After years of standing on the sidelines watching the resegregation of American public schools, the NAACP has finally had enough. Their target is Wayne County, North Carolina, which has two districts, one all black (four white students) and poor (94%), and the other 90 percent white and economically stable . And here is the real story from the Wilmington Journal , the one that the corporate media ignores...
Calling all progressives. Nearly one year ago, in December 2008, the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission released a report that revealed "overwhelming evidence" that the state's civil union law failed to provide the same protections as marriage, and created economic, medical, and emotional hardships for gay couples. The report concluded by declaring that denying same-sex couples the...
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color line and ended racial segregation in Major League Baseball by becoming the first African-American to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Testing the Ice is a touching memoir by his daughter Sharon that begins eight years later when Robinson helped the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the New York Yankees [...]
The South Africa national football team or Bafana Bafana is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association. They returned to the world stage in 1992, after years of being banned from FIFA. Football first arrived in South Africa through colonialism in the late nineteenth century, as the game was popular among British soldiers.[1] From the earliest days
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The brutal way the police treated fellow Muslim brothers and sisters living around the mosque in Baclaran Paranaque showed really how Filipinos treat Maranaos, Maguindanaoans and Tausugs here in this country---as second or even third class citizens. I would not be surprised if this incident would spark a jihad. And jihad it will be. Long were the years the Muslims here suffered. Considered as the first...
At the Economic Policy Institute, Gregory D.Squires, Derek S. Hyra and Robert N.Renner write : While there has been widespread recognition that racial minorities are among the hardest hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, racial residential segregation has not been considered a factor behind the crisis in minority communities. Blame is being directed at ill-informed consumers, lax underwriting by loan...
by Clay Travis Filed under: Mississippi , SEC When Ole Miss hosts Tennessee Saturday, the school's band will not play "From Dixie WIth Love," a song that features an incongruous pairing of "Dixie" with the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Why? Because some students and alumni chant, "The South will rise again," at the end of the song. For Ole Miss' first-year...
Dr. Dan Jones, dean of the University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi's first-year chancellor followed through on a promise Tuesday and asked the band to stop playing a pep song because some fans are chanting "the South will rise again" at the end of the medley. "Here at the University of Mississippi, there must be no doubt that this is a warm and welcoming place for all,"...
Silky Soul Tribute by Mark Anthony Neal In a room filled with mixed-company, mention the group Frankie Beverly and Maze and watch hundreds of years of racial segregation reproduce itself right before your eyes. In a world where many whites are still coming to terms with the insular realities of black life and culture, Frankie Beverly and Maze may be one of the biggest secrets of all. Virtually unknown...
"As I began to subject the apartheid system to more careful scrutiny [during the 1960s, as an anti-apartheid activist], it seemed to me that it was a system that had more in common with a communist state than with a free capitalist society. Apartheid controlled every facet of black people’s lives from the cradle to the grave. Among other things, consistent with the policy of racial segregation,...
Ze German liberals have an idea. Not content leaving people defenceless by stripping them of gun ownership which an earlier story proved works in the hands of homeowners, more kool-aid drinking liberal numbnuts have followed up with another love-they-criminal suggestion. The reason for the high crime they say is because of the walls. Remove the physical barriers between you and the criminal savages...
(PhysOrg.com) -- New study examines impact of segregation on the prevalence of high-cost loans in U.S. metro areas. Subprime loans disproportionately located in segregated areas.
On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey,...
The South Africa national football team or Bafana Bafana is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association. They returned to the world stage in 1992, after years of being banned from FIFA. Football first arrived in South Africa through colonialism in the late nineteenth century, as the game was popular among British soldiers.[1] From the earliest days...
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