April 2013
April 5th, 2013
Written by Nicholas Riccar... in Race & Politics, Race Relations with 1 Comment
PHOENIX (AP) — On the political map of the Southwest, Arizona stands out.
Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico are independent-minded states that once leaned Republican but are trending Democratic, partly because of increasing numbers of Hispanic voters alienated from the GOP by its tough stance on illegal immigration.
California, a GOP bastion for decades, is now solidly Democratic and the ultimate...
April 5th, 2013
Written by Frank Jordans -... in Common Ties That Bind with 1 Comment
BERLIN (AP) — A German pastor due to stand trial for allegedly inciting violence at an anti-Nazi demonstration said Tuesday that authorities risk deterring people from standing up to right-wing extremists if he is convicted.
Prosecutors accuse Lothar Koenig of serious breach of the peace, attempted obstruction of justice, and attempted coercion at a protest in the eastern city of Dresden two...
April 4th, 2013
Written by Christy Lemire ... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It's early in the 1947 season. Each time the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman comes up to bat, manager Ben Chapman emerges from the dugout, stands on the field, and taunts him with increasingly...
April 4th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) - A University of New Hampshire student research project on the Civil War finds that despite the state being one of the most liberal in the nation at the time, racism was common in the letters of its soldiers, including those who said they supported freeing the slaves.
Nathan Marzoli, a history major from Dover, investigated the soldiers' attitudes for his senior undergraduate...
April 4th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
The YWCA of Rochester, New York has an annual drive to “spearhead the local effort for the national Stand against Racism every April.”
Poet Robert Frost once asserted, we should “never be bullied into silence.” His words parallel the efforts of the YWCA of Rochester (New York) and Monroe County; the Y is asking the community at large to speak up and take a stand against racism.
David Mancuso is...