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 7th, 2012
Written by Holly Beretto in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
8635.jpg?itok=qNxLjWQF "Mac McDonald, a rare but determined black man who tends his vineyard to create the wine of his childhood memories. Photo Credit: Holly Beretto.")
Mac McDonald didn’t know anything about wine, but moonshine was a different story since his dad made it in the tiny town of Butler, in east Texas, where he grew up. But one day when he was about 12, one of his dad’s friends had a bottle of wine and offered young Mac a taste.It was love at first sip.“It was a red Burgundy,” he recalls. “And I’ve spent my life trying to re-create that experience.”...
May 23rd, 2012
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
The concept of debtor’s prisons today, most would consider a past uncaring practice by the criminal justice system. A practice viewed as a callous and unacceptable way to punish those incapable of paying off money owed to another. To place people in jail for being unable to pay their bills is a notion that appears heartless as well as hypocritical. The imprisoned cannot pay the bills, thus,...
May 21st, 2012
Written by Wendy Innes in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
Perhaps no group of people has a higher list of stereotypes than those who call the Appalachian Mountains home. When many people think of the Appalachian Mountain people, what normally comes to mind is Snuffy Smith smoking a corncob pipe, wearing overalls, and being lazy. Many of the stereotypes that people think of today originate from a single publication called "A Strange Land and Peculiar...
April 16th, 2012
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
At the Women in the World Summit, held in New York City in March, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee asked why American women were not more concerned about men’s role in discussions of reproductive issues. She asserted, “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde posited that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, the tragedy of...
April 10th, 2012
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
The numbers of minorities incarcerated compared to whites allows many to concede to stereotypical views that minorities are inherently more violent than whites. The Center for Health & Justice finds that the incarceration rates for African American males is seven times higher, and Hispanics are 2.5 times higher than white males. With such definitive statistics detailing the prevalence of...
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