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April 5th, 2013
Written by Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Race Relations with 1 Comment
PHOENIX (AP) — On the political map of the Southwest, Arizona stands out. Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico are independent-minded states that once leaned Republican but are trending Democratic, partly because of increasing numbers of Hispanic voters alienated from the GOP by its tough stance on illegal immigration. California, a GOP bastion for decades, is now solidly Democratic and the ultimate...
April 1st, 2013
Written by Nicholas C. Stern – The News-Post of Frederick in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Maria-Teresa D'Orazio
When Maria-Teresa D'Orazio began volunteering at St. Joseph-on-Carrollton Manor Catholic Church about 22 years ago, she noticed that none of her fellow Latinos attended Mass there. "I saw them in the supermarkets and on the streets and I started wondering, 'What is the reason?'" said D'Orazio, now 75. She met with other local Latinos and asked them why, when many had been practicing Catholics in...
March 27th, 2013
Written by Jonathan Kaminsky - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Race Relations with 0 Comments
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A Washington State Senate committee heard testimony Tuesday on legislation to make it easier for minorities to get elected to local government posts. The Washington Voting Rights Act, as supporters call it, would encourage court challenges to cities, counties, school districts, and others to push them to switch from at-large to district elections in areas where large...
March 21st, 2013
Written by Phillip Elliott - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Race Relations with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together - a practice once frowned upon - according to a review of federal education surveys. The Brookings Institution report released Monday shows a dramatic increase in both ability grouping and student tracking among fourth- and...
March 20th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Race Relations with 0 Comments
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The 64 schools in the women's NCAA basketball tournament combined to graduate 90 percent of their players. The findings are part of the annual report released Tuesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. The study also shows the gap between graduation rates of white and African-American players shrunk to 6 percentage points....

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