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November 2nd, 2012
Written by Lori Hinnant - ... in race relations news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Race and Religion, Latest News with 0 Comments
TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Israel's prime minister issued a warning to his country's enemies, and France's president vowed to fight anti-Semitism on online social networks and beyond, as the two paid homage to four people killed at a Jewish school in this country's worst terrorist attack in years.
Tears flowed and both pain and hope were palpable at the ceremony in Toulouse, where a radical Islamist...
November 2nd, 2012
Written by Will Weissert -... in race relations news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Education, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State senators worried Oct. 30, that Texas has gone too far in imposing a zero-tolerance policy for bad behavior in schools, noting that minority students are bearing the brunt of the punishment and school police officers are writing too many tickets for insignificant infractions.
Tony Fabelo, an Austin-based criminal justice consultant, told a joint committee meeting of the...
November 1st, 2012
Written by Alexa Olesen - ... in race relations news, Spotlight, Oppression and Privilege, Chinese, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Socialization, Latest News with 0 Comments
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese government think tank is urging the country's leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.
Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others...
October 30th, 2012
Written by Jay Reeves - As... in race relations news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish off that provision.
The basic question is whether state and local governments that once boasted of their racial...
October 25th, 2012
Written by Geir Moulson - ... in race relations news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Socialization, Latest News with 0 Comments
BERLIN (AP) — Germany opened a long-awaited memorial October 23, to the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, who were killed by the Nazis in what one survivor called "the forgotten Holocaust" — and pledged to fight the discrimination the minority still faces in Europe today.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck inaugurated the memorial at an official ceremony in Berlin's...