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 21st, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
“I mean, how often do you witness a miracle?” one of my friends, an English as a Second Language teacher in New Jersey asked me when I mentioned I’d been asked to write a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.What, I pondered, was I supposed to say?Until USARiseUp mentioned the story to me, I hadn’t been sitting in the corner of my sofa, looking up occasionally from my book, my glass of...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Jane Mersky Leder in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Nothing could have prepared then high school juniors Tyjuan Morrow and Richie Gallant for the eye-opening experience of visiting each other’s school. Morrow, who is black and lived in the projects with his mother and two of six siblings, attended one of the lowest-performing public schools in St. Louis. Gallant, white and Jewish, lived in a comfortable suburb with his parents and younger brother...
March 17th, 2010
Written by Christine Orchanian Adler in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, I knew I was a mutt – a mix of cultures encompassing countries in Europe and the Near East. However, some of my strongest memories are of my relatives’ pride in their Irish heritage: Their strong work ethic, large families and deep faith. My mother would tell stories about how she and her seven brothers and sisters lived in a cold-water flat...
March 10th, 2010
Written by Mary Annette Pember in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Thoughts of my mother are always bittersweet. In recent years however, the bitterness has grown into hope. It is not an easy hope, covered in thorns as it is, but hope nonetheless. In my younger days, I was derailed for years by my deep sense of personal injustice. She was not the loving mother I deserved to have.She was often cold and harsh, self absorbed and quick-tempered; she was never like...
February 23rd, 2010
Written by Tim Glanfield in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
For some, Britain is a glowing example of multiculturalism that continues to embrace cultures and races from across the globe.For others, it is a fallen giant of a bygone colonial age, lacking direction, and struggling to retain an identity as the very notion of “Britishness” remains diluted.It is against this confused and at times volatile background that more than sixty million Britons live,...
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