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
June 25th, 2013
Written by Carolyn Thompso... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Racism in education is a long-standing issue in America, but many believe that charter schools benefit black and Hispanic English language learners as well as students from poor families and other ethnic groups, more so than their peers from traditional public schools, a new study shows.
Overall, charter school students are faring better than they were four years ago, surpassing those in...
June 24th, 2013
Written by Jeff Martin - A... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - As the U.S. military's first black aviators, the Tuskegee Airmen faced a double challenge of flying in the dangerous skies during World War II, and fighting an internal war against the prejudice of their racial groups waged by allies both at home and overseas.
Now some of the airmen's members have now undertaken another mission: helping high school students rise above obstacles in...
June 24th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
It looks like two upstate New York men won't make it to this year's National Knights Party Labor Day weekend bash in Arkansas.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, a Ku Klux Klan member, and Eric J. Feight, 54, arraigned on June 19 in Albany, N.Y., for plotting to build a "mobile, remotely operated, radiation emitting device capable of killing targeted individuals silently with lethal doses of X-ray...
June 21st, 2013
Written by Russ Bynum - As... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Celebrity cook Paula Deen said while being questioned in a discrimination lawsuit that she has used racial slurs in the past but insisted she and her family do not tolerate prejudice.
The 66-year-old Food Network star and Savannah restaurant owner was peppered with questions about her racial attitudes in a May 17 deposition by a lawyer for Lisa Jackson, a former manager of...
June 21st, 2013
Written by Stacy A. Anders... in Spotlight, American, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wearing gold-sequined Ugg boots, a bright smile, and flawless brown skin that belies her 82 years, Faith Ringgold explains her "confrontational art" - vivid paintings whose themes of race and racism, gender, class, and civil rights were so intense that for years, no one would buy them.
"I didn't want people to be able to look, and look away, because a lot of people do that with...