Social, economic and political progress today rests on grass-roots efforts rather than from big-name leaders.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — President Obama declared on Friday that the United States had made “enormous strides” in race relations since the March on Washington 50 years ago, but said “institutional barriers” for African-Americans and other minorities still existed and must be overcome.
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An Oberlin College student acknowledged posting anti-Islam fliers and racist cards around the campus of the Ohio institution earlier this year, saying he had meant them as a “joke” to provoke a reaction, the Associated Press reported, citing reports by the campus police and the City of Oberlin police.
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Australian Christopher Lane was killed on Monday in Oklahoma by three teens, one of whom has said they were just “bored.” The right is complaining that the media is making nothing of the fact that two of the teens were black whereas Lane was white, as opposed to the massive alarm sounded in cases such
As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May, Christopher Marshall, age 7, was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to “shoot” a
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday escalated its efforts to restore a stronger federal role in protecting minority voters in Texas, announcing that the Justice Department would become a plaintiff in two lawsuits against the state.
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WASHINGTON — Catherine M. Russell’s portfolio includes half the population of the planet, roughly 3.5 billion women. But working with the 70,000 employees of the State Department to make women’s issues a permanent priority, she said, may be the “harder slog” in a difficult new job.
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Nearly half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream that someday people would be judged not by their race but by their character, whites think a colorblind society is much closer to reality than blacks, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
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Christopher Lane was Australian. But his death in Oklahoma — allegedly at the hands of three “bored” teenagers — has become entangled in uncomfortable conversations and
Duncan, Okla., residents, uncertain of the motive in the shooting death of college exchange student Christopher Lane, wonder aloud about race and other divisions in their changing town.
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