Complaint alleges racial bias in Palmdale elections
Case scheduled to go to trial in May alleges that Palmdale’s system of at-large council seats dilutes the influence of minority voters.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Voting Rights Act faces key test in Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up a case from Alabama next week to decide whether to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark measure that made voting a reality for blacks in the South and won extension by a near-unanimous vote from Congress in 2006.
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Opinion: Why Gender Equality Stalled
THIS week is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s international best seller, “The Feminine Mystique,” which has been widely credited with igniting the women’s movement of the 1960s. Readers who return to this feminist classic today are often puzzled by the absence of concrete political proposals to change the status of women.
Voting Rights Act Is Challenged as Cure the South Has Outgrown
EVERGREEN, Ala. — Jerome Gray, a 74-year-old black man, has voted in every election since 1974 in this verdant little outpost of some 4,000 people halfway between Mobile and Montgomery. Casting a ballot, he said, is a way to honor the legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a civil rights landmark born from
Sports Illustrated’s New Swimsuit Issue Rouses Ire Over ‘Ethnic Props’
BEIJING — Sports Illustrated magazine’s Swimsuit issue has drawn criticism from feminists and other women, and some men, for unnecessarily sexualizing women and exhibiting bad taste. Or good taste, depending on your point of view.
Read more in The New York Times.
The Changing Face of Racism
Thought this might be interesting….
Has racial discrimination disappeared, or does it still continue in subtler forms? Virginia Huynh, assistant professor of child and adolescent development at California State University, Northridge, presents her research on the impact of microaggressions in social interaction.
‘Racist Ragers’ and the Party Papers
The Kappa Sigma fraternity’s chapter at Duke University set off a flood of criticism last week for inviting students to a party titled “Asia Prime,” which featured conical hats, sumo loincloths, and an invitation written in a stereotypical accent.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/racist-ragers-and-the-party-papers/55203?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Glendale Unified, police settle suit over racial profiling
The ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday that it had reached settlements with the city of Glendale and the Glendale Unified School District on behalf of eight Latino students who alleged that officials engaged in racial profiling and illegal searches during a 2010 incident at Hoover High School.
Boy Scouts Postpone Decision on Admitting Gays
IRVING, Tex. — The Boy Scouts of America, which reconfirmed last summer its policy banning openly gay people from participation, then said last week it was reconsidering the ban, said on Wednesday that it would postpone until May their decision, as talk of gays in the ranks has roiled a storied organization that carries deep
Boy Scouts delay decision on admitting gays
A decision on whether the Boy Scouts of America will keep its policy that excludes gay members and leaders will not be voted on until the organization’s annual meeting in May, the national executive board said Wednesday.