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Election results map from 2012 compared to 1846 Civil War map.
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Census shows growth in number of interracial couplesCincinnati.comHouseholds with interracial opposite-sex married couples grew by 28 percent in the past decade, according to new Census data released Wednesday.
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Racism has gone underground, upgraded its look to be more stylish and user friendly. In fact, it’s undergone such a dramatic face lift that racists themselves don’t even know they’re racist....
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A photograph of a bumper sticker that features racist, anti-Obama language has gone viral on Facebook and other social networks. The sticker reads "Don't Re-Nig In 2012," in large white type, above smaller text that reads: "Stop repeat offenders.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. made some controversial comments recently, stating that New York Knicks' star Jeremy Lin is only getting hype because he is Asian.
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Because Heidi Klum and Seal never talked about their relationship in terms of race, they helped make progress for mixed-race couples, despite their pending divorce.
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New research suggests that some moms and dads are being needlessly worried, just because their newborn is a little petite.
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Adverts used to promote the show have been criticised for using the words: 'Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier' in large letters across images of travellers.
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I wanted to share this release from the National Center for Children in Poverty, based at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, because of...
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Forty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage in the United States, the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines is on the rise, according to a new study released Thursday.
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Film critic and awesomesauce Tweeter Roger Ebert tweeted: “In auditioning for TV commercials, it’s a seller’s market for the ‘ethnically ambiguous’” and included a link to a commercial casting call where they specifically stated that all actors must be ethnically ambiguous. If you think about it, it makes sense. Rather than alienating entire groups of people who look at a person in a commercial and think, “Oh, they’re not like me, so this product isn’t for me,” it’s a lot smarter to cast people who look a little bit like everyone, and therefore you reach everyone.
When Chris Bennett moved to Silicon Valley from Miami in 2010 to jump-start his Web business, his first goal was ...
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There's a new book by Tiffany Rae Reid about how to raise a 'biracial' child which got me thinking what a book would say about raising a 'mono-racial' child.
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A race attack in Virgina provokes a controversial debate on media and race...
"Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. In this colloquium we will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters."
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The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history.
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After two minors from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Fla., posted a nearly 14-minute-long racist rant on YouTube, the girls are "no longer students at the school," WCJB-TV reports.
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Quiet suffering continues more than five decades after a law tore apart a Baltimore couple and put their child in an orphanage. Barry Simms explains why. Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
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Posted by Brandon Loredo | Posted on 15 February 2012. Relationships have their trials and tribulations as it is — dealing with money issues, communication problems, or in some cases maybe even trust.
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About 6 percent of Caroline Middle School’s population is multiracial, a statistic that would not be possible without Mildred and Richard Loving, a couple from the school’s county whose Supreme Court case 45 years ago paved the way for mixed-race...
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I wanted to share this release from the National Center for Children in Poverty, based at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, because of (The @NCCP says: highest # of poor kids in America live in the South - Change assumption...
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One in 12 married couples is interracial, according to a Pew Research Center study.
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Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudicedRight-wing views make the less intelligent feel "safe"Analysis of more than 15,000 people Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent...
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Aspen, Colorado is almost 95% white with an African American population of only .44%.
In 1959, Richard Loving, who was white, and his wife, Mildred, of African American and Native American descent, were arrested for marrying. They took it to the Supreme Court - where they changed history.
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