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Suit accuses Compton school district of abuse, racial profiling
A group of parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police. One family alleged that school police targeted a student's father for arrest...
Tags: Police Arrests, Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Prosecution, Apple iPod
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Emergency Incidents, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Media Industry, Mardi Gras
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The Big Uneasy
The lavish Carnival banquets already are under way at Antoine's Restaurant, the parading clubs are finalizing their ornate processions and the reviewing stands are in place along St. Charles Avenue. Everything, in other words, looks to be ready for the...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Culture, NAACP
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UC Irvine student finds racist note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Slavery, Students, Teaching and Learning, University of California, Irvine
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UC Irvine fraternity suspends itself for releasing blackface video
A UC Irvine fraternity has volunteered to suspend itself after it was blasted for a member-produced video that featured a student in blackface. Lambda Theta Delta announced Wednesday that it would cancel all major events and stop operating as a UCI-...
Tags: Halloween, Social Issues, University of California, Irvine
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UPDATED: Martinsville City Council decides to display a controversial quilt
WDBJ7 ReporterMartinsville City Council will display a quilt that's been the center of a heated racial debate. Tuesday night's meeting was the city's first full council meeting since this whole thing started. More than a dozen people spoke either for or against...Tags: Martinsville (Martinsville, Virginia), NAACP, Students, Teaching and Learning, Executive Branch
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...Tags: Washington, DC, Civil Rights, Public Housing, Chicago Housing Authority, Condos and Houses
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A LOOK BACK
May 12, 1958: The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD). May 13, 1963: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a...Tags: Punishment, Judaism, Religion and Belief, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
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Soccer-Italian football culture "backward" says Milan coach
ReutersMay 12 (Reuters) - AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri condemned Italian soccer culture as backward on Sunday after his team's match at home against AS Roma was interrupted by racist chanting from fans. Allegri also criticised the interruption, during...Tags: Social Issues, Soccer, Sports
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Album review: Tone deaf moments mar Kenny Chesney's 'Life on a Rock'
Is a reductive engagement with social issues worse than no engagement at all? That was the question raised last month by "Accidental Racist," Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's astonishingly simple-minded meditation on American race relations. Many critics...
Tags: Music, Brad Paisley, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports, Entertainment
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Soccer-Blatter 'appalled' by racism at Milan-Roma game
ReutersMay 13 (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter was "appalled" by racist jeering directed at AC Milan's Mario Balotelli during their Serie A match against AS Roma, he said on Monday. The game was stopped early in the second half at the San Siro on...Tags: Social Issues
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UCI student finds note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Slavery, Teaching and Learning, Students, University of California, Irvine
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