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Payton College Prep principal says leadership problems, not 'racist tendencies,' led to North Side baseball team forfeiting game on Far South Side
A North Side Chicago Public Schools principal says internal leadership problems, not "racist tendencies," led to his baseball team forfeiting a game Saturday on the city's Far South Side. The explanation came after a series of media reports, which the...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Walter Payton, Chicago Sun-Times, Sports, Parenting
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How to update census' race question
A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this intriguing headline: "I found one drop; can I be black now?" The "one drop" is a...
Tags: Minority Groups, Advice Columns and Columnists, Population and Census, Demographics
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Sanitized society puts hygiene hypothesis to the test
Is the American body politic suffering from an autoimmune disease? The "hygiene hypothesis" is the scientific theory that the rise in asthma and other autoimmune maladies stems from the fact that babies are born into environments that are too clean. Our...
Tags: Discrimination, Autism, here! (tv network), Civil Rights, Arts and Culture
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'Racist' Mountain Dew goat ad: Badly beaten woman, black men in lineup
Pepsi has pulled a Mountain Dew ad being called history-making for its racism. The ad features a battered woman on crutches, a lineup of "thugs" and a goat with a serious temper and addiction to Mountain Dew. Dr. Boyce Watkins on the site...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Google Inc., Social Issues
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Dirt bikers no victims of racism
Really, Mr. Conaway! In his defense of dirt bike riders ("Don't penalize city kids for riding dirt bikes," April 25), Baltimore Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr. places blame for this problem on the Baltimore Police Department and their vendetta...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Frank M. Conaway, Sr., Baltimore Police Department, Social Issues
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Video: GM apologizing for this Chevy Trax ad dubbed 'racist' [UPDATE]
Autoblog.comFiled under: Budget, China, Marketing/Advertising, Crossover, Chevrolet, Canada In what can only be described as a growing trend, another automaker finds itself in trouble for an ad that critics are calling offensive. A new television and internet ad... -
Henry County teen who admitted to setting church on fire gets two years in prison
A Henry County teenager who admitted to setting a church on fire because the congregants are black was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday. Jean Claude Bridges pleaded guilty to setting the New Holy Deliverance Outreach Ministry in Axton on fire...
Tags: Crimes, Arson, Henry County, Civil Rights, Prisons
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Fraternity suspends itself after blackface video
A UC Irvine fraternity volunteered to suspend itself this week 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...
Tags: Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, University of California, Irvine, Halloween, Social Issues
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Other Voices: Confederate flags and state paying group's membership fees
Confederate flags have no place in South Dakota 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...Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Veterans Affairs
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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: Brad Paisley, Sports, Entertainment, Music, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Intersections: Waiting for the ethnic identifier
Please don't let them be Muslim. Please don't let them be Hispanic. Please don't let them be Armenian. If your cultural background is a strong, prominent part of your identity, and you know all about the story of how your parents emigrated to America...
Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Islam, Religion and Belief
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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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