Institutional Racism

Urban Releaf: Improving The Environment & Reducing Racial Stressors In Oakland

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Jodie Blankenship

Concrete sidewalks offer little inspiration for environmental awareness or creating a positive effect on race relations in a community. Their chief duty is for pedestrian transportation, and the maze design is not aesthetically pleasing or a respite from the city streets. A concrete wilderness is ideal to navigate through a confusing city, but these urban trails cannot connect all the needs of the people in a bustling thoroughfare.

Blacks & Latinos Collaborate For Civil Rights, Economic Justice

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Manny Otiko

Traditionally, African Americans and Latinos worked and lived alongside each other in urban areas, and despite some tensions in the past, those old beefs have given way to more political unions. Nowadays, you will likely see a Civil Rights leader such as Rev. Al Sharpton, marching in an immigrants' rights demonstration, as well as protesting police brutality. And in the Deep South, black leaders collaborate with Latino activists to protest harsh immigration laws.

What’s In A Name? The Know-Nothing Political Party

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Russell Roberts

Today the subject of immigration is a hot-button issue and debate on the topic rages all across the political spectrum. Yet this is nothing new in American history. In the mid 19th century, a political party sprang up based on prejudice against immigrants and Catholics: The American Party, popularly known as the Know-Nothings.

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