Have you ever been guilty of an occasional verbal faux pas, making an accidental, unintended bigoted statement, or asking a bigoted-sounding question? No doubt, many of us are guilty of being the accidental bigot.
I have been guilty of being the accidental bigot more than once, unfortunately.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama argued Friday for keeping a key provision of federal voting rights law in place, saying it will become harder but not impossible to help people who believe their rights at the polls have been violated if the Supreme Court decides to strike down that part of the law.
MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) - It was a quick affair: the couple met in a restaurant and wed the next day. A Kosovo Serb man and an ethnic Albanian woman joined in marriage, unusual in war-torn Kosovo. Fifteen years later, they were an apparent target of a bombing in the ethnically split city of Mitrovica.
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Dr. Robert Slawson and his wife, Mavis, attended a lecture in 2004 about African-American physicians in the Civil War. That experience prompted the retired oncologist to write a book dedicated to black men and women who practiced medicine during the war.
Slawson, a volunteer at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, had just finished a research project on medical education in the United States. In it, the principal historians said that African-Americans were not included in formal medical education until after the Civil War.
