Media Fuels Negative Perception of Black Athletes

By | June 5th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

A new study from the University of Missouri released this week suggests that Black athletes are treated differently than their White counterparts in the media, a fact that comes as no surprise to many whose lives and livelihoods revolve around sports.

In an examination of 155 news articles, MU associate professor of strategic communication Dr. Cynthia

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‘Intolerant Jackass Act’ author may collect signatures for ballot proposal

By | June 4th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

The so-called Intolerant Jackass Act is, so far, being tolerated by state officials.

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Wednesday that the author of the proposed initiative may begin circulating the measure and collecting signatures.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Canada’s Forced Schooling of Aboriginal Children Was ‘Cultural Genocide,’ Report Finds

By | June 3rd, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

OTTAWA — Canada’s former policy of forcibly removing aboriginal children from their families for schooling “can best be described as ‘cultural genocide.’ ”

That is the conclusion reached by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission after six

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Supreme Court sides with Muslim girl denied a job over head scarf

By | June 2nd, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

Finding a civil rights cause that increasingly brings together conservatives and liberals, the Supreme Court told employers Monday that they had an “affirmative” duty under federal anti-discrimination law to accommodate the religious practices of employees and job applicants.

By an 8-1 vote, the justices sided with a 17-year-old Muslim girl who was rejected for a job

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Supreme Court rejects Arizona appeal over law to ban bail for immigrants

By | June 2nd, 2015|Immigration, Police & Community|

The Supreme Court, over three dissents, rejected Arizona’s appeal Monday of a law that would have denied bail to immigrants here illegally who were arrested for a serious felony.

The measure had been adopted in 2006 by the state’s voters, and it said judges may not release on bail persons who have “entered or remained in

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Use of Tasers Is Scrutinized After Walter Scott Shooting

By | June 1st, 2015|Police & Community|

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — It was late on a Sunday in May 2014 when Officer Michael T. Slager of the North Charleston Police Department stood outside an apartment and faced off with a man whose fists, he said, were clenched as he assumed an “aggressive stance.” Mr. Slager, who said

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Firing of Seton Hall Priest Highlights a Catholic Debate on Gay Believers

By | June 1st, 2015|Education, LGBTQ+|

When the Rev. Warren Hall called a reporter for the gay sports website Outsports.com last week to discuss his firing as director of Seton Hall University’s campus ministry, there was a certain logic to his move.

Father Hall was, after all, both a sports fan

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White Like You: The Challenge of Getting White Students to Grapple With Racial Identity

By | May 29th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When Frances E. Kendall talks to college leaders about race, she tends to hear a lot of facts and figures about minorities.

Three percent black. Five percent Asian. Three percent Latino. And maybe one or two Native Americans.

And then the numbers stop.

“No one says, ‘We have this many white students,’” says Ms. Kendall, a consultant who

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My Title IX Inquisition

By | May 29th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations|

When I first heard that students at my university had staged a protest over an essay I’d written in The Chronicle Review about sexual politics on campus — and that they were carrying mattresses and pillows — I was a bit nonplussed. For one thing, mattresses had become a symbol of student-on-student sexual-assault

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