Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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January 20th, 2014
Written by Lucas L. Johnso... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
As Americans reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., an audiotape of an interview with the civil rights leader discovered in a Tennessee attic sheds new light on a famous phone call John F. Kennedy made to King's wife more than 50 years ago.
Historians generally agree that Kennedy's phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husband's arrest in October 1960 - and Robert...
January 7th, 2014
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Millions of Egyptian Christians thronged churches across this mainly Muslim nation for Christmas Mass, held Monday amid unusually tight security but with congregations filled with hope ahead of a key vote on a new constitution that enshrines equality and criminalizes discrimination.
The stepped up security was in response to fears that Islamic militants loyal to ousted President Mohammed Morsi...
December 24th, 2013
Written by Jesse Washingto... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
What is the race and color of Jesus, and why does it matter?
For two thousand years, he has been worshipped and adored. Multitudes look to him each day. And yet nobody really knows the face of Jesus. That has not stopped humanity's imagination, or its yearning to draw Jesus as close as possible. So when this Christmas season brought a torrent of debate over whether Jesus was a white man, it...
December 24th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or of some other religious or spiritual persuasion, the true meaning of Christmas, that of peace and goodwill toward men, should resonate with us all.
But what has happened to the notion, the goal, of achieving peace in this war-torn, racially and ethnically divisive world – where unrest is not only present in distant lands but also right in...
December 24th, 2013
Written by Martha Mendoza in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Hispanics lag behind in educational achievement despite being the fastest growing minority in the United States. While California has the fastest rate of growth of Hispanics, the wide achievement gap in education persists.
As Hispanics surpass white Californians in population next year, the state becomes a potential model for the rest of the country, which is going through a slower but similar...