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May 9th, 2013
Written by Hope Yen in Race & Politics, Latest News with 2 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Making history, America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data shows. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996.
Blacks were the only race or ethnic group to show an increase in voter turnout last...
May 9th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with the black unemployment rate at about 14 percent, almost double the overall unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, Foster Williams says that unemployed African-Americans need to take a new approach.
Williams is managing partner of Search4uinc.com, an employment networking organization based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Williams, who says he has 10...
May 9th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
If you read USAonRace, you no doubt don’t need to be preached to, however, it may interest you to know that diversity has economic payoffs. According to Sophia Kerby and Crosby Burns, writers for the online publication for the Center for American Progress, “The Top 10 Economic Facts of Diversity in the Workplace,” July 12, 2012, those businesses with a diverse workforce — one that includes gay...
May 8th, 2013
Written by Michael Biesecker - AP Staff Writer in Feature Stories with 2 Comments
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim - she's a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they taunted her, calling her "Sgt. Hussein" and asking what God she prayed to.
So before deploying to Afghanistan last year for her second war tour, she legally changed her name - to Nadia Christian Nova.
This did not solve her problems.
Instead,...
May 8th, 2013
Written by Erica Werner in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — A landmark immigration bill in the Senate is facing a critical trial — whether it can survive hundreds of amendments from the left and right and still emerge relatively intact.
The test will begin Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. As of Tuesday evening's deadline for filing amendments, some 300 were offered by Democrats and Republicans. A number of them,...
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