Oppression and Privilege

Another Police Department Charged With Racial Slurs And Jokes

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CHICAGO (AP) - A veteran suburban Chicago police officer alleges two fellow officers at the Elgin Police Department used racial slurs and made jokes about the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.

Officer Phillipp Brown, who is black, claims the comments and actions of two white officers contributed to "creating and perpetuating a hostile work environment."

Attorneys for Brown filed the lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago. It names Lt. Sean Rafferty and Internal Investigator James Barnes.

Wilmington 10 Portrayed As Political Prisoners Receive Pardons

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Martha Waggoner - Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners.

Perdue issued pardons of innocence Monday for the nine black men and one white woman who received prison sentences totaling nearly 300 years for the 1971 firebombing of a Wilmington grocery store during three days of violence that included the shooting of a black teenager by police.

Native American Healers To Assist Rural Hospital System

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Kristi Eaton - Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The country's largest rural, nonprofit hospital system is hiring two traditional Native American healers to train medical staff in the Dakotas and Minnesota in an effort to better serve the American Indian patient population.

Sanford Health is in the process of hiring a Lakota/Dakota and an Ojibwe to serve as consultants as part of a three-year $12 million Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services award, said Read Sulik, Sanford's senior vice president for Behavioral Health Services.

Mississippi Governor Discusses 2013 Education & Police Related Racial Profiling

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Governor Phil Bryant

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Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said education dominates his 2013 legislative agenda, from merit pay for teachers to charter schools that will receive public funding but be free of some state regulations.

"Ninety percent of our goal this session is to not only talk about education but get something transformational passed," the Republican said in an interview with The Associated Press. The three-month session begins at noon Jan. 8.

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