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October 9th, 2012
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York taxpayers paid more than $5 million in the last two years to settle more than a dozen sexual harassment cases against state workers, according to records obtained Oct. 4.
The cases include $1.79 million paid to a woman who worked for the state prisons system in western New York. The incident reported in 2000 and not settled until 2009, showed $1.1 million going to...
October 5th, 2012
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GENEVA (AP) — Amid the firestorm over an American film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva voted Friday on a resolution by a group of African and Latin American governments urging countries "to counter the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred."
The developing world nations are essentially telling the West: Curb free speech that inflicts...
October 3rd, 2012
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — An attorney for a sheriff in the U.S. state of North Carolina accused of illegally arresting Latinos without probable cause to boost deportations says the lawman isn't interested in a settlement with the Justice Department.
Attorney S.C. Kitchen told government lawyers Wednesday that Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson hasn't done wrong and his deputies don't...
September 27th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 1 Comment
The U.S. Census Bureau released its annual poverty figures recently that painted a dire picture of one in five children under 18-years-old lived in poverty in 2011. According to Bread for the World’s analysis of the hunger and poverty data, this includes 16.1 million children, or 21.9 percent. The numbers also indicate that over a quarter of all children under 5-years-old lived in poverty in 2011...
July 31st, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
As we move toward Election Day, the racial tension and bitter rhetoric is building to a fever pitch. It seems as though spouting stereotypic and bias notions and taking racist actions, then denying the obvious racism displayed, is becoming more commonplace than at any time since the Jim Crow era.Dr. Billy Vaughn of Diversity Training University International (DTUI), coined a phrase more than a...
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