April 15th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in National Collegiate Dialogue with 35 Comments
Police Target Black And Latino Marijuana Users
New York City (NYC,) recently dubbed “the marijuana arrest capital of the world” boasts over a million hours of police work devoted to 440,000 pot possession arrests over the past 11 years. Although most of these arrests were low-level misdemeanors, police appear justified in using their valuable time to arrest, process, and prosecute weed smokers...
April 8th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in National Collegiate Dialogue with 33 Comments
Affirmative Action practices and policies when it comes to college and university admissions are important cases before the Supreme Court this year. The Court hopes to deliver a decision this spring regarding the affirmative action case brought against the University of Texas, which challenges the University’s affirmative action practices. Just last week the Court heard a Michigan affirmative...
April 8th, 2013
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
This week’s segment is an interview with Emcee and community activist Jasiri X, who is...
April 1st, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 13 Comments
Editor’s Note: The disparities between minorities in urban neighborhoods and whites in suburban neighborhoods are highlighted time, and time again; for decades in one report or the other, by one politician or the other, numerous community activists, and human and civil rights leaders. The most recent attention is the article about “urban apartheid” conditions in New Haven, Connecticut as reported...
April 1st, 2013
Written by Robert H. Reid - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
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...
