October 2013
October 11th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
The Supreme Court will hear yet another race-based college admissions case on October 15, agreeing to review a lower court's decision that said Michigan's ban on the use of race in college acceptance decisions was unconstitutional.
What's unusual is that the case will be heard by just Supreme Court eight justices, with Justice Elena Kagan choosing to sit-out the case.
The case, Schuette v....
October 11th, 2013
Written by Kyle Hightower ... in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
A study released Wednesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows that the WNBA continues to be the leader among professional sports leagues for race and gender hiring practices.
For the second straight year the WNBA posted the highest combined grade in the history of the group's annual Racial and Gender Report Cards, which conduct analysis of the...
October 11th, 2013
Written by Todd Richmond -... in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Assembly Republicans moved closer Wednesday to passing legislation that would make stripping public schools of race-based nicknames and mascots more difficult, pushing the proposal through committee and setting up a floor vote next week.
Republicans introduced the bill to help the Mukwonago Area School District, which has refused a state Department of Public Instruction order to drop its "Indians...
October 9th, 2013
Written by Mari Yamagughi in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
A Japanese court has ordered a group of anti-Korean activists to pay a Korean school in Kyoto 12 million yen ($120,000) in compensation for disturbing classes and scaring students by shouting "kimchi stinks," ''children of spies" and "destroy Korean schools" and other threats in hate speech rallies outside the school.
Monday's ruling acknowledged for the first time the explicit insults used in...
October 9th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and with it comes a flurry of new reports that address breast cancer across race and ethnic groups.
An estimated 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 39,620 breast cancer deaths are expected to occur among U.S. women in 2013, according to an American Cancer Society October 1 report.
"Historically, white women have had the highest breast cancer...