Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
Current news, events, research, and reporting, covering the full range of racial issues, racism, discrimination, race relations in the contemporary society
August 18th, 2010
Written by Rita Cook in Spotlight, Feature Stories, Danish with 1 Comment
While the Danish have been immigrating to the United States for many years, it was between 1880 and 1920 that as many as 450,000 Danes immigrated to America. In fact, it is said that as many as one in 10 Danes left Denmark, for the most part because of bad economic conditions. When arriving in the United States, they initially settled in the Midwest, particularly in the forests of Wisconsin and...
August 9th, 2010
Written by Laura Monroe in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Racial tensions appear to be intensifying in this country, as they have not in quite some time. From the rise of the birther movement – which asserts that President Barak Obama was not born in the United States – to the passing of Arizona’s polarizing and highly controversial immigration law, SB1070, the lines being drawn re-introduce and re-invent those paradigms of self and other that has...
August 2nd, 2010
Written by Rita Rizzo in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
While visiting with the Ojibwa people in a small village outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, I was pleased to be invited to dinner with the tribal chief. At the conclusion of the meal, after sending our prayers to heaven on a cloud of smoke, the Chief took out a pen and began to draw on a napkin. Throughout dinner, we had discussed race and culture. “I want to show you why the races exist,” the Chief...
July 28th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in Spotlight, Feature Stories, French with 0 Comments
On June 21 each year, the entire city of New York pulsates with free musical events in hundreds of public spaces.“Make Music New York” is one of the “Fete de la Musique” summer festivals that originated in France, and since its inception in 1982, this annual event has expanded to over 100 countries. “People bring out their instruments and perform all over the city,” said Herve Salters, Paris-...
July 5th, 2010
Written by Danielle Douglas in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Accumulation of wealth prevented for generations of African-Americans:“Legalized discrimination – where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, the police force, or fire departments – meant that black families could...