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Merrill Lynch Set To Pay Largest-Ever Racial Discrimination Settlement
By Alan Pyke Eight years after a group of black financial advisers filed a lawsuit alleging their bosses systematically steered the most profitable business to white employees, Merrill Lynch is preparing to pay the largest racial discrimination settlement ever. In … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, business, discrimination, Financial adviser, lawsuit, Merrill Lynch, race, racism, wall street
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Twitter Sparks A Serious Discussion About Race And Feminism
By NPR Staff Twitter isn’t always the best place for big, thorny philosophical conversations. But it’s a great forum for catharsis and taking the temperature of a popular sentiment. Sometimes, rarely, it’s actually both. If you were on Twitter last … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Hugo Schwyzer, race, twitter, women
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Immiseration: Deliberative Impoverishment and Racial Profiling
By Dr. Merelyn Bates-Mims ***Update: Please take the survey “Is good citizenship an effective guard against being profiled?”. It only takes a minute and the information is confidential. Here’s the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VG8YRTV ~ SB. Thanks!!*** Immiseration? Don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Kotlowitz, Fifth Avenue, France, Jean Valjean, Les Misérable, politics, poverty, race, racial equity, United States, Victor Hugo
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The Hunt for the White Trayvon Martin
By Elspeth Reeve The hunt for the white Trayvon Martin has evolved since the case became national news, with a changing cast of victims and perpetrators, but the problem has remained the same: instead of countering the racial narrative of the … Continue reading
What I learned from getting shot
By Brian Beutler I haven’t said or written much publicly about the shooting that nearly killed me in 2008. But a recent confluence of events — Trayvon Martin’s death, the Zimmerman trial and the public pronouncements of mostly privileged, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged gun violence, guns, politics, race, racial profiling, stop & frisk
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Colorado Legislator: Poverty Higher Among Black Race Because They Eat Too Much Chicken
By Josh Israel In a meeting of the state’s Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednesday, Colorado State Sen. Vicki Marble (R) delivered a long monologue suggesting that the reason for poverty among certain minority groups was that they eat … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, Black people, Colorado, Denver, poverty, race, racism, Republicans, Vicki Marble
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Building a New Racial Justice Movement
By Rinku Sen This week, the nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with events in Washington, D.C., and many other cities. A hot summer of race news—Moral Mondays to preserve voting … Continue reading
Memo to police: No, you’re not making us feel safe!
By Brittney Cooper Since a federal judge ruled last week that the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk techniques was unconstitutional, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly have staunchly defended this law enforcement tactic, continuing to credit the practice with … Continue reading
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