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LL Cool J & Brad Paisley Lyrics On Race Relations

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Glenn Minnis

LL Cool J & Brad Paisley lyrics on race relations creates negative stir within both music genres.

Music has long been celebrated as a language all of its own. Nonetheless, industry trendsetters LL Cool J. and Brad Paisley are being taking to task for what critics blast as their naïve lyrics on the issue of race relations.

Highlighting Racism In Cuba Brings Punishment

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Russell Roberts

Highlighting racism In Cuba brings punishment.

Often the people bold enough to point out racist aspects in our society are punished and this almost certainly seems to be the case with a leading Cuban official who recently decried the “blatant racism” on the island in an opinion piece published in the March 23, 2013 edition of the New York Times.

Ending Stop & Frisk: A National Priority

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Ending the NYPD stop and frisk policy is a national priority.

NEW YORK (AP) - Ending the New York Police Department's extensive use of stop and frisk is a top goal for the nation's oldest civil rights organization, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Tuesday in pressing for new laws to rein in a practice he said amounted to racial injustice on a massive scale.

Lozen: Hero To Her People

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Until recently, American history was a history of white heroes and heroines. While that has begun to change with the inclusion of more African-Americans, other ethnic groups still remain excluded. The story of the great female Apache Lozen, is a prime example of how history still ignores many others. 

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