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November 5th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Jewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas on a Tennessee campus tour. A hostile student in Maryland challenging his professor to a fight after the teacher limited the use of cell phones and laptops during lectures.
In a society where anonymous Internet commenters freely...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by Lori Hinnant - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Israel's prime minister issued a warning to his country's enemies, and France's president vowed to fight anti-Semitism on online social networks and beyond, as the two paid homage to four people killed at a Jewish school in this country's worst terrorist attack in years.
Tears flowed and both pain and hope were palpable at the ceremony in Toulouse, where a radical Islamist...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by Will Weissert - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State senators worried Oct. 30, that Texas has gone too far in imposing a zero-tolerance policy for bad behavior in schools, noting that minority students are bearing the brunt of the punishment and school police officers are writing too many tickets for insignificant infractions.
Tony Fabelo, an Austin-based criminal justice consultant, told a joint committee meeting of the...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by David Pitt - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 0 Comments
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman who claims she was subjected to racial slurs by co-workers, including finding a doll whose face was painted black hanging outside her home with threats to quit her job at Deere & Co., has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company.
Copa Burse, 48, said racial slurs were painted on her work locker at the Deere plant Ankeny, and that she was...
November 1st, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
Two things can be true at the same time.
Yes, there's still racism in America — by one new measure, more than there was four years ago.
That is deeply disappointing.
No, this is not going to determine the outcome of next week's election. The economy, health care, foreign policy and so much more will. Americans will, by and large, assess the performance and plans of the President and the critique...
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