Oppression and Privilege

Fast Food Workers Fight For Minimum Wage

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Glenn Minnis

Alvin Turner met Chad Tall late last month in pursuit of a cause that now spans the course of both their lifetimes.

Turner was there back in 1968, when Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to demonstrate in support of striking sanitation workers like him merely seeking a livable wage. This time, the 78-year-old rebel took his defiant stance in New York’s Time Square, side-by-side, the 20-year-old
Tall and 400 other protesting fast food workers again moved to take matters to the streets.

Mayor Bloomberg Fiercely Defends Stop And Frisk Practice

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Mayor Bloomberg Fiercely Defends Stop And Frisk Practice

NEW YORK (AP) - In a pugnacious defense of what he called a police force bombarded by politics, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Tuesday at critics of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practice and surveillance programs.

How Immigrants Literally Built This Country

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Russell Roberts

We’ve all heard in general terms how immigrants helped build the United States of America. However, did you know that statement is literally true?

Without Chinese immigrant workers, the Transcontinental Railroad would not exist. The railroad sparked the development of the West, so it is literally true that without immigrants, America’s western expansion would have been quite different. Interestingly, because of prejudice, it almost never happened.

Conversation Of The Week LVI: Growing Racist Incidents on College and University Campuses

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First Racial Incident:

A day after essentially dismissing student concerns of racial discrimination as unfounded, Purdue University officials are now investigating instances of hate crimes after the words “white supremacy” and a stick-figure drawing of a body hanging from a tree were found scribbled on a placard and left at the scene an equality march.

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