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by The News on August 7 2008, 7:25AM
Judge Dismissal Shows Progress in the Jena 6 Case District Judge Thomas Yeager has taken over the Jena 6 case after original District Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. made some bias calls regarding the case. He had made “appearance of impropriety”…
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Ethiopia Suffers New Food Crisis; Bill Clinton Speaks at International AIDS Conference
by The News on August 5 2008, 7:15AM
Food Crisis in Ethiopia Drought, increase in food price, and an unstable economy have put Ethiopia in a new starvation period. This “Green Period” consists of an increase in agriculture production but a decrease of food consumption by Ethiopians who…
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Paid Sick Leave for California Workers; Television Ads Go Too Far in 2008 Campaign
by The News on July 31 2008, 7:19AM
Bill would require paid sick days for most Modeled after San Francisco’s paid sick leave plan implemented last year, AB2716 sponsored by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, would provide paid sick leave for the nearly 5.4 million workers who go…
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Better US AIDS plan for black Americans; more Asians to the ballot box in ‘08
by The News on July 30 2008, 7:43AM
Catholic coalition angry over ICE raids The Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network harshly criticized ICE’s current election-year efforts, which have repeatedly separated nursing mothers from their babies. Assistance Secrety of Homeland Security, Julie L….
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by The News on July 29 2008, 7:05AM
Navanethem Pillay, Who Once Represented Nelson Mandela in Court, Has Become The New United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navanethem Pillay has gone from representing Nelson Mandela in court, to being the first non-white woman appointed in South Africa’s High Court,…
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by Jonathan Adams on July 25 2008, 7:58AM
Study Shows Racial Profiling in Illinois Traffic Stops “Civil rights groups called Thursday for ending the state police practice of searching vehicles during routine traffic stops, citing new statistics that show Black and Latino motorists are searched more often even…
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Saggy Pants a Crime, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Questioned
by The News on July 24 2008, 8:27AM
Saggy Pants a Crime in Michigan A new questionable anti-saggy pants policy has been installed in the city of Flint. Considered indecent exposure, this misdemeanor is punishable by 93 days to a year in jail and fines up to $500….
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Brits: Not Just Soldiers Hurt by War; Aussies: Immigrants Cause Global Warming
by The News on July 23 2008, 7:12AM
British city council refuses donation to servicemen Members of the Portsmouth City Council refused to donate the requested £500 to Help the Heroes, a UK-based charity for wounded servicemen. In an official rejection letter, the council stated that it feared…
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Zimbabwe May Find Stability; Schools Struggle With Race vs. Class Based Integration
by The News on July 22 2008, 6:59AM
Schools Look for Solutions One Year After Supreme Court Ruling Last June, the Supreme Court ruled racial integration efforts in the school districts of Seattle and Louisville to be unconstitutional. Now, many school districts are faced with the dilemma of…
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Cops Say No Racism Despite N-word; Summits Call for More Cooperation
by The News on July 21 2008, 7:27AM
CNN to air “Black in America” doc Citing the emergence of a “new paradigm,” CNN CEO Dick Parsons announces the premiere of the network’s second documentary about black life in the United States. The two-part series airs July 23rd and…
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Actors Assaulted by Lousiana Police; HIV Travel Ban Repealed
by The News on July 18 2008, 7:34AM
US Senate Repeals HIV Travel Ban The Senate on Wednesday, July 16 voted to repeal the HIV travel ban on an 80-16 vote. The provision to repeal the U.S. travel and immigration restrictions on persons who are HIV-positive that had…
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New Tracking System for California Students; Racist Groups Recruit From Military
by The News on July 17 2008, 11:09AM
California Creates System to Track High School Dropout Rate More surprised by the number of Black and Latino students who don’t graduate high school than the many California activists that work on the issue, California’s public schools will soon give…
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Scott Stringer protects white part of downtown NYC; Feds arrest immigrants in RI courthouse raids
by The News on July 16 2008, 7:30AM
ICE Raids Providence Courthouses Dozens were arrested yesterday in several raids across six Providence courthouses. Since RI Governor Don Carcieri issued an executive order cracking down on illegal immigration in the state, protest has sparked an intense debate about immigration…
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Darfur’s Genocide Taken to Court; Obama, McCain Speak to NAACP and NCLR
by The News on July 15 2008, 7:57AM
Religious Rally for Iowa Immigrants After the immigration raid in Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville on May 12, many Jewish and Catholic groups from Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota are planning a rally in support of those detained in…
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NYT Video: Interpreter Speaks Out
by Jonathan Adams on July 11 2008, 9:46AM
Check out the video of Erik Camayd-Freixas, an interpreter, speaks about the proceedings against illegal immigrants arrested at a meatpacking plant in Iowa….
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Immigrants’ Interpreter Speaks Out; Sharpton Cancels Sean Bell Protests at Yankee Stadium
by The News on July 11 2008, 9:13AM
Interpreter: Arrested Immigrants Didn’t Understand Rights “In a 14-page essay he circulated among two dozen other interpreters who worked here, Professor Camayd-Freixas wrote that the immigrant defendants whose words he translated, most of them villagers from Guatemala, did not fully…
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Jesse Jackson Apologizes to Obama; Gentrification Pushing Historic Drummers Out of Harlem
by The News on July 10 2008, 6:58AM
African Drummers Not Accepted in Harlem Anymore Though a group of African drummers has been playing in Marcus Garvey Park since the 1960s, complaints about them have risen in recent years. Majority of the complaints come from the new residents…
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DA Charges Sharpton for Protesting Sean Bell; Affirmative Action threatened in Colorado
by The News on July 9 2008, 7:30AM
Deval Patrick to Reform MA Child Welfare System Governor Patrick (D-Massachusetts) signed an executive order to establish an office of the Child Advocate that will set penalties for child advocates who neglect to report child abuse and that will offer…
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Forty Years After Fist-Raised Protest, Runners Disagree; New British Guide to Check Nursery Racism
by The News on July 8 2008, 7:10AM
Law Students Find New Interest in Immigration Law “The momentum is partly driven by a high-profile, rancorous immigration debate. But it is also the result of an era of mass immigration that has fueled demand from foreigners and businesses seeking…
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Beyond Terrorists?: Cabinet Expands Fingerprinting
by The News on July 7 2008, 7:22AM
Bush Signs Presidential Directive for Cabinet Officials to Expand Biometric Database Since 2001, the FBI and CIA have detained and fingerprinted untold numbers of people overseas, focused on building “the world’s largest database of known or suspected terrorist fingerprints.” Now,…
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