Institutional Racism
School Segregation Again?
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.
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Major League Baseball Improves Racial Diversity
NEW YORK (AP) - While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.
Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 percent from 17 percent.
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Institutional Racism At The State Department?
On May 1, Bolivian President Evo Morales kicked out the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in "protest" after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry referred to Latin America as the United States' "backyard." Kerry made the statement at a mid-April Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in Washington.
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Minorities Shut Out Of Worldwide Banking System
Roughly 20 percent of all black and Hispanic households are without checking or saving accounts, essentially leaving them completely shut out of the burgeoning American banking system.
At a time when a growing segment of citizens use online banking, some even depositing paychecks using their cellphone camera, many minorities are still subjected to a “kick them while their down system” where it costs them money to get money.
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Wisconsin Leads National Black Male Incarceration
The state of Wisconsin not only has the highest percentage of incarcerated black men in the country, its rate is nearly two-times higher than the national average, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study.
Approximately one in every eight black men of working age, or 13 percent, are now imprisoned in Wisconsin, compared to the national average of just 6.7 percent. Overall, blacks compose only 6.5 percent of the state’s total population.
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Sectarian Violence Displaces Muslims In Myanmar
Sectarian Violence Explodes Against Muslims In Myanmar
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) — They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris.
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Mayor Bloomberg Fiercely Defends Stop And Frisk Practice
Mayor Bloomberg Fiercely Defends Stop And Frisk Practice
NEW YORK (AP) - In a pugnacious defense of what he called a police force bombarded by politics, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Tuesday at critics of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practice and surveillance programs.
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Black Voter Turnout Higher Than Whites
Black Voter Turnout Higher Than Whites
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.
Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press.
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“Stagecoach” Mary Fields
Mary Fields, a.k.a “Stagecoach Mary,” was an imposing African-American woman who was the second female in the United States to manage a mail route. At a time when opportunities for black women in America were practically non-existent, Fields enjoyed more freedom than most white women – or men.
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Racist Attacks Escalate in Greece
Racist Attacks Escalate in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The number of racially motivated attacks increased in Greece last year, as did the severity of the violence involved, a human rights groups said Wednesday.
As Greece’s economy declined over the past few years, these incidents spiraled out of control. Relying on international rescue loans to remain solvent, the country imposed deep spending cuts that sent unemployment soaring to around 27 percent.
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