Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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June 1st, 2013
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - An annual state report released on Friday showed that black motorists were more likely to be pulled over and arrested during traffic stops by Missouri law enforcement last year, continuing a decade-long trend.
The report, released by Attorney General Chris Koster, showed that in 2012, black drivers were 62 percent more likely to be pulled over than white drivers in...
May 31st, 2013
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The controversial co-chair of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley resigned his post, but not before embroiling the right wing governor in what critics say is an even more unenviable position than her Tea Party affiliation.
Fellow Tea Party activist, Roan Garcia-Quintana is also an admitted white supremacist so deeply rooted that even on his way out of power in the Haley 2014 reelection campaign, he...
May 31st, 2013
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A Pennsylvania judge received a 30-year in prison sentence after his conviction for scheming with private prison officials to jail thousands of innocent juveniles in return for more than $1 million in kickbacks.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned more than 4,000 convictions handed down by Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, who engineered the scheme between the years 2003 through 2008 in exchange...
May 31st, 2013
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NEW YORK (AP) - Indonesia's president is receiving an award for promoting religious freedom from a New York-based foundation, prompting anger from human rights groups that say the country is not doing enough to prevent attacks on religious minorities in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is in town for United Nations meetings on global development...
May 30th, 2013
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's coalition government was in disarray Thursday over efforts to crackdown on the racist violence escalating in Greece, as majority conservatives and their center-left partners clashed over the best way to tackle anti-immigrant violence.
The embarrassing rift in conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' government occurred amid pressure from the European Union and...