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Advocates struggle to measure stimulus relief for minority businesses

By Krissah Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer As Congress looks to pass a second stimulus, groups that represent small, minority and women-owned businesses are eager to assess how much their companies have benefited from the $787 billion infusion of cash pushed through by the Obama administration...

January 18th, 2010 | Economics, Racial Equity | Read More

Afghan women writing for change

By Andrew Wander for Al Jazeera “The man sitting in front of me was my country’s president, but the only thing I could feel towards him was anger,” writes Meena, describing a meeting with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. “I lost respect for him because of his policies towards...

January 11th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Whither women’s liberation?

By Mythili Rangarajan for The Hindu When I met a friend of mine recently, I found her unusually sad which is against her otherwise cheerful nature. When I asked her the reason for her disorientation, she said to me, “Go watch the documentary ‘Holy Wives’ by Ritesh Sharma. It depicts the truly heartrending...

January 11th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Sotomayor’s way with words

By Michelle Chen of RaceWire.org The January 11 issue of the New Yorker features a long article on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, parsing her roots in a working-class Bronx neighborhood, her early activism in the Puerto Rican community as a student, and the political waltz leading up to her appointment to...

January 11th, 2010 | Talk About Race | Read More

Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize

But It’s Up to Us to End This War By Julianne Hing, RaceWire From President Obama’s speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize today: Doug Mills/The New York Times There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.I...

December 14th, 2009 | Politics, US | Read More

Where Pollution Goes Health Problems Follow

By Leticia Miranda, RaceWire This recent story in the Contra Costa Times, aptly titled “In East Bay, Where Pollution Goes, Health Problems Follow,” couldn’t be any more relevant. As the Copenhagen Conference continues, two local Bay Area writers follow the story of 10 year-old John Fitzpatrick...

December 14th, 2009 | Health, Racial Equity | Read More

It’s always sunny on West Bank’s Sesame Street

By Joseph Nasr RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – It’s always a sunny day on Sesame Street in the West Bank, where the neighbors are friendly and the muppets never see an Israeli army checkpoint all day long. The Shara’a Simsim version of the popular television program teaches Palestinian...

December 14th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More

New UC admissions policy would hurt African Americans, Asians

By Henry Der, New America Media, News Analysis The new freshman admission policy will take UC admissions in the wrong direction, and it will seriously affect minority applicants. Earlier this year on the recommendation of President Mark Yudof and the Academic Senate, the University of California Board...

December 8th, 2009 | Education | Read More

Studies show Latinos climb socio-economic ladder of success

By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact As a front-page story in today’s Washington Post reminds us: “Not since the last great wave of immigration to the United States around 1900 has the country’s economic future been so closely entwined with the generational progress of an immigrant group.” The...

December 8th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More

Racism among white supremacists is getting worse

Racism among white supremacist groups in Britain’s towns and cities is getting worse, a Cabinet minister John Denham will warn today. By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor, UK Telegraph John Denham, the Communities secretary, will give warning that Muslims are not the only group which can breed...

December 8th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More

Analysis: The Fight Over the Redskins Trademark

By Sonia K. Katyal A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving the trademark for the Washington Redskins. That decision left in place a lower court ruling stating that the plaintiffs had waited too long to bring a case for trademark cancellation – thus triggering the doctrine...

December 8th, 2009 | American Indians, Featured | Read More

Bizarre ‘I’m A Racist’ Health Care Video

Political ad features voters ‘admitting’ they are racist An unknown political group has uploaded this video to YouTube.com under the username ‘IWANTYOURMONEYDOC’. The 60 second ad, titled ‘I guess I’m a racist,’ is getting a lot of attention today from both...

December 8th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More

Is racial sensitivity a learned behavior?

By Barbara Ciara, Columnist for the Daily News I remember the first time I heard the N-word. Even though I didn’t know what it meant or why the person said it, I just knew it was a bad thing, because of how it made me feel. I was 6 years old and the lesson I learned that day is that words can be...

December 7th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More

Claim of Cuban racism rejected

Afro-Cubans responded to a letter from prominent African-Americans calling for an end to racism in Cuba. By JUAN O. TAMAYO, Miami Herald Pro-government Cuban writers and artists Friday rejected allegations by African-Americans of racism and repression on the island, calling the charges “delusional”...

December 7th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More