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Minorities Are The Face Of Poverty
Presidential Inauguration speeches don’t typically contain policy statements, but President Obama broke with tradition on January 21 when he touched on a number of issues including, poverty.
“Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable,” said the President. “The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative. They strengthen us.”
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Issue Of The Week XLV: Quit Stereotyping It May Improve Your Thinking
The mind is a funny thing when it comes to how your attitude toward stereotypes affects your overall thinking. For example, have you ever noticed how people with strong mindsets toward racial stereotypes tend to be less creative or able to think in the abstract? One new study released January 7 found a connection between racial intolerance and creativity while a second study has concluded that adopting abstract thinking reduces prejudice toward “non-normative” groups.
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Conversation Of The Week XLV: Teaching While White: Reflections On 40 Years Teaching Ethnic Studies
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The Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Washington: The first group of recruits sits in the classroom in quadrants. The black kids are in one corner, the Hispanics in another, the Native Americans in a third, and the poor whites in a fourth.
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President Obama, Republicans, And Democrats Push For Immigration Reform
LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Barack Obama is hailing bipartisan Senate efforts to overhaul the nation's patchwork immigration laws, welcoming "a genuine desire" to tackle an issue that has been stalled for years.
Obama was appearing at a campaign-style rally where he will seek to animate public support for his immigration principles. The president's proposals largely mirror plans released a day earlier by eight senators, four Democrats and four Republicans.
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Keeping Blacks And Hispanics Out Of Office
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 claimed his hometown's method of electing City Council members by a citywide vote rather than through individual districts is keeping black and Hispanic candidates out of office.
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Arizona Legislature More White, More Male, More Republican
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's new Legislature is more White, more male, and more Republican than the people who live here, an analysis of the makeup of the 51st Legislature shows.
And while they are from many walks of life, from real-estate agents to a pharmacy technician, and retirees to recently returned combat vets, the legislators elected to represent the people do not, as a group, reflect the demographics of the state population, according to data analyzed by The Arizona Republic.
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NFL Rooney Rule: Eight Men Out No African-Americans In
With the hiring of Bruce Arians as the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, all eight head coaching vacancies that came available in the National Football League are all filled – all with white men. Minority candidates, who by league rule are supposed to be considered for head coaching vacancies, were shut out. In a league where over 65 percent of the players are African-American, this is inexcusable.
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Conversation Of The Week XXXXV: Does Online Discrimination Affect A Person’s Health?
The Internet, social media, and even smart phones open up new avenues for communication. But new research indicates that over the long-term, social texts and Facebook posts of racial bias and rejection is discrimination that affects our thinking, emotional state and patterns of behavior, as well as our physical and mental health.
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Issue Of The Week XXXXV: Are You Guilty Of Unintentional Racial Slurs?
We’ve heard and seen the gaffes occur right before our eyes…every few months it seems. Recently, there was the Brent Musburger brouhaha: he used the word “beautiful” in reference to Katherine Webb, girlfriend of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron. And before that, there was the “Chink” comment, made by an ESPN reporter, about New York Knicks’ guard Jeremy Lin.
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Police Must Reveal Racial Profiling Files
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's highest court ruled Thursday that the state police must release files related to how authorities investigate racial profiling complaints.
The decision is the result of a court battle between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Maryland State Police known as the "Driving While Black" case, which dates to the 1990s.
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