June 2013
June 20th, 2013
Written by Soumitro Sen in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
When I moved to the U.S. as a student from India, one of the first things my mother begged me to buy was fish. “When your dad went shopping last Sunday (the weekend after I left), he missed you so much at the fish counter, he couldn’t buy a thing and just came back with veggies,” she said over the phone.
I, like most Bengalis — residents of the state of West Bengal in eastern India — love fish....
June 19th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
A sobering new study found that at least one black person died every 28 hours at the hands of a police officer, security guard, or some other level of “self-appointed” vigilante in 2012 racial discrimination cases.
Perhaps even more alarmingly, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement study also found that number could ultimately prove to be much greater and that the use or concept of employing deadly...
June 19th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Miami-Dade Police remain under fire after the mother of a 14-year-old boy produced a cell phone video showing officers choking and beating her son in what appears to be an unprovoked attack that illustrates how racial discrimination today remains high.
Though officers later reasoned they only accosted Tremaine McMillan after he gave them a “dehumanizing stare,” they apparently had little trouble...
June 19th, 2013
Written by Kelly Burgess in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
Genealogical research is like solving a complex mystery. For people from minority racial groups, however, finding the clues to the puzzle can present a greater challenge because of the gaps in their family histories.
“In the past, the names of the minority people in an area were often never even recorded,” says Elizabeth Powell Crowe, author of Genealogy Online. “Sometimes this was because they...
June 18th, 2013
Written by Mark Sherman - ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law.
With highly anticipated decisions on affirmative action and voting rights imminent, the justices added a case to their calendar for the fall that involves the Fair Housing Act. The...