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Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story. Delete the scoop?
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What do you expect when you ask a terrible question in a ridiculous setting?
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Seriously though, what is the best answer to that question!?
Would she win if she said: "The problem is men. Men have been oppressing women since day one and it needs to stop right now!" Delete the scoop?
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Medgar Evers (1925-1963), a martyr of the American civil rights movement, died 50 years ago today on June 12th 1963. He was the head of the NAACP in Mississippi, the most racist state in the nation... Delete the scoop?
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Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig reflects on the NSA controversy and lays out his plan for comprehensive campaign finance reform.
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Journalist Sheryl McCarthy talks with newsmakers about their sources of inspiration. She has private conversations about public affairs issues with the peopl...
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Part of Mixed American Life is living with the mental bagage of a history of oppression and oppressors - and living with ongoing oppression and oppressors. Delete the scoop?
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Washington (CNN) - Making an argument for overhauling the nation's immigration system Friday to a crowd of conservative activists, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush claimed immigrants were "more fertile" and thus a great benefit to American society.
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Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.
This is one massive reality check, folks. Delete the scoop?
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Are White Americans the good guys of history? There are two main answers to this: No, of course not: Genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, wars of empire in Mexico, the Caribbean, Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq... Delete the scoop?
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"You may have seen this story making the gossip rounds: at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s wedding, Timberlake’s longtime real estate agent made a congratulatory gag video, featuring footage of homeless people from L.A. giving the couple their congratulations. Gawker went public with it yesterday, and their write-up covers its “greatest hits,” as it were:"
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the wealthy having fun with the homeless - ahh - what a riot Delete the scoop?
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Here are the common signs in American film and television that a character is an ethnic or racial stereotype. Any one of these might be innocent, but each is a red flag. In this post I use "ethnic"...
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I know this article is not only about Speedy Gonzales, but at least Speedy Gonzales was not a negative stereotype 'cause he always out smarts Sylvester! Maybe Jason Richwine never watched Speedy Gonzales. Delete the scoop?
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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS, Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89–236)[1] abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act. It was proposed by United States Representative Emanuel Celler of New York, co-sponsored by United States Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, and heavily supported by United States Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. The Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year, with a per-country-of-origin quota, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, nor "special immigrants" (including those born in "independent" nations in the Western Hemisphere, former citizens, ministers, and employees of the U.S. government abroad).[1] The 1965 act marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. The law as it stood then excluded Latin America, Asians and Africans and preferred northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern ones.[2] At the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s the law was seen as an embarrassment by, among others, President John F. Kennedy, who called the then-quota-system "nearly intolerable".[3] After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill at the foot of the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic gesture. Delete the scoop?
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"6. Prejudice is not logical. That makes [racism] hard to disprove, logically. It can be confirmed by facts (one loud-mouthed black woman) but never disproved (a hundred quiet black women). It works in a part of the brain that deals with feeling, not thought."
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Stastics of stop-n-frisk and the Prison Industrial Complex prove racism to me. Delete the scoop?
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This is the first song I've heard that is clearly pro gay-rights.
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Part of Mixed American Life is living with different people - without oppressing them. Delete the scoop?
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The Human Rights Salute, popularly known as the Black Power Salute was made famous to the world at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
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Of course, such a question is a bit more hopeful than I usually am and is slightly dangerous per se. But is there something to it? This week Sebastien De La Cruz has been a focus across the media, ...
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It happens to be Loving Day which is what prompted me to finally get around to posting about the Cheerios. Happy Loving Day! Interracial Marriage (black/white) has been legal for a grand total of.... Delete the scoop?
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Making Love Legal The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church
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I saw this video when it ABC TV did this experiment on "What Would You Do?" on racial profiling and discrimination, and the site Upworthy just posted the video again. It is a must watch if you have... Delete the scoop?
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Sesame Street has produced a 30-minute program for kids dealing with parents in jail, not for regular broadcast but to be sent to schools and therapists. Delete the scoop?
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Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All the black teenager did was appear threatening by sho... Delete the scoop?
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Interview with Philip Emeagwali @ IOD London
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Philip Emeqgwali is a pioneering researcher in computer technology with an IQ of 190, higher than Einstein.
His U.S. degrees are from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan."
As he explains the history of African science, the thought came to me that Africans created all people. Respecting our forefathers includes respecting Africans.
""The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present." Delete the scoop?
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The Anything But Racism argument, common among White Americans, says that racism is so dead that it is the least likely cause of the races being unequal, like in housing, education, unemployment, p...
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Dramatic Reading of Racist YouTube Comments Left on ‘What Kind of Asian Are You?’ Video - COLORLINES
Actors read real comments from “What Kind of Asian Are You?”
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