Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today

Current news, events, research, and reporting, covering the full range of racial issues, racism, discrimination, race relations in the contemporary society

May 11th, 2010
Written by Jake Singleton in Spotlight, Cover Stories, Jewish/African-American with 0 Comments
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On the morning of February 3, 1903, clergy, attorneys, educators and other prominent African-American citizens from St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph gathered in the A.M.E. church in Jefferson City, Mo. They came to plan their presentation at a committee hearing in the Missouri House of Representatives to show why it should kill a bill that would require all railroads in Missouri to run...
April 28th, 2010
Written by Sonya Rose in Spotlight, Feature Stories, Jewish/African-American with 0 Comments
Another tempest loomed over the horizon in Brooklyn's Crown Heights. A 2008 series of events led to what some believe aided in fueling volatile relations between black and Jewish area residents, culminating in a confluence of sect-on-sect crime that might ultimately prove even more hazardous than the scarring the community experienced back in 1991. That summer, a 7-year-old Guyanese boy, Gavin...
April 21st, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
"Gen-Xers" walking arm-in-arm down the sidewalk
“I mean, how often do you witness a miracle?” one of my friends, an English as a Second Language teacher in New Jersey asked me when I mentioned I’d been asked to write a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.What, I pondered, was I supposed to say?Until USARiseUp mentioned the story to me, I hadn’t been sitting in the corner of my sofa, looking up occasionally from my book, my glass of...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Jane Mersky Leder in Spotlight, Feature Stories, Jewish/African-American with 0 Comments
Nothing could have prepared then high school juniors Tyjuan Morrow and Richie Gallant for the eye-opening experience of visiting each other’s school. Morrow, who is black and lived in the projects with his mother and two of six siblings, attended one of the lowest-performing public schools in St. Louis. Gallant, white and Jewish, lived in a comfortable suburb with his parents and younger brother...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Lillian A. Jackson in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
What can be said of race relations among Americans in the new millennium? It is 144 years since the emancipation of the slaves, 55 years since Brown v. The Board of Education, and 45 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Today a black man is the president of the United States. Nevertheless, how far have we really come and how far do we have to go? RiseUp set out to learn how...

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