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March 20th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The 64 schools in the women's NCAA basketball tournament combined to graduate 90 percent of their players.
The findings are part of the annual report released Tuesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
The study also shows the gap between graduation rates of white and African-American players shrunk to 6 percentage points....
March 19th, 2013
Written by David Brandt - ... in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
Overall graduation rates improved among players at schools in this year's men's NCAA basketball tournament, and African-American players in particular did better, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) shows African-American players' graduation success rates increased from 59 percent in...
March 19th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in Stereotypes & Labels, Latest News with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the five million New Yorkers stopped, questioned, and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who said they were illegally stopped said Monday. New York Police Department lawyers countered that officers must go where the crime is - and the crime is overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
A civil...
March 17th, 2013
Written by Hope Yen in Latest News, Cover Stories with 1 Comment
Latino population growth impacts racial divides all across America in many ways. Such fast growth of Latinos is blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.
With a historic and steady decline in the growth of the white population, the U.S. is rapidly becoming a nation...
March 16th, 2013
Written by Jenna Fryer - A... in Stereotypes & Labels, Latest News with 0 Comments
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) - NASCAR driver Jeremy Clements was back at the track Friday after a two-week suspension for using a racial slur, hopeful his lapse in judgment hasn't caused irreparable harm to his career.
"I think everybody deserves a second chance," he said. "I think you've got to look at the person's history. I have never been in trouble with NASCAR. I always try to do the right thing and...
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