Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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August 5th, 2013
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Dr. Martin Luther King once described Sunday morning as the most segregated time in America with whites going to white churches and blacks and other minorities going to ethnic churches. But that maybe changing as more are Christians opting to join multi-ethnic mega churches.
Cyndi Hill, who is half Korean, and Jose Ferrell, who is African-American, are two people who have opted for the mega...
August 5th, 2013
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi civil-rights activists are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer in 2014. Some say race relations might've improved, but people must remain vigilant to protect voting rights.
"The struggle to make democracy work still continues," Frank Figgers, vice chairman of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Inc., said Friday at...
August 5th, 2013
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OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (AP) – A Sikh who lost his father in a hate shooting teamed up with a former skinhead to work for peace. Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka's father and five others at a Sikh temple in the U.S. exactly a year ago, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead invited him to dinner.
But Kaleka accepted, and he's grateful he did. Since then, the...
August 4th, 2013
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SEATTLE (AP) - Justices on the Washington Supreme Court on Thursday decried what they described as persistent racial bias in jury selection and called for new protections against it, possibly including the abolition of a legal tradition that dates back more than 700 years.
In considering the case of a black man who appealed his felony murder conviction, the justices launched into a discussion...
August 2nd, 2013
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Blacks and Hispanics will be held to lower academic goals if the Florida Department of Education and the state Board of Education. But, setting less ambitious academic achievement goals for black and Hispanic students in Florida is discriminatory, according to a civil rights complaint filed Friday with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The complaint filed by the Southern...