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Racial disparity: All active ethics probes focus on black lawmakers

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By John Bresnahan - Nov. 03 (News Report) - The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers — more than 15 percent of the total in the House. And an eighth black member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), would be under investigation if the Justice Department hadn’t asked the committee to stand down. Not a single white lawmaker is currently the subject of a full-scale ethics committee probe.

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Little “Obama Effect” on Views About Race Relations

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Frank Newport - Oct. 29 (Poll) - A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America's race-relations problem will eventually be worked out -- a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall's historic election of Barack Obama as president.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaki

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 25 (News Report) - Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaking English

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said this afternoon that his officers have written at least 39 citations to people over the past three years for not speaking English

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Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mary Foster - Oct. 16 (News) - A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

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La. interracial marriage: Is life tougher for biracial kids?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - Researchers are finding that multiracial kids can sometimes be better socially adjusted than single-race offspring. And with the high-profile success of multiracial progeny such as Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, and President Obama (who at his first press conference as president described himself as a "mutt"), stereotypes about the split world of the "tragic mulatto" have long fallen by the wayside.

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Birth of a Notion: Implicit Social Cognition and the "Birther" Movement

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Steve Mirsky - Oct. 01 (News Report) - A black president, however, causes great cognitive dissonance in some. But members of the “birther” movement have found a clever solution: Obama isn’t really president! Because he wasn’t really born in the USA!

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Jimmy Carter: Wilson's Outburst 'Based On Racism' (VIDEO)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Sep. 16 (News Report) - "I think it's based on racism," Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders. "Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care," he said. "It's deeper than that." Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/jimmy-carter-wilsons-outb_n_288003.html

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Fox News host sparks outrage

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Sep. 02 (News Analysis) - If the White House is trying to figure how it lost control of the debate over healthcare in August, it could take a look at Glenn Beck’s television and radio ratings. The conservative talk radio host, who also has an hourly slot on Fox News every day, has seen his viewer numbers soar even as opponents have pressed companies to withdraw advertising from the show.

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FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A notorious New Jersey hate blogger was an FBI "agent provocateur," paid tens of thousands of dollars for years to spew rhetoric, his lawyers says. Now the government has turned the tables on Hal Turner, charging that his online rants amounted to an invitation to kill judges and ...

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Advertising - Companies Remove Ads From Beck Program on Fox News - NYTimes.com

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Aug. 14 (News) - mediabistro.comHost Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama RemarkNew York TimesABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after he said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. ...Fox News' "Glenn Beck" loses advertisersReutersGlenn Beck hemorrhaging advertisers after calling Obama “racist”Examiner.comGlenn Beck Loses Advertisers After Calling Obama RacistSeattle Post IntelligencerFOXNews?-AlterNet?-Human Eventsall 75 news articles??

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New Facebook iPhone App ’Pretty Much Done’

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By MG Siegler - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over.

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Uighur leader says 10,000 went missing in one night

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Chisa Fujioka - Jul. 30 (News Report) - "The nearly 10,000 (Uighur) people who were at the protest, they disappeared from Urumqi in one night," Kadeer told a news conference in Tokyo through an interpreter. "If they are dead, where are their bodies? If they are detained, where are they?"

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U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Tyche Hendricks - Jul. 27 (News Report) - The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months

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Gates's liberal college town no stranger to racial dust-ups

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Jul. 23 (News Report) - Prominent allegations of racism have been made in the recent past at Harvard and MIT – the two storied universities in Cambridge, Mass.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested. Seriously, Cambridge?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carolyn Kellogg - Jul. 21 (Breaking News) - Preeminent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who holds one of 20 elite professorship at Harvard University and has hosted several PBS television programs was arrested in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday at his home. According to an Associated Press report,

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America's white men are back and raging

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Tony Allen-Mills - Jul. 19 (News) - The caller introduced herself as Cathy from Massachusetts. She had a couple of modest points to make about the benefits of a national health service but Glenn Beck, one of America’s most ferocious right-wing broadcasters, was in no mood for a discussion about “socialist medicine”. “Cathy, get off my phone,” he yelled, his voice rising several octaves. “Get off my phone, you little pinhead. Get off my phone . . . I’m losing my mind today.”

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Black Philadelphia police sue over message board, say it's racist - CNN.com

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Jason Kessler - Jul. 17 (News Report) - A group of black Philadelphia police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against their department, alleging an online forum geared toward city police is "infested with racist, white supremacist and anti-African-American content." The suit alleges white officers post on and moderate the privately operated site, Domelights.com, both on and off the job.

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Va. newspaper regrets backing segregation - Race & ethnicity- msnbc.com

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 17 (News Report) - RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia newspaper expressed regret Thursday for supporting a systematic campaign by the state's white political leaders to maintain separate public schools for blacks and whites in the 1950s

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Obama: Slavery's past should be taught He says past cruelty should be connected to current events

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 14 (News Report) - President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region

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Racial Tensions High After Riots In Western China

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Anthony Kuhn - Jul. 08 (News Report) - Hundreds of majority Han Chinese, many of them armed, roamed the streets Tuesday in China's far western city of Urumqi in the aftermath of ethnic violence between Han and minority Uighurs that killed at least 156 people.

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In Wake of Turmoil In China, Minorities Face Painful Options

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ariana Eunjung Cha - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - Many Abandoning Lives They Loved

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Africa | Nigaz name sparks racism debate

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz.

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Racial profiling of minorities persists in U.S.: ACLU

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Matthew Bigg - Jun. 30 (News Analysis) - An ACLU report said racial profiling was often applied to immigrants from South Asia and to North Africans suspected of being Islamic militants following the September 11, 2001, attacks carried out by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda militants.

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The history behind Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court case that will decide who gets the good jobs in cities across America.

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Nicole Allan, Emily Bazelon - Jun. 29 (News Analysis) - This week or next, the Supreme Court will decide the year's big case about race and opportunity. The case, concerning the hiring practices of New Haven, Conn.'s firefighters, is of national interest for two reasons. The first is that it's likely to play a prominent role in Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings later this summer. (Sotomayor ruled on the case when it was before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.) The second is that New Haven's hiring dilemmas are also vexing cities throughout the United States as they try to find ways of hiring and promoting city employees that are both fair and legal. The ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano could affect how cities all over the country decide who gets good jobs in everything from fire departments to police work to trash collection. If the court really goes far, the decision could even affect private employers.

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