Cover Stories: Diversity, Illegal Immigration & Race Articles
November 14th, 2012
Written by Mark Sherman - Associated Press in Cover Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three days after a diverse coalition of voters propelled President Barack Obama to a second term in the White House.
With a look at affirmative action in higher education already on the agenda, the court is putting a...
November 7th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Cover Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at some of President Barack Obama's promises for his second term:—Roll back Bush tax cuts for upper-income people, couples making over $250,000 and individuals making over $200,000, a failed 2008 promise. Ensure people making over $1 million pay at least 30 percent in taxes.
—Put government on a path to cutting deficits by $4 trillion over 10 years. First-term promise to...
October 2nd, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Cover Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — James Meredith is a civil-rights icon who hates the term "civil rights."
It's as if civil rights were somehow set apart from — well, rights.
“When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult," said the black man who 50 years ago inflamed the anger of white Mississippi by quietly demanding...
September 11th, 2012
Written by Russell Roberts in Cover Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Religious prejudice is, unfortunately, a part of American presidential campaigns. Thomas Jefferson suffered it. Barack Obama suffers it, and Mitt Romney, a Mormon, may well suffer it. One man who suffered it worse than most is Al Smith – the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate.
With incumbent President Calvin Coolidge declining to run for re-election in 1928, Democrats probably thought...
August 15th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Cover Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
With Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, on hand in Washington D.C., the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a study on August 8, 2012, that “takes a look into Latinos’ successes and challenges as one of the fastest-growing populations in the country.”
That report comes on the heals of CAP's Progress 2050 report released...
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