Feature Stories: Articles on Racial Profiling, Immigration Today
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December 20th, 2012
Written by Charles Wilson - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana never spent millions of dollars the federal government provided to help make sure the children of migrant workers get a good education, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education.
The federal government awarded the state a total of about $12 million for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, but the Indiana Department of Education didn't claim the grants, the...
December 19th, 2012
Written by Seanna Adcox - Associated Press in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate on Monday, making him the South's first black Republican senator since Reconstruction in a state whose politics is steeped in the history of slavery and Civil War.
"It speaks to the evolution of South Carolina and our nation," Scott, 47, said of his appointment to fill the seat vacated by Sen. Jim DeMint, a...
December 17th, 2012
Written by Max Seddon - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
MOSCOW (AP) - Fans of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg are calling for non-white and gay players to be excluded from the team, another sign of the racism that is plaguing the country that will host the World Cup in 2018.
Landscrona, the largest Zenit supporters' club, released a manifesto Monday demanding the club field an all-white, heterosexual team. It added that "dark-...
December 14th, 2012
Written by Jacques Billeaud - Associated in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has dismissed an Arizona sheriff's office from a lawsuit alleging the agency carried out a pattern of discrimination against Latinos in its immigration patrols but rejected a request to dismiss Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from the case.
The ruling filed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver marks a net loss for Arpaio and means the U.S. Justice Department's...
December 13th, 2012
Written by Steve Szkotak - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night of President Barack Obama's re-election, the school said Thursday.
They were among approximately 40 students who gathered outside the Minority Student Union at Hampden-Sydney College on the night of Nov. 6 within minutes after...
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