Segregation

Sixty Years After Desegregation, Ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Being gay should be no more of a barrier to serving the United States military than being black now is. My guess is that sixty years from now, people will wonder what took us so long.

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Three Things You Should Know About Women's 'Opt-Out' from Work

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Opt-Out Revolution, Women, Gender Gap, Segregation, Economy, Employment, Gender, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

The latest news in the opt-out wars comes from two Berkeley economists - Jane Leber Herr and Catherine Wolfram - who report on a study of almost 1,000 Harvard graduates at their 15th reunion. Their main finding is that the profession these women went into had big effects on their odds of remaining employed.

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1963 -- The Year of Hostility and Hope

Byron Williams | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1963, Martin Luther King, 1968, Segregation, Vietnam, Vietnam War, George Wallace, Racism, Politics News
Byron Williams

Given our current state, it is understandable that we would remember 1968 and Vietnam. But it was 1963 when we realized that hope and hostility lived, and continue to live, in close proximity.

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Obama, Race and Our Segregated Power Structure

Ari Melber | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Brown v Board, Race, Barack Obama, Segregation, Colin Powell, John Mcwhorter, Jesse Helms, Stephen Breyer, Politics News
Ari Melber

Obama's candidacy is a meaningful step towards addressing the fact that our national power structure has always been overwhelmingly white, from all 43 Presidents to 95 of the 100 senators serving today.

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Sam Stein

Gordon Smith Defends Lott's Segregationist Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Smith, 2002 Resignation, Senator Smith, Segregation, Trent Lott, Strom Thrumond, Lott's Resignation, Congress, Smith Supports Lott, Dixiecrat, 1948 Election, Politics News

Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, Sen. Gordon Smith, R-OR, offered a passionate defense of the pro-segregationist comments made by his col...

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What's So Great about Gated Communities

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Housing, Barbara Ehrenreich, Real Estate, Segregation, Gated Communities, Mcmansions, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Before we turn all of America into a gated community, with a steel fence running along the southern border, we should consider the mixed history of exclusionary walls.

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His Southern Strategy Made a Dent

Byron Williams | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Republican Racism, Racist South, Segregation, Civil Rights, Conservative South, Harry Dent, Politics News
Byron Williams

The "Southern Strategy" has proven so effective for Republicans that, except for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Democratic presidential nominees have all but written off the South as part of their electoral strategy.

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In Defense of O'Reilly

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Al Sharpton, Stereotypes, Racism, Blacks, Bill O'Reilly, Segregation, Harlem, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It's easy to razz O'Reilly as a loudmouthed racist. But dumping on O'Reilly for giving his honest reaction is disingenuous and self-serving. It simply puts O'Reilly on the hook while letting far too many others off of it.

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Elizabeth Eckford, Of The Little Rock Nine, Tells Her Life Story

Vanity Fair | David Margolick | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home

Read More: Little Rock, Racism, Elizabeth Eckford, Central High School, Segregation, Arkansas, Civil Rights, Integration, Home News

It was a school night, and Elizabeth Eckford was too excited to sleep. The next morning, September 4, 1957, was her first day of classes, and one last...

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What Studies Might Show

Ed Whitfield | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Education, Black Children and Learning, Race and Education, Race, Segregation, Diversity, Middle Class, Politics News
Ed Whitfield

Claims are made that the cause of black student underachievement is the imbalance of school populations. This doesn't make any sense to me, and no study could show otherwise.

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