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February 4th, 2013
Written by Elliot Spagat - Associated Press in Race & Politics, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.
The prediction that Hispanics will equal the number of whites in...
January 29th, 2013
Written by John Rogers - Associated Press in Race & Politics, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The mayor of Lancaster has taken on pit bulls and motorcycle gangs in the past. On Monday, the flamboyant politician said he is going after the high-desert city next door.
Mayor R. Rex Parris announced he has signed on as co-counsel for a voting rights lawsuit brought against Palmdale, where he grew up and has a high school named after him.
The prominent litigation attorney...
January 25th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Education, the Great Equalizer, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
In a statement issued at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2005, the topic of diversity was addressed. “Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary & Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium,” speaks to the changing face of the student population in Catholic schools.
There are more than two million children enrolled in Catholic schools in America. Those children come...
January 17th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Race & Politics, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
President Obama bypassed congressional approval and signed 23 executive actions on January 16 towards curbing gun violence. Among them was a memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to research gun violence. That move was despite threats from NRA-backed members of Congress to de-fund any such future studies. In fact, two days prior to the President’s announcement (and the one...
January 17th, 2013
Written by Ivan Moreno - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
DENVER (AP) - Dozens of jubilant students cheered Democratic lawmakers at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday for a bill lowering tuition costs for illegal immigrants graduating from state high schools - an often-proposed measure likely to pass this year.
"The air is full of optimism, and so it's an honor to be up here," Pueblo Democratic Sen. Angela Giron, one of the bill's sponsors, said during a...
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