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Feds: NJ police sergeant exams discriminatory
10:17 AM on 01/08/2010
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's widespread use of a written exam to promote police sergeants discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, according to a lawsuit...
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Census Bureau pushes to make sure minorities are counted
8:15 AM on 12/17/2009
VIDEO - Historically, the census has undercounted minorities, especially African-Americans and Hispanics, living in big cities...
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Rise of 'stop-and-frisk' searches noted in major U.S. cities
2:47 PM on 10/09/2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Police statistics gathered by The Associated Press show a sharp increase in the number of people stopped and questioned by officers each year...
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Swine flu may have greater impact on blacks, Hispanics
5:44 PM on 09/03/2009
VIDEO - Swine flu has had greater impact on blacks and Hispanics, according to records from the Boston Public Health Commission and Chicago Department of Public Health...
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Sotomayor becomes first Hispanic justice on Supreme Court
3:43 PM on 08/06/2009
The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S.Supreme Court.The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve...
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Sotomayor's effect on race debate
7:47 AM on 07/13/2009
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) With Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings beginning on July 13, the political peanut gallery will likely once again reach saturation with hackneyed characterizations of both her judicial philosophy and her place in history. Whether she is regarded warily as an "activist judge" or openly...
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Black and brown should unite against racial profiling
8:54 AM on 06/22/2009
We often hear the phrase 'this country was built on the backs of slaves'. Men and women who were stripped of all rights and liberties, and forcibly made to execute the hardest labor around, are undeniably responsible for the construction and subsequent power of the United States of America. But...
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Sharpton calls for sheriff's resignation over racial profiling
8:05 PM on 06/19/2009
PHOENIX, AZ -- Friday morning, the Rev. Al Sharpton broadcast his radio show from Phoenix, where he discussed the racial divide between Hispanics and Blacks. He invited Mary Rose Wilcox, Supervisor of Arizona's Maricopa County, to speak on his show. The radio show preceded Sharpton's meeting today with Maricopa County...
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Essence says rumors of folding are untrue
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