Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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October 16th, 2012
Written by Peter James Spielmann - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Thursday he is as committed to abolishing child marriage around the globe as he was to fighting apartheid in South Africa. Tutu made his remarks at the launch of U.N. campaign to end child marriage by 2030, in a bid to free girls from poverty, ignorance, and oppression at the hands of their husbands.
The U.N. Population Fund says about...
October 12th, 2012
Written by Anonymous in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah who was crippled by a bullet that pierced his spine during the civil war.
Yet as the Afghan war began its 12th year on Sunday, Oct. 7, fears loom that the country will again fracture along ethnic lines once international...
October 3rd, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — A two-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice has found that a sheriff in the U.S. state of North Carolina and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos by making unwarranted arrests with the intent of maximizing deportations.
In an 11-page report issued Tuesday, the federal agency said Sheriff Terry S. Johnson and his deputies violated the...
September 10th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
On August 6, 2012, President Obama signed the “Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012.” The new law offers extended care to service members based at Camp Lejeune when contaminated water caused major medical issues, and the law prohibits protests at military funerals in the two hours immediately prior to a funeral.
However, a missing factor was the mention of...
August 28th, 2012
Written by Manny Otiko in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Historically prominent in the fields of academia and technology; Asian Americans are now making waves in the political arena.
Just recently, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was named as one of the front-runners for the Republican vice presidential nomination, but the position eventually went to Rep. Paul Ryan. Jindal is the child of Punjabi immigrants who settled in Louisiana and a former...
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