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.
December 6th, 2012
Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges this week in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and another man admitted he was part of a group of young whites involved in racially motivated attacks against African-Americans.
The death of James Craig Anderson, who was beaten and run over in Jackson on June 26, 2011,...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by Russell Contreras - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - From living in a top-secret city on a mesa in northern New Mexico to smuggling a suitcase packed with alcohol into a dry federal research lab in Tennessee, some of the lesser-known stories behind the nation's effort to develop the atomic bomb are now available online.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society say the "Voices of the Manhattan...
November 29th, 2012
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Tucson Unified School District plans to hold three public forums this week to gather comments on its latest plan to end federal oversight of its racial desegregation efforts.
A plan submitted to a U.S. District Court judge earlier this month focuses on balancing the racial makeup of schools, improving the hiring and retention of minority employees, and improving...
November 26th, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, has died. He was 73.
Guyot had a history of heart problems and suffered from diabetes, and died at home in Mount Rainier, Maryland, his daughter Julie Guyot-Diangone said late Saturday. She said he died sometime Thursday night...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges say they won't redraw Mississippi's legislative districts or order the state to hold a new round of elections in 2013.
The order came Monday in a lawsuit that the state chapter of the NAACP had filed earlier to challenge state House and Senate redistricting.
Legislative maps have to be updated once a decade to account for population changes, giving more...
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