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'I Wondered Whether My Race Would Hold Me Back'

| Posted 02.12.2012 | High School

Read More: Black-Teens, Race and Poverty, Video, Poverty, Class Warfare, Race in America, Race Relations, Brooklyn, Foster Teens, Race and Class, Minority Teens, Brooklyn New York, Race, Minorities, High School News

This is a youth-written article from our friends at Represent Magazine, a platform for and by young people in foster care. By Natasha Santos I ...

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Jeremy Lins of America -- Please Stand Up!

Daniel Koh | Posted 02.09.2012 | Culture

Read More: Daniel Dae Kim, John Cho, Asian Americans, Jeremy Lin, Race, Race Relations, Asians, Asian American Culture, Asian-American, Asian Culture, Race in America, Culture News
Daniel Koh

The stereotype of the socially inept, meek Asian-American is one that needs changing. That ultimately requires Asian-Americans to challenge themselves --- and society at large -- to rethink the place of Asian-Americans in our society.

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WATCH: Is This Ad Racist?

Posted 02.08.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Racism, Pete Hoekstra, Pete Hoekstra Racism, Video, Funny or Die, Parodies, Race, Pete Hoekstra Ad, Funny Videos, Comedy News

Michigan Senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra raised some eyebrows on Sunday when he ran an ad locally during the Super Bowl that most people are callin...

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Remembering Vincent Chin: Pete Hoekstra and Being Asian in America

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Vincent Chin, Hate Crimes, Michael Nitz, Vincent Who?, Political Ads, Debbie Stabenow, Race, Asian American, Pete Hoekstra, Ronald Ebens, Debbie Stabenow for Senate, Racism, Curtis Chin, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Superbowl Commercials, Pete Hoekstra for Senate, Video, Politics News
Bruce Reyes-Chow

In a country that often sees race in terms of White America and Black America, like Latinos, Asian Americans live in a racial middle where we must choose between being Asian (or Chinese or Filipino or Indian) or American, but not both.

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WATCH: Meet A Black Person!

Posted 02.07.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Meet a Black Person, Video, Improv Everywhere Meet a Black Person, Colton Dunn, Aspen, Funny Videos, Improv, Improv Everywhere, Aspen Colorado, Race, Colorado, Comedy News

Aspen, Colorado is probably best known as a remote ski destination, but it's also one of the whitest cities in America. Less than .5% of the city's po...

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Romney's Sad Identity Crisis

Trooper Sanders | Posted 02.02.2012 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, White House, George Romney, Middle Class, President Obama, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Globalization, Jobs, Cranbrook, Race, Politics, Newt Gingrich, Michigan, Tea Party, Health Care, Republicans, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Poor People, Politics News
Trooper Sanders

For his character's sake, Mitt Romney should aim high and hold himself to his father's standard of public service. For our country's sake, Republican primary and, possibly, general election voters should as well.

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Boy Stabbed At School Because He 'Wasn't Black Enough'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.31.2012 | Education

Read More: Racial Bullying, Video, Bullying at School, Bullying Statistics, Bullying, Minority Students, Racism, Race, School Bullying, Minorities, Anti-Bullying, Education News

When one student stabbed 12-year-old Ryan Rodriguez in the back with a pencil and walked away, Ryan didn't have to ask for a reason why. He already kn...

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Shooting the Messenger: Arizona and the Ban On Ethnic Studies

John Riofrio | Posted 01.31.2012 | Politics

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Education, Race, Latino Politics, Arizona Immigration Law, Arizona, Arizona Ethnic Studies Ban, Affirmative Action, Politics News
John Riofrio

The misguided decision to ban ethnic studies turns truth into criminal behavior. It recasts Latinos and communities of color as outsiders, blaming them for their struggles in our flawed educational system.

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Why We Should Be Grateful for Newt Gingrich

Monique Ruffin | Posted 01.25.2012 | Politics

Read More: Chris Christie, Poverty, Adultery, 2012 Campaign, James Carville, Healing, Newt Gingrich, Race, Democrats, Gratitude, Bigotry, Republicans, Politics News
Monique Ruffin

Newt Gingrich is the gift that keeps on giving. Why? Because he brings out from the cover of darkness the shadow that exists within us. He makes no apologies for, nor acknowledges his actions that most of us find unforgivable and shameful.

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 01.24.2012 | Education

Read More: Latinos, Public Schools, Education, Rethinking Schools, Prison, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Race, 4th Amendment, African American Rights, Incarceration, Black Rights, Education News
Alan Singer

"We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy."

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RE: Racial Redux in the Republican Presidential 'Race'

James Peterson | Posted 01.23.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: Republican Primary, Michele Bachmann, Race, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry Niggerhead, Ron Paul, Racism, Black Voices News
James Peterson

Let's go to the NAACP national convention and explain to their largely professional middle and upper middle class membership that their 'Food Stamp' President has put more (white) people on government assistance than any other president in history.

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Hey NBC, Monday's Debate Panelists Need to Better Represent!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 01.22.2012 | Media

Read More: Republican Debates, Nbc Debate Moderators, CNN Debate, Nbc Debate Panelists, Nbc Debate, Nbc Gop Debate, Republican Primary Debates, Race, Nbc Republican Debate, Minorities, Media News
Linda Milazzo

After seventeen debates, all led by journalists, who for the most part don't represent the populations at-risk if any of these four are elected, isn't it time to have a representative panel do the grilling?

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Matt Sledge

'The Pruitt Igoe Myth' Finds Architecture's Big Flop Was Somebody Else's Fault

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Video, The Pruitt Igoe Myth, St. Louis, Public Housing, Urban Planning, Architecture, White Flight, Documentaries, Race, Movies, Politics News

The images of its destruction are some of the most iconic in all of modern architecture. Less than 20 years after they went up, the towers of the Prui...

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Tough Immigration Laws: Tough on Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 01.20.2012 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Undocumented Immigration, Alabama Immigration Law, Race, Undocumented Students, Undocumented Workers, Nationality, Fear, Children, Civil Rights, Undocumented Families, Families, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Alabama has passed the toughest immigration enforcement law in the country. Now children born in the U.S.A., American citizens, are living in fear. Some children are afraid to go to school.

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Will Pay for Status

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 01.20.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Consumer Behavior, Discrimination, Status, Race, Consumption, Status Symbols, Social Status Symbol, Symbol for Status, Symbol of Status, New Research, Status Symbol, Explained, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

In the U.S., the outward markings of success are for sale. The value of these status symbols is particularly high for people when they are feeling that they are being discriminated against.

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Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 01.20.2012 | Politics

Read More: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Derrick-Bell-Death, Remembering-Derrick-Bell, Derrick Bell, Derrick Bell Death, Advocate, Remembering Derrick Bell, Advocacy, Civil Justice, Activist, Law, University of Southern California, Education and Welfare, Lawyer, Harvard, Race, Injustice, School Desegregation, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Thurgood Marshall, Racism and American Law, Naacp, Racial Justice, Office for Civil Rights, University of Oregon, University of Pittsburgh, Race and Law, Legal Defense Fund, Harvard University, Oregon Law School, U.S. Department of Health, Racial Inequality, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, New York University, Inequality, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Throughout his storied career as a lawyer, law professor, and legal scholar until his death last October at age 80, Derrick Bell was well-known for his willingness to stand up and speak out about the injustices he saw around him, even when it cost him his own positions.

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Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook, Then Folds Under Public Scrutiny

Adam Kissel | Posted 01.19.2012 | College

Read More: Education News, Education, Syracuse University, Free Speech, Due Process, Syracuse, Race, Fire, College News
Adam Kissel

It was barely a year ago that Syracuse University was at the top of this list of the "12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" here at the Huffington Post. ...

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GOP Candidates' Racial Rhetoric Stokes Concern

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 01.18.2012 | Politics

Read More: Sc Primary, South Carolina Primary, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Sc Election 2012, Race, Sc Election, South Carolina Primary Election 2012, Sc Primary Results 2012, GOP Candidates, Racial Politics, Video, South Carolina Primary 2012. South Carolina Primary Election, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, Sc Primary 2012, Racism, Rick Santorum 2012, Sc Primary Election 2012, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food s...

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I'm Just A Person

Charissa Newkirk | Posted 01.18.2012 | High School

Read More: Black, Martin Luther King Day, Racial Stereotypes, Race, Diversity, Affirmative Action, High School News
Charissa Newkirk

When I fill out a college application, they will never know that I sing in the shower and used to play with Harry Potter Legos. What will they see? I'm a girl. I'm smart. And I'm black.

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Got ART?

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.17.2012 | Chicago

Read More: Jon Langford, Dj, Albany Park Theatre, Steve Dawson, Improv, Theater, Race, Music, Painting, Burkeman, Art, Tracy Letts, Nicholas Barron, Chicago, Theatre, Fear No Art, Gallery, Comedy, Chicago Around Town, David Mamet, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

Rene Romero Schuler's solo show at the Jennifer Norback Fine Art Gallery is up through the end of the month and shows incredible sensitivity to the female state; the outer image and the more ephemeral internal spirit.

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America's Welfare Queens Collect TARP Funds, Student Loans and Auto Bailouts, Not Food Stamps

John Hrabe | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Welfare, Welfare, Stereotypes, Bailout, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich, Race, Newt Gingrich Food Stamps, Election 2012, Tarp, Newt Gingrich Welfare, Politics News
John Hrabe

When in trouble, cue a Republican politician's favorite political villain, the welfare queen. You know the stereotype. The single African American mother whose full-time job is having more babies to increase her welfare benefits.

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Race, Class and Justice in the U.S. Legal System: Still a Long Way From the Promised Land

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 01.17.2012 | Crime

Read More: Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Amnesty International, Racism, Drugs, Race, Racial Profiling, Mandatory Minimums, Crime News
Marianne Mollmann

Last week, a Belgian tourist said he believed he had been cut some slack by the New York City police mainly because he was white. Indeed, even a perfunctory look at US criminal justice figures reveals that something is not quite right.

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Three Thoughts On Becoming Post-racial

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 01.16.2012 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Day, Race, Post Racial America, Post-Racial, Politics News
Bruce Reyes-Chow

On this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just offer three very random thoughts on the "post-racial" question.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Reaches The Mountain Top

Arielle Hixson | Posted 01.16.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: The Mountain Top, Angela Bassett, Civil Rights Movement, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Broadway, Black History, Racism, Race, Broadway Plays, Civil Rights, Black History Month, Mlk, Black Voices News
Arielle Hixson

Extremely original, The Mountain Top is a story about Martin Luther King Jr. as an ordinary man, a man that the public may have never seen. We manage to see him not as an intangible, iconic figure in history, but as a sweet yet complex individual with flaws.

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50 Birthdays, 50 Miles

heraldnews.suntimes.com | Posted 01.15.2012 | Fifty

Read More: 50 Miles, Aging, 50th Birthday, Inspiration, Running, Chicago, Health Post50, Race, Goals, Fifty News

CHANNAHON, IL. -- A lot of people would be satisfied to be in good enough shape to run even a couple of miles at the age of 50, but Michael Geldean we...

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