Race and Religion

Female Soldier Alleges Harassment Over Muslim Name

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Sectarian Violence Displaces Muslims In Myanmar

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Black Voter Turnout Higher Than Whites

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Hope Yen

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.

Remember Martin Luther King Jr.

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Janice S. Ellis Ph.D.

One of the best ways to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. is to continue some aspect of the work for which he lived and died. But there is so much left to be done.

Forty-five years ago on April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet claimed the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there in support of the garbage workers who were striking to get better wages.