEWS.COM |
| |
| |
| 11/10/03 |
Lack of Spanish-Language Information Endangered Lives During San Diego Fires
|
Enlace, La Prensa-San Diego |
Going Beyond Black and White, Hispanics Choose 'Other'
|
NYTimes.com |
| |
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| 11/5/03 |
In Scorched Hills, Tribes Feel Bereft and Forgotten
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New York Times/civilrights.org |
FBI Report Shows Decrease in Hate Crimes
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civilrights.org |
PATRIOT Act Fears Are Stifling Free Speech, ACLU Says in Challenge to Law
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ACLU |
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| 11/4/03 |
Justice Dept. Denies Obstructing Diversity Criticism
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AboutRace.com |
GOP Fails To Break Pickering Filibuster
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Sacobsever.com |
Racist Attacks On Migrant Workers Rise
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IrishExaminer.com |
New US Visa Rules Will Worsen Ties With Arabs
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Middle East Online |
Notice of Appeal Filed In Redskins Trademark Case
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indiancountry.com |
Initiative Out to Show Black Male’s Plight
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rrstar.com |
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| 10/29/03 |
Namibia’s Herero Demand Reparations for Colonial-Era Genocide
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DW-WORLD.DE |
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| 10/27/03 |
Education Funding to Favour Black Students
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allAfrica.com |
Youth 'Key' To Tackling Racism
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BBC.COM |
Hip-Hop Product Portrayals Divide Black Community
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Christian Science Monitor |
Koreans and Latinos Rally Behind Drivers License Law
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NCM, News Digest |
African American and Immigrant Groups Fight 'Alarming' Rise in Racial Profiling
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ColorLines RaceWire |
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| 10/21/03 |
Coalition Vows to Fight Nomination
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civilrights.org |
Bolivian Unrest Centers On Poverty, Racism
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miamiherald.com |
Wilkins: Red, Black, and Bruised
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Indaincountry.com |
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| 10/20/03 |
Reading Between the Lines: Covering the Cops
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Africana.com |
Hispanic Activists Rip New Driver's License Laws
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SFgate.com |
Mexican-American Rights Group Files Lawsuit Over GOP's Texas Redistricting
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SFGate.com |
The Roots of 'Hispanic' 1975 Committee of Bureaucrats Produced Designation
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washingtonpost.com |
The (Finally) Emerging Republican Majority
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The Weekly Standard |
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| 10/14/03 |
SF State Administration Encourages Anti-Black Hostility
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sfbayview.com |
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| 10/13/03 |
Racism Overshadows Swiss Elections
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Deutsche Welle |
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| 10/12/03 |
'Ghettopoly' Incites Protests:Stereotypes Meant as Parody, Creator Says
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washingtonpost.com |
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| 10/6/03 |
Silicon Valley Immigrants Say: 'Do Not Take Advantage of a Foreigner'
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arc.org |
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| 9/29/03 |
Peltier Pleads for New Hearing
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indiancountry.com |
Filipinos 'Outraged' Over Mass Deportations
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Phillipine News |
Asians Split on Initiative Pushed by Affirmative Action Critics
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Asian Week |
Army Chaplain's Arrest Puts Chinese Americans on Edge
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Pacific News Service |
Cartoon Offends Sikh Community, Artist Apologizes
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India West |
South Asians Gather for Forum on Patriot Act, Backlash
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India West |
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| 9/28/03 |
Hunt for "New" Oil
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The Washington Times |
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| 9/24/03 |
News from the North: A Digest of First Nations News from Canada
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indiancountry.com |
Lawmaker to Start Work on National American Latino Museum
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SFGate.com |
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| 9/22/03 |
Perdue's Journey in Black and White. Can a Child of the Segregated South Lead a Discussion on Race in 21st Century Georgia?
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ajc.com |
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| 9/19/03 |
Poll: U.S. Muslims Increase Political Activity Since 9/11
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Council on American Islamic Relations |
Presidential Candidate Receives Tribal Advice
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indiancountry.com/about.com |
Bus Mistake Causes Boston to Revisit Racial Rifts
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About.com |
Russian Rights Groups to Monitor Racism
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miamiherald.com |
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| 9/15/03 |
Some Black Voters Feel Overlooked by California Recall Candidates
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SFGate.com |
Sharpton Protests Internet Voting
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SFGate.com |
Young Activist Leaders Struggle To Be Heard
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SacObserver.com |
GOP Dumps Hispanic Caucus
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washingtontimes.com |
Pandor or Candor
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The Barre Montpelier Times |
In Search of a Master Race
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USA Today |
Peruvian Truth Reveals Decades of Terror
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indiancountry.com |
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| 9/9/03 |
Renewing A Historic Partnership
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Foward |
Citizens Launch Drones to Patrol Mexican Boarder: Immigrant Groups Fear Vigilance Will Turn to Violence
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ajc.com |
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| 9/8/03 |
Rights March Unifies Groups
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Starbulletin.com |
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| 9/6/03 |
Genetic Breakthroughs Help Solve Some Origin Questions for African Americans
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SFGate.com |
NAACP Opposes Proposed Thurmond Memorial
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SacObserver.com |
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| 9/1/03 |
BLACKS, MUSILIMS HOLD SEPERATE MEETINGS
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Kansascity.com |
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| 8/29/03 |
U-MICHIGAN REVEALS NEW POLICY, PROVOST SAYS DIVERSITY WILL REMAIN a PRIORITY in ADMISSIONS
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The Washington Post |
NAACP Claims Bias in Schools
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The Miami Herald |
Racism Cited As 69,000 Die in Peru Rebel War
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Toronto Star |
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| 8/26/03 |
Black's Lingering Fears Hampering UW Study
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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| 8/25/03 |
Blacks Still Suffer Financial Inequality
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The Palm Beach Post |
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| 8/24/03 |
Old Dreams and New Issues 40 Years After Rights March
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New York Times |
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| 8/21/03 |
Northern Ireland: Battle Against Racism
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AntiRacismNet.org |
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| 8/19/03 |
Moment of Decision
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KansasCity.com |
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| 8/12/03 |
Homosexuality, Racism, and the Eclipse of the Gospel
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Black Electorate |
Bush's Hawkish Nominee To Peace Think Tank On Hold In Senate
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The Council on American Islamic Relations |
State GOP Legislators Urge Action on Cuba
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The Miami Herald |
Fairfax Official Laments Magnet's Scant Diversity
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The Washington Post |
Fairfax Official Laments Magnet's Scant Diversity
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The Washington Post |
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| 8/7/03 |
ACTION ALERT: Protecting Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
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NAACP |
Research and Race
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Associated Press |
Muslims Condemn Attack on Sikh Family in New York
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CAIR |
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| 7/3/03 |
Facts on Proposition 54
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Coalition for an Informed California |
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| 1/8/03 |
Stakes Is High
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The Nation |
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