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.
April 8th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
A bi-partisan immigration bill is expected to emerge from the U.S. Senate. A vigorous debate over the flawed U.S. immigration system begins in earnest this week as senators finalize a bipartisan bill to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country, and grant eventual citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.
Some senators on the bi-...
April 8th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
On Mar. 6, ACLU affiliates in 23 states filed over 255 public records requests with law enforcement agencies to establish the extent to which federal funding fuels the militarization of state and local police departments — particularly SWAT teams."Equipping state and local law enforcement with military weapons and vehicles, military tactical training, and actual military assistance to conduct...
April 4th, 2013
Written by Christy Lemire - AP Movie Writer in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It's early in the 1947 season. Each time the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman comes up to bat, manager Ben Chapman emerges from the dugout, stands on the field, and taunts him with increasingly...
April 2nd, 2013
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A farm purchased by a Richmond department store owner during World War II to shelter Jews escaping Nazi Germany has been added to the Virginia Landmarks Register.
Hyde Park in Nottoway County is among 13 additions to the register by the state Department of Historic Resources. Others include historic districts, a New Deal-era elementary school in northern Virginia, and houses...
March 29th, 2013
Written by Chris Bergeron in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) - In the turn-of-the-century postcard, the big-nosed man with a bushy moustache gazes at needy customers from behind a counter that bears the sign: "Money to loan at only 10 per cent a month."
In another, two gents in top hats warily eye a bearded, big-nosed man carrying a box that identifies him as "J. Green, Gold Brick."
A Jew and lifelong collector of vintage postcards,...
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