Racial Equality

The Dream: Diversity in the Arts

Michael Kaiser | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Racial Equality, Arts Programming, Donors, Martin Luther King Jr., Arts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fundraising, Diversity, Arthur Mitchell, Foundations, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

Why, given so much social progress, have we failed to produce more leading arts organizations of color? I think there are two different answers.

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Doing the Bidding of the "Slave Masters"

Michael Meyers | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Racial Equality, Schools, Charter Schools, Civil Rights, Naacp, Public Education Reform, Education Reform, Separate but Unequal, Education News
Michael Meyers

The truth is that the supporters of high-performing charter schools are trying to save as many minority kids as they can -- one small school at a time.

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What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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Eric Holder: We Haven't Achieved Racial Equality Yet

Essence | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Holder could have had a career as a rock star if he never bothered to study law. The United States Attorney General stood centerstage in front of...

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Bill Clinton: Struggle For Racial Equality "Nowhere Near Over"

AP | DAN SEWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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CINCINNATI — The push for racial equality is far from over, in sports and in everyday life, former President Bill Clinton told a crowd at Major ...

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Equality, Al Sharpton, Americans, America, Racial Equality, Martin Luther King Jr., World Peace, Legacy, Peace, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Racial Politics, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Vietnam War, Freedom, Abraham Lincoln, Racism, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Justice, African-Americans, Politics News
Kimberle Crenshaw

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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One Gigantic Shining Moment

Claudia Ricci | Posted 05.25.2011

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Claudia Ricci

In the moments immediately after Obama was sworn in, I turned to an African American woman standing behind me and we just hugged, celebrating in that tight embrace the collapse of racial divide.

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Dr. King's Other Dream: Ending Poverty

Joel Berg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Poverty, Mlk, Martin Luther King, War on Poverty, US Poverty, Racial Equality, Community Service, End to Hunger, Charity, Obama Inauguration, Food Crisis, MLK Assasination, Barack Obama Inauguration, New York City, Hunger, Dreams, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Joel Berg

Had America ever chosen to do so, it could have wiped out domestic poverty and hunger far more rapidly than it could have achieved King's goals of racial equality or world peace.

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What An Obama Presidency Would Mean

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alec Baldwin

With an Obama presidency, the last, great obstacle to meaningful racial equality in America will vanish, and with it, the yoke, real and perceived, of the limitations of the black experience in our country.

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