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May 8th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
On May 1, GMI Ratings released its annual “Women on Boards” report, which found the percentage of female directors in large companies — those among the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 — rose only one-half of a percentage point since December 2011. The rate of increase rose slightly higher among smaller companies in the S&P Midcap and S&P Smallcap indices. Since 2009, the percentage of...
May 7th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
The state of Wisconsin not only has the highest percentage of incarcerated black men in the country, its rate is nearly two-times higher than the national average, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study.
Approximately one in every eight black men of working age, or 13 percent, are now imprisoned in Wisconsin, compared to the national average of just 6.7 percent. Overall,...
May 7th, 2013
Written by Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WJC Warns Europe Of Neo-Nazi Political Party Resurgence
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The World Jewish Congress said Tuesday it is greatly concerned about the emergence of neo-Nazi parties such as the Golden Dawn in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary, and Germany's National Democratic Party.
A study presented at the WJC assembly in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, highlighted the links regarding the...
May 6th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
One teacher won’t be getting a “Happy Teacher’s Day” card this year: In April, a 61-year-old Texas educator denied claims she ever fondled a 7-year-old black student because, stating in her own defense, she “doesn’t like black students because she was prejudiced.”
For the rest of the nation’s educators, the entire week of May 6-12 is set aside each year – including National Teacher Day, May 7 -...
May 6th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in National Collegiate Dialogue with 19 Comments
Think about your social media friends and followers. Are most of them of your same race and ethnicity or are your online buddies a multicultural mix? Long touted as a colorblind way to bring people around the globe together, a recent study on social media shows that segregation may exist.
A late 2012 Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that different racial and ethnic...
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