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Conventional wisdom says “Stay away from race. It’s a distraction at best and polarizing at worst.” With a Black president, this advice seems to be repeated louder and more often than before. Unfortunately, for those interested in progressive policy, President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress are buying the conventional wisdom; and they’re losing. Healthcare [...]
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Title VI Complaint by San Francisco Bay Area Coalition Has National Implications by Urban Habitat In the first successful action of its kind in the nation Urban Habitat, helped organize a coalition that filed a civil rights complaint to stop $70 million in stimulus funds from being allocated to a $500-billion boondoggle elevated “people-mover” known [...]
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The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President, gave me hope that our Country was at last moving forward from centuries of racist thought and practice. By the fall of 2009, the President was rejecting suggestions that political opposition was couched in racist thinking. US News on September 16, 2009, reported that “President [...]
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By Dominique Apollon, Research Director, Applied Research Center The Great Recession has led to lasting unemployment for many, the greatest number since the last downturn in the 1980s. Those hardest hit include people of color and single women and mothers who have been troubled by an utter lack of economic opportunity, while the social safety [...]
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Children ages eight to 18 spend more than seven hours a day with entertainment media, according to national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation released last month. The consumption of entertainment media includes listening to music, playing video games, watching TV and social networking on sites like Facebook. Adults of course likely spend far less [...]
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By Stephen Maynard Caliendo, associate professor of political science at North Central College and Charlton McIlwain, associate professor of media, culture and communication at New York University. Both are investigators on The Project on Race in Political Communication. We all watched Obama dazzle the American public with his 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech in [...]
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By Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director, Generations Ahead I have a confession to make – even after six years of working on race and genetics, the science of genetics still make my eyes glaze over. Chromosomes, alleles, ACGT — I paid attention to none of these things until I made the connection between race and human [...]
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By Patricia Cunningham II, Graduate Associate, Office of Minority Affairs, The Ohio State University and William Sturkey, Gradute Teaching Assistant, Department of History, The Ohio State University “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” -Ella Baker Historical Lens Many of the most common scenes from the Civil Rights Movement misconstrue basic movement lessons. These images often [...]
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We as a nation are at a critical juncture—we are working to re-shape America’s role in the 21st century global economy, and to create the jobs and the infrastructure that will help us create equal opportunities for success for all Americans. At the same time, we are living in a moment where our traditional notions [...]
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By Cynthia Silva Parker, Senior Associate, Interaction Institute for Social Change Facilitating discussions and dialogues about race can be tough. Lack of information and knowledge, different lived experiences, unspoken assumptions, varying definitions of key concepts and differing interpretations of problems and solutions are just a few of the things that can get in the way [...]
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