A significant majority of New Yorkers say the Police Department favors whites over blacks, according to a new poll by The New York Times.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/nyregion/64-of-new-yorkers-in-poll-say-police-favor-whites.html?hpw
JERUSALEM — Seven Israeli teenagers were in custody on Monday, accused of what a police official and several witnesses described as an attempted lynching of several Palestinian youths, laying bare the undercurrent of tension in this ethnically mixed but politically divided city. A 15-year-old suspect standing outside court said, “For my part he can die,
A discrimination and retaliation lawsuit has embroiled the upper reaches of the federal government’s immigration enforcement agency, contributing to a sense of turmoil in a bureaucracy that has been suffering major labor conflicts between senior officials and employees.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/immigration-agency-accused-of-unfairness-to-men.html?_r=1&hp
For years, New Jersey barred U.S.-born college students from receiving state financial aid if their parents were in this country illegally. Last week, a state court of appeals put an end to that misguided policy, finding that education officials had wrongly denied aid to an 18-year-old student born and raised in the United States because
A fired assistant state attorney general in Michigan has been ordered to pay $4.5-million in damages to the former University of Michigan student leader he attacked on an anti-gay blog, the Associated Press reported.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jury-awards-4-5-million-to-former-student-leader-attacked-on-anti-gay-blog/47165?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Robert D. Putnam’s research is being used to make the case that diversity is bad—and he’s not happy about it.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-putnam-says-his-research-was-twisted/30357?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
WASHINGTON — A state judge has refused to block a new Pennsylvania law that requires voters to display a current government-issued photo identification at the polls, upholding a Republican-backed measure that Democrats say may prevent tens of thousands of low-income and elderly voters from casting ballots.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-pa-voter-id-20120816,0,2346712.story
The Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica and its owner discriminated against members of a Jewish organization at a charitable event two years ago, a jury in Santa Monica determined Wednesday.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hotel-shangri-la-20120816,0,327708.story
Facing his best chance at legal status in the United States, Alan Valdivia struggled to answer some basic questions about himself. When did his family bring him here from Mexico? At what age? By what route?
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Starting Wednesday, under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, illegal immigrants who came as children can seek to stay legally under the Obama initiative.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigrant-kids-20120815,0,2097285.story