March 2013
March 21st, 2013
Written by Pete Yost - Ass... in Stereotypes & Labels with 1 Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks express doubt that police can or will help.
Nearly 2 of 3 hate crimes go unreported to police, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Thursday. For the years 2003-06, 46 percent of hate crimes were reported...
March 21st, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, never seems to tire of flinging vile and inaccurate accusations at others, and this week is no exception. According to his new biography, Ailes alleges that President Obama is “lazy.” Mediaite.com quotes Ailes as saying that Obama “never worked a day in his life” and “never earned a penny that wasn’t public money.” He chided the president for playing golf and...
March 20th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials were not concerned with whether patrol officers were saving lives or helping people under a policy that required them to detain and sometimes search anyone they deemed suspicious. They were focused on one thing: numbers, according to a New York City police officer testifying in a federal challenge to some street stops.
Adhyl Polanco said his superiors told him...
March 20th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Race Relations with 0 Comments
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The 64 schools in the women's NCAA basketball tournament combined to graduate 90 percent of their players.
The findings are part of the annual report released Tuesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
The study also shows the gap between graduation rates of white and African-American players shrunk to 6 percentage points....
March 20th, 2013
Written by Rita Cook in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
There is one thing you can count on when you visit Germany and that is the fact that you won’t go hungry. On a recent trip to Germany’s Fairy Tale Road featuring the Grimm Brothers, I had the pleasure of enjoying a number of tasty treats from the northern region in Hamelin where the Pied Piper put the town on the map to Kassel, Germany and Hanau where local specialties ruled the day like Ahle...