August 2013

August 18th, 2013
Written by Jonathan Lemire in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Bill DeBlasio
In the New York City mayoral race, Bill de Blasio has gone from the back of the pack to the lead with incredible speed. The most liberal candidate in the race, whose City Hall bid was floundering mere weeks ago, now enjoys a shocking perch atop the polls in the latest turn of the most unpredictable citywide campaign in decades. And with the Democratic primary now less than a month away, de...
August 18th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility, Race Relations with 0 Comments
The 2013 March on Washington is a wake-up call that equality for all Americans, especially black Americans, still does not exist even after 150 years.
The 2013 March on Washington is a wake-up call that equality for all Americans, especially black Americans, still does not exist even after 150 years. This Wednesday, President Barack Obama and tens of thousands of Americans will commemorate the March on Washington which occurred in 1963, some 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation that was designed to end slavery in the United States and...
August 17th, 2013
Written by Bill Barrow in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Rev. Joseph Lowery
ATLANTA (AP) — State lawmakers from around the country have formed an alliance they say will combat restrictive voting laws that have proliferated in recent years in Republican-run states, changes that won't face the same federal scrutiny after the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a key portion of the Voting Rights Act. Legislators from Georgia, Nevada and Iowa, among other states, announced the...
August 16th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Race Relations with 0 Comments
Diversity Iceberg Graphic
Wisdom to accept and embrace diversity, and end racism and other forms of closed-mindedness is all around us. We just have to know where to look for it. Far too often, we only look within for solutions, when we should be looking outside, far, far outside our typical mental and geographic boundaries. America's treasured diversity is, after all, a diversity of ideas as well as cultures. Each of the...
August 16th, 2013
Written by Adriana Gomez L... in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Aeromexico Ad
After releasing a producer's casting call requesting only light-skinned actors for a television commercial, Mexico's Aeromexico airline and its ad agency have issued public apologies for the incident. Mexico's population is largely dark-skinned, but Mexican television ads routinely feature light-skinned actors, sparking accusations of racial discrimination. The commercial has not yet been made,...

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