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Suit accuses Compton school district of abuse, racial profiling
A group of parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police. One family alleged that school police targeted a student's father for arrest...
Tags: Justice System, New Products, Students, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups
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UC Irvine student finds racist note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Slavery, University of California, Irvine, Students, Teaching and Learning
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UC Irvine fraternity suspends itself for releasing blackface video
A UC Irvine fraternity has volunteered to suspend itself after it was blasted for a member-produced video that featured a student in blackface. Lambda Theta Delta announced Wednesday that it would cancel all major events and stop operating as a UCI-...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Halloween, Social Issues
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American Front trial delayed at prosecutor's request
KISSIMMEE – White supremacist Marcus Faella must wait until late July for his day in court. Rather than go to trial Monday, the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office requested and received Monday what Circuit Judge Jon Morgan said would be the...
Tags: Osceola County, Defendants, Prisons, Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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UPDATED: Martinsville City Council decides to display a controversial quilt
WDBJ7 ReporterMartinsville City Council will display a quilt that's been the center of a heated racial debate. Tuesday night's meeting was the city's first full council meeting since this whole thing started. More than a dozen people spoke either for or against...Tags: Executive Branch, Media Industry, NAACP, Government, Regional Authority
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Welcome to Easy Rawlins' world: a Q&A with Walter Mosley
A few weeks ago, I met Walter Mosley on Pico Boulevard near Fairfax, around the corner from where he was raised. This is a neighborhood that still fuels Mosley’s imagination; it’s where his detective Easy Rawlins lives, and where a good deal...
Tags: Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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American Front leader's domestic-terrorism trial postponed
KISSIMMEE — The case against the American Front white-supremacy group, scheduled to begin in Osceola County Monday, has been postponed until July. Marcus Faella is the one remaining defendant, whose case cas not been resolved. Early Monday,...
Tags: Defendants, Osceola County, Prisons, Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Washington, DC, Rentals, Maryland General Assembly, Civil Rights
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A LOOK BACK
May 12, 1958: The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD). May 13, 1963: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a...Tags: U.S. Senate, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Religion and Belief, U.S. Supreme Court, Punishment
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Other Voices
South Dakota has become the focal point of a racial controversy that could become newsworthy on the national scene. The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hot Springs removed two Confederate flags last week after receiving complaints that the flags...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, National Government, Justice System, Veterans Affairs, Slavery
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UCI student finds note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Slavery, University of California, Irvine, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Album review: Tone deaf moments mar Kenny Chesney's 'Life on a Rock'
Is a reductive engagement with social issues worse than no engagement at all? That was the question raised last month by "Accidental Racist," Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's astonishingly simple-minded meditation on American race relations. Many critics...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Brad Paisley, Sports
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