Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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June 11th, 2013
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Medgar Evers home was rededicated Monday as a small museum that helps preserve the memory of the Mississippi civil rights leader who was assassinated 50 years ago.
The mint-green, ranch style house in north Jackson has undergone extensive preservation work. It is owned by Tougaloo College, and is available for tours by appointment.
"We're here to not only reflect on his...
June 10th, 2013
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Many Latinos find themselves stuck in poverty, reaching a tipping point in the nation's breadbasket.
On a warm spring day, farmworker Cristina Melendez was bedridden and unable to make her way back into the asparagus fields of central California for the kind of backbreaking work she's done since childhood.
The 36-year-old mother of seven was desperate. Her bank account had been at zero for months...
June 10th, 2013
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - It feels like Birmingham finally is emerging from the shadows cast by the ugly racial violence of 1963.
Long haunted by black-and-white newsreel footage of the fire hoses and police dogs city leaders turned on blacks demonstrating for civil rights, the city has a new vibe that's generating buzz all its own 50 years later.
Birmingham's culinary scene is a jewel, with...
June 6th, 2013
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Racism and discrimination allegations are troubling the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which spent $100,000 on reports that have so far found employees lamenting "a legacy of intolerance," and is now faced with a second federal complaint from a black game warden-in-training.
Only 1 percent of game wardens in the 50-year history of Texas' parks agency were black. State...
June 5th, 2013
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HONG KONG (AP) – Local football authorities investigate reports of racist abuse during Hong Kong's home friendly against the Philippines this week.
Hong Kong fans at Tuesday's game called their Filipino counterparts "slaves," threw bottles at them, and booed the Philippines national anthem, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper and a Filipino journalist at the game. The Philippines...