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April 12th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in race relation news, Cover Stories, Race and Education, Latest News with 0 Comments
Equality In Environmental Education For Minority Students
When the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom happened 50 years ago to highlight political and social injustice towards African Americans, there was no “Earth Day” and no environmental justice movement. It is ironic since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring – the book credited with launching the environmental movement - was published...
April 9th, 2013
Written by Michelle Faul –... in race relation news, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Did Margaret Thatcher support or denounce Apartheid?
Was Margaret Thatcher a supporter of Apartheid? How will history judge her actions or inactions in one long and tyrannical system of white-minority rule in Africa?
The former British leader supported the apartheid government when it was at its deadliest, killing many in the late 1980s in state terrorism at home and abroad in bombings and...
April 8th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in race relation news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Race and Politics, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
A bi-partisan immigration bill is expected to emerge from the U.S. Senate. A vigorous debate over the flawed U.S. immigration system begins in earnest this week as senators finalize a bipartisan bill to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country, and grant eventual citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.
Some senators on the bi-...
April 8th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in race relation news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
On Mar. 6, ACLU affiliates in 23 states filed over 255 public records requests with law enforcement agencies to establish the extent to which federal funding fuels the militarization of state and local police departments — particularly SWAT teams."Equipping state and local law enforcement with military weapons and vehicles, military tactical training, and actual military assistance to conduct...
April 4th, 2013
Written by Christy Lemire ... in race relation news, Institutional Racism, Oppression and Privilege, Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It's early in the 1947 season. Each time the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman comes up to bat, manager Ben Chapman emerges from the dugout, stands on the field, and taunts him with increasingly...