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Judge Edith Jones accused of racial bias
Judge Edith Jones, 5th US Circuit Court, is facing a 12-page civil rights complaint. The complaint states that Jones has a bias against minorities in her court. The complaint is based on comments she made in her February lecture to
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Walter E. Williams Column: An Honest Examination of Race
Cleveland :: AL :: USA | 1 month ago
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One definition given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; it might also be a definition of stupidity. Let's look at some cities where large percentages of black Americans live under poor conditions.
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Azam detention racial: Shivpal to Obama
Mumbai :: India | 1 month ago
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Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Yadav has written to US President Barack Obama, saying that the detention of his cabinet colleague Azam Khan at Logan International Airport, Boston, reflects racial discrimination in the US and has lowered the image of
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Canada indicted by China, Russia, Iran at UN rights review
Toronto :: Canada | 1 month ago
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April 26, 2013 Today's UN quadrennial review of Canada's human rights record quickly turned into a spectacle of hypocrisy and farce when the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un took the floor to accuse the country of torture and other ill-treatment,
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Walter E. Williams Column: Black Unemployment
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
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A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent." Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans
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Disneyland's 'Donald Duck' accused of racial discrimination by black family
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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According to attorney Dan Gilleon, the lawyer for the family, the actor playing Donald Duck ignored the woman's, Nastasia White, children Razzi and Ryder and instead played with white children, in a blatant brush-off, New York Daily News reports.
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Dick Meister: The pioneering black porters
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com , which includes more than 350 of his columns. It's Black History Month, a good time to honor the Brotherhood of Sleeping
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Google searches 'expose racial bias'
New York :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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Google searches expose racial bias, says study of names Prof Sweeney said technology could be used to counteract racial intolerance A study of Google searches has found "significant discrimination" in results depending on the perceived race of names
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U.S. Supreme Court will hear Shelby County's voting rights case on Feb. 27
Pelham :: AL :: USA | 5 months ago
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Supreme Court will hear arguments on Feb. 27 in Shelby County government's attempt to declare parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, carrying with it questions of whether racial discrimination continues to warrant their necessity.
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Texas inmate will be first woman executed in US in more than two years
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 5 months ago
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New York Kimberly McCarthy will be put to death by lethal injection. She was found guilty of murdering her white neighbour in 1998. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP Defence lawyers in Dallas County, Texas are scrambling to save the life of a death row
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