Setting it Straight: Race and Racism, Minority Groups
Reaching back in time to discover and shine a light on events and peoples whose roles in shaping history may be unknown, misunderstood, or misrepresented.
January 23rd, 2013
Written by Dennis Junius - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 6 in 10 Americans now favor allowing illegal immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens, a major increase in support driven by a turnaround in Republicans' opinions after the 2012 elections.
The finding, in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, comes as the Republican Party seeks to increase its meager support among Latino voters, who turned out in large numbers to help-...
January 14th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
With influenza flooding the news recently, it seems timely to recall another deadly disease and the woman who helped defeat it but gave her life in the attempt.
When it struck a port city, the highly contagious, yellow fever, known as "Yellow Jack," a yellow quarantine flag was flown alerting incoming ships to avoid the area at all costs. The Spanish called it el vomito negro (the black vomit),...
January 9th, 2013
Written by knussberger in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin school district has refused to get rid of its Indian nickname and logo despite a court ruling supporting a state order to drop it.
Legislators passed a law in 2010 giving the state Department of Public Instruction the authority to force schools to drop race-based nicknames, logos and mascots if a complaint was filed and the agency found the names or images were...
January 3rd, 2013
Written by Martha Waggoner - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue issued pardons Monday to the Wilmington 10, a group wrongly convicted 40 years ago in a notorious Civil Rights-era prosecution that led to accusations that the state was holding political prisoners.
Perdue issued pardons of innocence Monday for the nine black men and one white woman who received prison sentences totaling nearly 300...
December 17th, 2012
Written by Sean Murphy - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Descendants of slaves owned by members of the Cherokee Nation can sue the current chief in an attempt to restore their tribal memberships, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a lower court's ruling that the case could not proceed because the tribe was not a defendant in the case and couldn't be compelled to...
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