WASHINGTON — Republican leaders on Thursday abruptly yanked an environmental spending bill from the House floor before a final vote amid a storm of protest over an amendment that would have allowed Confederate flags at federal cemeteries. The action came hours after South Carolina lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State Capitol’s
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules to combat segregation in federally subsidized housing, a piece of President Obama’s effort to address the racial disparities he argues are helping fuel unrest in cities across the country.
The long-awaited regulations, which are to be detailed
During an evening service titled “Stop, Look and Listen” in the spare fellowship hall of Mt. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church, after dire Scripture readings about plagues and last days, the minister rose before a sign that proclaimed, “Jesus saves!”
“I wanted to come by today to keep encouraging you to hold on,” the Rev. Max A.
The demographers agreed: at some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California.
Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t like counting movie ticket receipts.
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With transgender identity thrust prominently in the national spotlight in recent months, researchers at the University of Chicago and Rice University report that among transgender individuals there may be limited support for the inclusion of a transgender category in the U.S. Census.
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The city of Los Angeles may have to pay a former park groundskeeper more than $4 million after a state appeal court last week affirmed a verdict for racial and disability discrimination.
James Duffy, a mentally disabled white gardener, sued after his Latino supervisor harassed him, assigned him to inferior jobs and told him, “I hate
The Supreme Court’s decision to reconsider a challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin has universities around the country fearing that they will be forced to abandon what remains of race-based admission preferences and resort to more difficult and expensive methods if they want to achieve student diversity.
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GREELEYVILLE, S.C. — Another predominantly African-American church has burned in the South, the latest in a string of fires that has put congregations on edge.
Investigators on Wednesday morning were in Greeleyville, S.C., north of Charleston, where an African-American church caught fire overnight 20 years after the
President Obama announced Monday night a rule change that would make millions more Americans eligible for overtime pay.
The rule would raise the salary threshold below which workers automatically qualify for time-and-a-half overtime wages to $50,440 a year from $23,660, according
Racial and language minority students in elementary and middle school are less likely than their White, English-speaking peers to be identified as having learning disabilities, according to a new national study.
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