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March 11th, 2013
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Gary R. Howard, who has 35 years of experience working with issues of...
March 8th, 2013
Written by Sheila Burke - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector tests to keep racists off his force.
Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a series of police scandals that for a few months left Coopertown with no police at...
March 8th, 2013
Written by Frances D’Emilio - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
ROME (AP) - Comic Beppe Grillo's populist tirades were seen as a benign outlet for popular anger in the days his protest movement was a sideshow in Italian politics. Now that he's one of Italy's most powerful figures, his views are coming under greater scrutiny - and a history of anti-Semitic statements have started to raise concern outside the country.
Grillo's 5-Star Movement captured a quarter...
March 8th, 2013
Written by Kyle Hightower - Associated Press in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The number of sports editors that are women and people of color showed some improvement at the 150 websites and newspapers that belong to Associated Press Sports Editors, according to a study released Friday.
Still, the report released every two years by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports again gave the members of APSE a failing...
March 7th, 2013
Written by Brock Vergakis - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - Ariadne Partlow dreamed of graduating Spelman College and moving on to medical school, but instead of studying biology this semester, she worked at a fast-food Chinese restaurant.
The Jackson, Tenn., native was among thousands of students who unexpectedly either had to stay at home, transfer to a less expensive school or find new money when the U.S. Department of Education quietly...
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