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Latinos, blacks take harder hit amid recession
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 day ago
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State officials say that unemployment rates for minority groups are higher than the overall rate, but say the sample sizes are too small to calculate specific numbers. “We’re in such a state that we need to think about emergency measures to prevent us...
Tags: civil rights, unemployment rate, white housing, Massachusetts Communities Action Network, White House, Congressional Black Caucus, jobs summit, communities activists, Latinos, Boston, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Works Progress Administration, Types of unemployment, Puerto Ricans in the United States, Labor economics, Unemployment, Janet Murguￃﾭa, Social Issues, Politics, Labor
FBI seeks answers in Civil Rights-era killings
Ferriday :: LA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The FBI’s Civil Rights-era Cold Case Initiative is investigating 108 unsolved civil rights slayings. At a screening Wednesday night of a documentary by Baker native and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Keith Beauchamp at Southern University, the federal agency...
Tags: FBI, civil rights, Ferriday
Philosophies clash in plans for gang intervention academy
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 days ago
Credibility A city-sponsored training academy for gang intervention workers will open at least a year later than Los Angeles officials had hoped after a collision of philosophies and egos -- a hitch in the city's effort to modernize its campaign against street violence.
Tags: Aquil Basheer, gangs intervention, advanced project, intervention workers, South L.A, civil rights, City Council, law enforcement, Iraq, Baghdad, Gangs, Sociology, Urban decay, Criminology, Crime, Gang
Precious director may march to Selma
Selma :: AL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility It is the Alabama town forever associated with the civil rights struggle after state troopers clubbed and tear-gassed activists as they tried to march on the state capital, Montgomery, 54 miles away. Now the story of the historic marches from Selma in...
Tags: Selma, voting rights, Montgomery, Alabama, civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr., LaRouche movement, Selma to Montgomery marches, Montgomery Alabama, 1965, Selma Alabama, Community organizing, Dallas County Alabama, Politics
Video Addresses 'Growing Concerns About Racial, Ethnic and Language Disparities in Health Care'
Alexandria :: IN :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The nation's physicians must concern themselves not only with their patients' health, but also with their patients' "language access." Qualified interpreters must be provided for patients who are deaf/hard of hearing and for those who do not speak English.
Tags: health careful, careful organization, The Joint Commission, careful provider, The Joint Commission, civil rights, language accessible, family member, language disparities, growing concerns, Alexandria, Quality assurance, Health care, Medical ethics, Health disparities, Health care in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Accreditation, Joint Commission, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Conviction of Sheik’s Lawyer on Terrorism Charges Is Upheld
Cairo :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Stewart , the outspoken defense lawyer who was found guilty in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling information from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt. The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second...
Tags: Lynne Stewart Responds, civil rights, Minnesota, appeal court, federal appeal, attorney lynne, rights attorney, begin serving, Cairo, Lynne Stewart, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Law Crime, Politics, John G. Koeltl, Mohamed Yousry, Hazelden Foundation, New York City landmark bomb plot, War Conflict
Noteworthy Senate debates throughout U.S. history
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 days ago
Credibility The Senate is about to embark on what could be the showdown of the year as top Democrats work to push through sweeping health care legislation. The legislative chamber, however, is no stranger to history-changing debate. Lawmakers need to look no further...
Tags: Modern United States Senate, Library of Congress, Andrew Johnson, civil rights, Woodrow Wilson, foreign policy, Donald Ritchie, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, rights act, Burdett Loomis, Iraq, Baghdad, Parliamentary procedure, United States Senate, Radical Republicans, Filibuster, Reconstruction, Scots-Irish Americans, Vice Presidents of the United States, Politics
NAACP backs education over getting rich quick
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility America's largest civil rights organization, celebrated two milestones; its 100th anniversary and the election of the nation's first African-American president. At the national level, the organization is taking on new energy under the leadership of its...
Tags: NAACP, Evansville Branch, Downtown Evansville, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp, Gerald Arnold, Andrew Mickens, president obama, getting rich, civil rights, 100th anniversary, Evansville, Politics, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Evansville Indiana, Barack Obama, Social Issues
Civil rights groups protest at Taos hotel
Taos :: NM :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Members of several civil rights groups are protesting in front of a Taos hotel where Hispanic employees have clashed with the new owner. Whitten Inn owner Larry Whitten forbade employees to speak Spanish and ordered some to Anglicize their Hispanic names...
Tags: Larry Whitten, Taos, civil rights, rights groups, taos hotel, Hospitality Recreation, Civil disobedience, Protests, Religion Belief, Social Issues
Mormon Endorsement of Gay Rights
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Well, there was a small step in Salt Lake City, Utah yesterday where the Mormon church announced its full support of the gay rights legislation which would ban housing and employment...
Tags: gay rights, gay, homosexual, christianity, salt lake city, utah, mormon, churche of jesus christ of latter-day saints, rights, civil rights, discrimination, marriage, housing, workplace, employement, Palm Springs, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Homosexuality and Mormonism, Homophobia, Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ex-gay, Egalitarianism, Religion Belief, LGBT history, Social Issues, LGBT social movements, Labor, allnews, Michael Otterson
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