Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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July 15th, 2013
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NEW YORK (AP) – Blacks and whites from all across the country locked arms in rallies to protest the Zimmerman verdict.
Thousands of demonstrators from across the country - chanting, praying and even fighting tears - protested a jury's decision to clear neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager while the Justice Department considered whether...
July 15th, 2013
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ROME (AP) – Racism is on full display in Italy as the country grapples with immigration.
Premier Enrico Letta has harshly criticized a top Italian senator who likened the country's first black Cabinet minister to an orangutan, the latest episode of high-profile racial tension in a nation grappling with immigration.
In a statement Sunday, Letta denounced Roberto Calderoli's words as "unacceptable...
July 12th, 2013
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VIENNA (AP) - It was 1943 when Vienna's Nazi overlords gave the order to destroy the city's oldest Jewish cemetery, demanding it be leveled and the tombstones attesting to centuries of Jewish existence there be destroyed.
Desperate to save their heritage, the city's shrinking Jewish community decided to act. Defying the possibility of prison, deportation or execution, they buried the gravestones...
July 11th, 2013
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans Wednesday confronted the politically volatile issue of immigration Wednesday, their ranks divided and their way forward unclear even as national GOP leaders pressured them to act.
The latest prominent Republican to wade into the debate was former President George W. Bush, who urged Congress to reach a "positive resolution" on overhauling U.S. immigration laws,...
July 10th, 2013
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In his first meeting with the entire 43-member Congressional Black Caucus since May 2011, President Obama used the July 9 White House gathering to try to mend fences with black leaders, many of whom criticized Obama for not doing enough to help African-Americans during hard economic times or deal with lingering racial discrimination and prejudice in the nation.
"The lines of communication have...