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January 7th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in race relations news, Latest News, Focus on Health with 0 Comments
Currently, 54 million Hispanics live in the U.S. By 2050, that number is expected to rise to 132.8 million. For this reason, Hispanic health concerns are getting more attention from the American medical establishment than in the past. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Hispanic Americans tend to live longer than either black or white Americans despite the fact that this population...
January 7th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in race relations news, Socialization, Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
The holidays are over and the annual sensitivity about the various religious and ethnic holidays and other trappings of the season are laid to rest for 12 more months. This year, however, Kwanzaa took on a special challenge, not one usually heard amid the religious/ethnic chatter. Josh Feldman, writing in the online publication, Media-ite, describes the controversy where CNN’S Ashleigh Banfield...
January 7th, 2013
Written by Dixie Eddington... in race relations news, Feature Stories, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Education, Latest News with 0 Comments
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - In the early 1900s, a Jewish man in Chicago, Ill., with no apparent connection to the South, began building schools for blacks in the rural South. Julius Rosenwald would become one of the most significant figures in Southern black education - and would eventually leave his mark in a small community right here in southwest Arkansas.
That school was the forerunner of the Free...
January 4th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in race relations news, All About Family, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Latest News with 0 Comments
African-American children are nine times more likely and Hispanic children three times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison. Thanks go to the State of Idaho for assembling a national fact sheet, which gives us a snapshot of the plight of these children who are often the forgotten victims of crime. The average age of children with an incarcerated parent is eight years old;...
January 4th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Cultural Uniqueness, race relations news, Latest News with 0 Comments
You’ve probably watched John Quinones setting up scenes that push the boundaries of acceptable behavior and then asking, “What would you do?” Read the following scenario and decide if there is anything you would have done differently. (I confess: I was there and I wouldn’t have.)
The scene is a large employee-appreciation/development conference, held in Hawaii, for hundreds of federal employees....
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