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.
March 29th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
As we come to the close of commemorating the contribution of women during the month of March, it is fitting that we remember Gerty Radnitz Cori, the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
Gerty Radnitz Cori was born in an age when women were taught that their sole aim in life was to find a husband and never concentrate on a career. She turned her back on that narrow-minded, prejudicial...
March 28th, 2013
Written by Robert H. Reid - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
BERLIN (AP) - In gritty the backstreets of Berlin and other major German cities, women wearing headscarves shop for lamb and grape leaves. Old men pass the time in cafes sipping coffee, chatting in Turkish, and reading Turkish newspapers.
More than 3 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany - the legacy of West Germany's Cold War-era program to recruit temporary foreign labor during the...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Phillip Rawls - Associated Press in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
Alabama publisher, H. Brandt Ayers, in his memoir confronts Southern History head on. He addresses both the history of the region and his personal journey in his recently published memoir.
For people who think they have read plenty about the South's history over the past 70 years, Anniston Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers offers a fresh take, with his personal stories chronicling not only change...
March 22nd, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
On Feb. 21, 2013 over 200 Black LGBT celebrated in the nation's capital during the annual Black LGBT Emerging Leaders Day - an event highlighted on the White House website during African American History Month. The politics of African American opposition to gays and same-sex marriage has come a long way and the longtime assumption that blacks are against gay rights seems to be experiencing a sea...
March 22nd, 2013
Written by Jim Fitzgerald - Associated Press in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
SPRING VALLEY, New York (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.
Tension in a suburban New York school district is rooted in an unusual dynamic: The families who send their children to public schools are mostly Hispanic and African-American. The school...
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