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Fired For Word ‘Negro'? Bronx Spanish Teacher Files Lawsuit
Madrid :: Spain | 1 day ago
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Fired for word negro'? A Spanish teacher in the Bronx said she was fired for using the word Negro in class. Petrona Smith, a 65-year-old junior high school teacher at P.S. Negro but she said she was using the Spanish word for the color black,
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South Dakota tries to change "Negro" and "squaw" place-names
Date :: Japan | 25 days ago
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South Dakota is finding it difficult to change time-worn names of locations that are seen as offensive by African-Americans and Native Americans, such as "Negro" and "squaw" creeks, canyons and mountain ridges. The state issued a plea this month for
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VIDEO: 'N-word' sparks censorship debate
Berlin :: Germany | 2 months ago
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N-word' sparks German literary censorship debate 16 March 2013 Last updated at 05:20 ET A publisher in Germany is to remove the offensive 'n-word' from one of its children's books, following a complaint from a parent. Die Kleine Hexe (The Little
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The many shades of meaning in 'Negro'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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His discomfort with "Negro" reflects the sort of public sentiment that led the Census Bureau to remove the word from its list of labels Americans can use to describe themselves. Census officials consider it an artifact, outmoded and potentially
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Long live 'Negro'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Before that, I was either Negro or colored depending on whether I was at home in Cleveland or visiting my grandparents in Alabama. But census officials said they are eliminating "Negro" after 100 years because some black Americans consider the term
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Merlene Davis: U.S Census quits using 'Negro' and it's about time
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Syndicated columnist When I was born my mother named me Merlene, a compilation of her middle name, Merle, and an ending that must have sounded good at the time. As I grew older and entered school, I realized some folks simply could not pronounce my
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Census Bureau drops 'Negro' for blacks or African-Americans
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
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The Census Bureau is finally dropping its century-old reference to black Americans as Negros, and adopting more modern-day lingo black or African American. The change goes into effect next year, The Associated Press reports. That's when the next
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US stopping use of term 'Negro' for census surveys
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
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After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word Negro'' to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern
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Civil Rights Epic 'The Good Negro' Brings Powerful Performances to Hudson Theatre
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Set in 1962, Wilson's script imagines a socio-political battle between civil rights leaders and the CIA to capture the hearts and minds of Alabama's citizens. Although fictional, the narrative is very realistic in tone and draws obvious parallels to
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'I Have A Dream' Speech Full Transcript: Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s Memorable 1963 Speech On MLK Day
Jackson :: MS :: USA | 4 months ago
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Wikimedia Commons) Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his memorable "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C...Delivered August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the I Have a Dream speech
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