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March 18th, 2013
Written by Jenny Barchfiel... in race relation news, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Many Brazilians cast their country as a racial democracy where people of different groups have long intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper, or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation.
In Brazil, whites are at the top of the social pyramid, dominating professions of wealth, prestige,...
March 17th, 2013
Written by Hope Yen in race relation news, Cover Stories, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Latest News with 1 Comment
Latino population growth impacts racial divides all across America in many ways. Such fast growth of Latinos is blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.
With a historic and steady decline in the growth of the white population, the U.S. is rapidly becoming a nation...
March 17th, 2013
Written by Mark Sherman - ... in race relation news, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices are often rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America.
Members of the court have firsthand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have...
March 13th, 2013
Written by Roger Alford - ... in race relation news, Race and Education, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - It isn't Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who comes out swinging in his first TV ad of his 2014 re-election campaign. It's his wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
"You've seen the ads attacking my husband," Chao, speaking directly into the camera, says in a spot that's set to begin airing across Kentucky on Thursday. "As Mitch McConnell's wife, I've...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Jeannie Nuss - ... in Race & Politics, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas is among states that do not have Hispanics representatives in the state legislature.
Arkansas has a burgeoning Hispanic population, but without Latinos in the legislature issues targeting the newer Arkansans have come up rarely in the current legislative session.
Two Latinas ran for the Legislature last year and lost, leaving Arkansas as one of more than a dozen...