The Center for American Progress updated its numbers from an October 2012 report, showing how women of color increased their voting rate and influenced election outcomes despite a higher risk of disenfranchisement from attacks on voting rights.
The new May 22 report, which updated the numbers from the “A Dual Disenfranchisement: How Voter Suppression Denies Reproductive Justice to Women of Color,” indicates that women of color “stand at the intersection of the rising electorate and the gender gap,” a gap found to be sharpest among women of color. According to the report, women of color...
Do Europeans need race relations and racial sensitivity training? If not all Europeans, what about sports fans? Soccer or football as it is called there, has been plagued all over Europe by racist incidents among fans, at pubs and in the streets, often resulting in cancelled games, expulsions, fines and in some instances property damage and violence.
America is not without its problems when it comes to racism and race relations. But it is not often displayed, at least blatantly, in sports.
Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial...
At a time when instances of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise, the U.S. State Department has appointed a former Jewish businessman as special envoy to monitor and combat the epidemic around the globe.
Ira Forman, former CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, has been installed as the State Department seeks to improve worldwide levels of racial tolerance. Forman replaces Michael Kozak, who has served in the role on an interim basis over the last year.
Forman’s first-order-of-business would seem addressing a 2012 outbreak of anti-Semitic acts perpetrated by government...
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) - Sergio Garcia's feud with Tiger Woods has deepened, with the Spaniard denying accusations of racism after "fried chicken" comments during an awards dinner. Garcia appeared on stage at the European Tour's awards dinner in England on Tuesday and was asked in jest if he would invite Woods to dinner during the U.S. Open. News reports said Garcia replied: "We will have him round every night. We will serve fried chicken."
Fried chicken is a food typically associated with black Americans.
Garcia released a statement through the European Tour: "I apologise for any...
The goal is to reach 335,317 signatures by May 30, but the group attempting to recall “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” announced May 16 it is out of money to pay the signature gatherers. As such, the group will rely on volunteers to collect the remainder of the registered-voter signatures required to force an election.
The group, known as Respect Arizona, is trying to oust 80-year-old Maricopa County
Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, who recently won his sixth consecutive term in November in one of the closest races he’s ever faced – just 80,000 votes over former Phoenix police Sgt. Paul Penzone...
EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured, and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin.
Once one of about two dozen on slave row at Point of Pines Plantation, the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture plans to ship the cabin north, and place it on display at the new museum when it opens on Washington's National Mall in two years.
"The reason we collect a cabin like this is (that) it allows you to...
In the wake of the May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education decision, school districts made strides to end racial segregation in public schools. But after meeting the clear goals of court-ordered desegregation, many schools slipped back into race and class segregation trends even with a growing diversity in student enrollment, according to several new reports from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, which is exploring increasing school segregation trends in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States.
The Civil Rights Project study released May 9, Losing Ground: School Segregation in Massachusetts,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Citing problems exposed by the Boston Marathon bombings, senators weighing amendments to a sweeping immigration bill agreed Tuesday to boost security provisions around student visas.
The Senate Judiciary Committee agreed by voice vote to an amendment by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa meant to ensure that border patrol agents at U.S. ports of entry have access to information on the status of student visas.
The committee action follows recent revelations that a student from Kazakhstan accused of hiding evidence for one of the Boston bombing suspects returned to the U.S...
