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KKK to protest ban on 'Dixie' at Ole Miss
Oxford :: MS :: USA | about 3 hours ago
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Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi say they plan to protest a decision to forbid the Ole Miss band to play "From Dixie With Love" at football games. The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan say they will demonstrate Saturday morning...
Tags: Mississippi, Oxford, Reconstruction, Dixie, Richard Greene, Entertainment Culture, Ku Klux Klan, Anti-Catholicism in the United States, Racism
Africa: Reliving Continent's Dark Past of Transatlantic Slave Trade
Nairobi :: Kenya | about 9 hours ago
Credibility Reliving Continent's Dark Past of Transatlantic Slave Trade Joy Wanja 20 November 2009 Nairobi — A quiet island carrying tales of millions of men smuggled out of the continent and into slavery four centuries ago, sits silently like a giant boat in the...
Tags: Kenya, Nairobi, Labor, Atlantic slave trade, Forced migration, Slavery, Hospitality Recreation, Racism, African slave trade, Slavery in the United States, Social Issues
The Bayswater revolutionary
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 10 hours ago
Credibility In the last years of apartheid, an unlikely group of young middle class white men sang a protest song. It became the anthem of a generation of young whites conscripted into the South African Army and ordered to fight for a regime they found they didn't...
Tags: Bright Blue, New Zealand, Auckland, South Africa under apartheid, End Conscription Campaign, Weeping, Pieter Willem Botha, Conscription, Entertainment Culture, Racial segregation, Racism, Social Issues, War Conflict
Nixing of Panthers complaint starts probe
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Frank R. Philadelphia polling place during the November 2008 presidential elections. The demand is contained in a Nov. 16 letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., referring...
Tags: Philadelphia, NBPP, Justice Department, Mr. Wolf, career lawyer, New Black Panther Party, Racism, Thomas J. Perrelli, Office of Professional Responsibility, Electoral fraud, Election fraud, Anti-Judaism, Black supremacy, Law Crime, Politics
Black teachers need support to progress in schools'
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility MP Diana Abbott says more needs to be done to support black teachers who face barriers to their progression into leadership roles. �For years black teachers have been telling me about the difficulties of getting promoted and making it to the top of their...
Tags: black teachers, Diane Abbott, Diana Abbott, United Kingdom, London, London Borough of Hackney, Racism, Institutional racism, Education, Social Issues, Labor
Man sentenced for illegal re-entry to U.S.
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Juan Castillo-Ortiz, 26, who was arrested in August, pleaded guilty to re-entry of a deported alien and was sentenced to prison by U.S...Castillo-Ortiz is a Mexican national whose criminal history includes weapons violations and felony drug charges, according...
Tags: U.S, Guadalupe Alfredo Melendez-Laine, Salt Lake City, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deportation, Racism, Sureￃﾱos, Clark Waddoups, Law Crime
Rep. Virginia Foxx Credits GOP for Civil Rights Legislation
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility On the House floor today, Rep. Virginia Foxx, a right-wing Republican from North Carolina, boasted of her party's alleged progressive history on civil rights. "Just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the '60s without very...
Tags: Virginia Foxx, San Francisco, Political parties in the United States, Southern United States, Jesse Helms, Steve Benen, Conservatism in the United States, Dixiecrats, Racism, Politics
Schoolyard racism rife, survey finds
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The Foundation for Young Australians has tried to quantify the problem of schoolyard racism, surveying 900 students from high schools across Australia. Seventy per cent of those surveyed reported suffering some form of racist abuse. "With primary schools,...
Tags: Foundation for Young Australians, schoolyard racism, Australia, Melbourne, Racism, Sociology, Discrimination, Hate, Education, Social Issues
Top female execs still rare, UC Davis study shows
Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Citing "a bleak picture of the progress of women in corporate leadership" over the last five years, the report said that women held just 10.6% of executive positions and board seats at the state's biggest companies this year, a slight decline over 2008.
Tags: Palo Alto, Racism, Socioeconomics, Chief executive officer, Business Finance, Gender studies, Employment, Glass ceiling, Corporate governance
Trial for Wal-Mart dispute in Mo. begins
Kennett :: MO :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility The trial of a young African-American woman accused of disturbing the peace at a Missouri Wal-Mart is indicative of racial bias, civil rights activists said. Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
Tags: Missouri Wal-Mart, Heather Ellis, racial bias, Kennett, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wal-Mart, Law Crime, Currie, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Al Sharpton, Civil disobedience, Rosa Parks, Boyce Watkins, Martin Luther King, Jr., Racism, Social Issues
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