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.
November 17th, 2012
Written by Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
MOSCOW (AP) — In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook the fact that their family lived outside the area where Jews were allowed to live.
Then came the Bolshevik Revolution and Zimanenko became a good Communist, raising her own son to believe in ideals that strove to stamp out...
November 15th, 2012
Written by Ivan Moreno - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
November 14th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Mayor George Schloegel (SHLAY' guhl) took the opportunity of the Veterans Day holiday to apologize to families of African-American members of the U.S. military who weren't allowed to be buried in the city cemetery during times of segregation decades ago.
Schloegel appeared at a Veterans Day service in downtown Gulfport on Monday. The SunHerald reports that he honored three...
October 31st, 2012
Written by Phillip Rawls - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Segregation ended decades ago in Alabama, swept away by the civil rights marchers who faced down police dogs and fire hoses in the early '60s. But segregation is still mandated by the state's constitution, and voters on Nov. 6 will get only their second chance in years to eliminate an anachronism that still exists on paper.
Election Day in this Deep South state could be...
October 30th, 2012
Written by Ryan J. Foley - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them to prison for 25 years: that detectives framed them to solve a high-profile case.
During a civil trial that starts Wednesday in Des Moines, Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee will argue that Council Bluffs police officers...
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