Racial Disparity

A New Approach to Black Inequality

LaVar Young | Posted 04.17.2012

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LaVar Young

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't that we should fight -- that was clear -- it was how we should fight that Martin Luther King, Jr. most effectively communicated. But today the landscape has changed.

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What Can Be Done About Racial Disparities In Presidential Pardons?

Lois Beckett and Robin Respaut/ProPublica | Posted 12.09.2011

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ProPublica's Lois Beckett and Robin Respaut report: If the government wants to correct racial disparity in presidential pardons, it will require a...

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Fighting to Make Health Equality a Reality

Nisha Agarwal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bronx, Segregation, Health Insurance, Heath Care Reform, Medicaid, Medical Apartheid, New York, Racial Disparity, New York News
Nisha Agarwal

Health insurance reform, while important, will not be enough to eliminate the racial and ethnic disparities that reveal themselves, vividly, in the Bronx.

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