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An advocate of the rights of immigrant farm workers says they are more concerned with achieving any reform to immigration policy than in seeing an ideal package.
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I'm ashamed to say I didn't even know the strawberries were in raised beds. Even with the raised beds, one still has to bend over (all day) to pick those strawberries. My family eats a lot of strawberries :/ We care about organic food and fair trade but do we care about the people who harvest U.S. crops? Delete the scoop?
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Ethnic is a Eurocentric way of saying non-Western. In America since the 1920s it has meant something not part of White American culture: ethnic foods, ethnic beauty, ethnic neighbourhoods, etc. "Et...
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Part of Mixed American Life is recognizing that EVERYONE has an ethnic background. Delete the scoop?
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Maceo Parker looks back at his days with James Brown and the legacy of funk music, as laid out in his new autobiography 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music and his new album Soul Classics. Delete the scoop?
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European Americans often complain about the culture and presence of non-Europeans, although White policies are selective of the cultures and peoples allowed into the U.S.
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European Americans complain about the very people who they want in the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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The Tasmanian genocide (early 1800s) is where white British settlers wiped out nearly all the native people of Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) and then sent the few hundred still alive to ... Delete the scoop?
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If every straight person honestly answered this question, we'd wipe out homophobia tomorrow. Delete the scoop?
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Charles Ramsey, an American dishwasher, did something that the Cleveland police and the FBI could not do: with the help of Angel Cordero he freed three women (and a girl) who had been missing for ten years
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When I began writing about race and parenting and wanted to delve deeper into understanding the politics of speaking to people about race, racism, and more importantly, institutionalized racism, a friend doing this work directed me to…...
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click through to see the video - it's good - somehow Lee Mun Wah gets people to speak the honest truth Delete the scoop?
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Documentary filmmaker ("The Color of Fear") and Founder of Stirfry Seminars & Consulting, Lee Mun Wah, is featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Regarding Mixed American Life, Lee Mun Wah brings up the topics of segregation, and of the oppressed living among the oppressors.
I need to learn more about all the offerings of Lee Mun Wah. He seems like an amazing person who speaks straight to the point. Delete the scoop?
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Americans, mostly black, who live near large-scale farms say they are illegally discouraged from applying for work and treated badly by employers who prefer foreigners’ malleability.
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How does America treat those who harvest our crops? Delete the scoop?
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May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. In honor of the occasion, here are five things that I think you should know about Asian Americans.* 1. We D Delete the scoop?
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"Until moments before U.S. Border Patrol agents shot him dead on the night of October 10, 2012, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez had passed a pleasant evening in his hometown of Nogales, Mexico. He had visited his girlfriend, Luz, and watched television with her family; at around eleven o’clock, he asked Luz if she wanted to join him in his nightly routine of grabbing a hot dog at the convenience store where his brother worked." - Click for more -
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It sounds like US border patrol equates a dogs life with a human life. Delete the scoop?
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President Obama speaks at the Morehouse College commencement ceremony. Delete the scoop?
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We've been hearing a lot about Jason Richwine's racist views about Hispanics and immigration. Richwine is the co-author of the widely discredited--even b
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this is a great article packed with links to more interesting articles, it also inspired me to write my latest article at Community Village - European Americans want it Both Ways. Delete the scoop?
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While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically — roughly half the number than during peak years — just as many people are dying. Meaning for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly, more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history.
For years the age of those dying has been constant — they have been young — but today, these statistics are changing. According to two recent studies, what may be compelling older immigrants to risk death in the desert is this: more and more often, they are mothers and fathers who have long had homes in the United States, with American children who depend on them.
Don’t miss the third installment of Need to Know’s award-winning Border Patrol series, airing May 17 on PBS. Check local listings.
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"The problem with white America, according to attorney Dawn Cutaia, is that "we are racist and we don't even know it."
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Dear people who abuse children: Science is coming for you.
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http://DeportHate.org Our current immigration system is broken. Deportations are at a record high, families are being separated, immigrant workers exploited,... Delete the scoop?
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This weekly program from PRI hosted by Cornel West & Tavis Smiley features thought-provoking, intelligent and stimulating conversations. Listen, engage and discuss on www.smileyandwest.com or follow them on Twitter at @tavissmiley and @cornelwest.
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Tim Wise discussing the importance of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity.
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Derald Wing Sue discusses Microagressions in everyday life.
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and microinsults. but do these really occur outside the consciousnesses of the oppressor? Delete the scoop?
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"Minimizing racism has the effect of minimizing one of the most definitive and often humiliating experiences of our lives."
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Excellent article about the racist history of Oregon bleeding into modern times. Delete the scoop?
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Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913), an escaped Black American slave, was the most famous and successful conductor of the Underground Railroad, helping over 300 blacks to escape slavery from 1849 to 1860...
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Dr. Donnamarie Culbreth
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I've seen the large visors to protect the face from the sun, but this is the first I've seen a whole face mask. Delete the scoop?
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