March 2013
March 19th, 2013
Written by Erica Werner in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. taxpayers and ultimately get a chance to become citizens, a significant step for the Tea Party favorite amid growing Republican acceptance of the idea.
"Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport" the millions already here, the potential 2016 presidential...
March 19th, 2013
Written by David Brandt - ... in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
Overall graduation rates improved among players at schools in this year's men's NCAA basketball tournament, and African-American players in particular did better, according to a study released Monday.
The annual report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) shows African-American players' graduation success rates increased from 59 percent in...
March 19th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the five million New Yorkers stopped, questioned, and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who said they were illegally stopped said Monday. New York Police Department lawyers countered that officers must go where the crime is - and the crime is overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
A civil...
March 18th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Just when we appear to be making some headway in uncovering and confronting racism, sexism, ageism, and a host of other “isms” in the workplace, a new inequity has been identified. The issue of workplace classism has arisen at a time when a national conversation is taking place about American socioeconomic classes. So classism at work is a new problem, right? No, classism has been prevalent in...
March 18th, 2013
Written by Jenny Barchfiel... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Many Brazilians cast their country as a racial democracy where people of different groups have long intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper, or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation.
In Brazil, whites are at the top of the social pyramid, dominating professions of wealth, prestige,...