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March 26th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - Associated Press in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - The right people at the right time in the right location, but does that mean the NYPD brass encourages racial profiling?
That phrase - repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor - is at the crux of a civil rights challenge to the New York Police Department's contentions tactic known as stop, question, and frisk.
"So, who are the right people?" asks Officer...
March 26th, 2013
Written by Jesse Washington - AP National Writer in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
Is the newly elected, Pope Francis, Latino, Italian, or both? One non-Catholic or casual observer may wonder what difference it makes, why does it matter so much? Well, to millions, it does.
He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the "first Latino pope," a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for some Latinos in the United States, there's a...
March 26th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
While America’s Hip-Hop is again under scrutiny within the black community as a stereotypical haven of gangsta rap, drugs, and negative urban lifestyle, the real hip-hop culture as a political movement continues to flourish globally.
That was the message during the two-day “Poetics & Politics of Hip-Hop Cultures Symposium” that took place at the University of Arizona in Tucson February 7-8,...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Cristina Silva - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - A proposed overhaul of Arizona's early voting laws has been blasted by Latino youth who say the Republican-backed effort would suppress minority turnout just as more Hispanics are registering to vote.
Students on spring break hosted a rally at the Arizona Legislature on Thursday in opposition to two measures that would limit who gets to vote early and how mail ballots are returned...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 31 Comments
Editor’s Note: A federal district judge began hearing a class-action challenge to NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy which yielded more stops of young black males in 2011 than their total black population in the city. The lawyers are arguing that the policy unfairly targets minorities.
NEW YORK (AP) - Devin Almonor, the teenage son of a former police officer, said he was thrown against an unmarked car...
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