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Racial Disparity

Don't Mess With Texas? How the Supreme Court Should Rule on Education Case

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 12.10.2012 | College
Read More: Supreme Court, Racial Disparity, Minorities, Education, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Fisher vs. The University of Texas, Scotus, Equity, Affirmative Action, Hispanic American, Aapis, African Americans, Affirmative Action Hearing, College News
Rep. Mike Honda

I wholeheartedly believe that when a student's race is considered, it must be done in a careful and thoughtful way. Let us hope, for the sake of our nation's economic health, that the Supreme Court continues to let universities determine their own admissions criteria.

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Pushing Children Out of School -- A New American Value?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Out-of-School Suspension, Education, Cradle to School to Prison Pipeline, Black Students, Public School, Horace Mann, Zero Tolerance, Racial Disparity, Public Education Reform, Education Reform, New York Schools, Florida Schools, Georgia Schools, Massachusetts Schools, Home News
Marian Wright Edelman

Every time a child is excluded from school by adults or is chronically absent without any actions to determine why, we are failing the child and undercutting the importance of education. Hundreds of years after Americans first made that connection, what will it take for us to get it again today?

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A New Approach to Black Inequality

LaVar Young | Posted 04.17.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Black Leadership, Martin Luther King, Racial Disparity, Tennessee Racism, Black History Month, Black Voices News
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 | Black Voices
Read More: Executive Pardons, Racial Disparities, Department of Justice, Presidential Pardons, Racial Disparity, Racial Disparities in Presidential Pardons, Black Voices News

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 | New York
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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