March 2013
March 27th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Business Biases & Building Blocks, Other with 1 Comment
Say the word “diversity” and others will probably think immediately of the adjective “racial” as a preceding adjective. “Diversity,” of course, is a word with many, many definitions. Yes, the most common is racial diversity, but — especially in the workplace — diverse associations are equally common. The word could apply to the difference between people of different genders, different sexual...
March 27th, 2013
Written by Jonathan Kamins... in Race & Politics, Race Relations with 0 Comments
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A Washington State Senate committee heard testimony Tuesday on legislation to make it easier for minorities to get elected to local government posts.
The Washington Voting Rights Act, as supporters call it, would encourage court challenges to cities, counties, school districts, and others to push them to switch from at-large to district elections in areas where large...
March 26th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - The right people at the right time in the right location, but does that mean the NYPD brass encourages racial profiling?
That phrase - repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor - is at the crux of a civil rights challenge to the New York Police Department's contentions tactic known as stop, question, and frisk.
"So, who are the right people?" asks Officer...
March 26th, 2013
Written by Jesse Washingto... in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
Is the newly elected, Pope Francis, Latino, Italian, or both? One non-Catholic or casual observer may wonder what difference it makes, why does it matter so much? Well, to millions, it does.
He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the "first Latino pope," a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for some Latinos in the United States, there's a...
March 26th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
While America’s Hip-Hop is again under scrutiny within the black community as a stereotypical haven of gangsta rap, drugs, and negative urban lifestyle, the real hip-hop culture as a political movement continues to flourish globally.
That was the message during the two-day “Poetics & Politics of Hip-Hop Cultures Symposium” that took place at the University of Arizona in Tucson February 7-8,...