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Health Care Concerns: Gap Between Blacks, Whites Widens In Chicago

chicagotribune.com | Deborah L. Shelton | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Poverty, Segregation, Race Relations, Health, Chicago, Equal Rights, Race, Health Care, Health Study, Inequality, Chicago News

A widening gulf in the health status of blacks and whites in Chicago comes even as disparities between the two races nationally have remained relative...

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Book Review: Gene Dattel's "Cotton And Race"

AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Gene Dattel Cotton and Race, Slavery, Cotton and Race, Segregation, Race, Civil Rights, Integration, Gene Dattel, Books News

JACKSON, Miss. — Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his ...

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News
Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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Texas, the Eyes of Justice Are Upon You

Bill Moyers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Lbj, William Justice, Segregation, East Texas, Molly Ivins, William Wayne Justice, Justice Justice, Rick Perry, Politics News
Bill Moyers

While so many Texans have fought and are fighting the good fight in the Judge William Wayne Justice tradition, others believe in the law only when it sides with them.

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How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Richard & Mimi Farina, Thomas Friedman, David Crosby, Ipod, Mimi Farina, David Mansfield, Vaclav Havel, Steve Earle, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Velvet Revolution, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Political News, Jonas Kaufmann, Segregation, Entertainment News, Richard Farina, Bishop Ernest Palmer, Martin Luther King Jr., Dar Williams, Jussi Bjorling, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Roger McGuinn, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world.

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Con Games: How Conservatives Play the Race Card

Michael Conniff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Magical Negro, Fox News, Racism, Serena Williams, Kanye West, Race, Sean Hannity, Segregation, Media News
Michael Conniff

Ever since Barack Obama arrived on the scene, the race card has become magical for conservatives.

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Why Won't Health Care Advocates Talk About Race?

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uninsured, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, Segregation, Hispanics, Healthcare Reform, Race, African Americans, Politics News

Last week, over 8,000 people lined up to be treated by medical volunteers at the Forum stadium in Inglewood, California. It was a rare moment of visib...

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Health Care Today: Separate Is Not Equal

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 08.30.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Segregation, Washington, Civil Rights, Dr. Scheiner, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Help, Private Insurers, Health Care, Healthcare, Eyes & Ears News
Jeanine Molloff

End the de facto segregation we have now under private insurers and replace it with mandated single-payer health care for all Americans. This is the civil rights issue of our day.

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Arab Divisions: New Trend in Guest-List Lifestyles Splits Arab Societies

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Conspicuous Consumption, Persian Gulf, Poverty, Qatar, Extravagance, Global Economic Crisis, The Pearl, Cairo, Arab, Luxury, Wealth, The American University in Cairo, Segregation, Egypt, Middle East, Anthropology, Hermes, Poor, Versace, Gucci, Doha, Development, Real Estate, New Cairo, Man-Made Island, World News
Journalism Boot Camp

In the Qatari capital of Doha, the desert has transformed into lush, luxury communities. It is part of a trend in social segregation unlike anywhere else in the world.

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Segregation and Friends

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media, Segregation, Barack Obama, Brian Kilmeade, Fox and Friends, Obama Racism, Fox News Race, Beck Obama Racist, Fox and Friends Race, Beck Obama, Obama Race, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

A morning show that appeals to whites uncomfortable with the idea of racial integration in America? For the media brand experts at Fox, why the heck not?

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HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whites, Supreme Court, Poverty, Morgan Freeman, Paul Saltzman, Confederate Flag, Charleston, Prom Night in Mississippi, Sotomayor Hearings, Tallahatchie County, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan Photos, Charleston High School, Blacks, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, George Wallace, Racism, Mississippi Delta, Desegregation, Integration, Charleston Mississippi, Entertainment News
Katya Wachtel

Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: 14th Amendment, Spike Lee, Bryant Park, Mark Penn, 2012 Election, Terrence Yang, Racism, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Zero Mostel, Tavis Smiley, 13th Amendment, Colin Powell, Do the Right Thing, Reconstruction, Heidi Klum, Melting Pot, Cipriani's, Robert Johnson, Hip-Hop, Seal, Deb Slott, W.E.B. Dubois, Segregation, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Criminal Industrial Complex, Sonia Sotomayor, Sidney Poiter, Virginia Davies, Shelby Steele, The Dance Flick, Pink Elephant, Booker T. Washington, Home News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

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Speaking Out on Segregated Proms

Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Ethical Leadership, New York Times, Racism, Education, Social Justice, Prom, Segregation, Georgia, Living News
Rosalind Wiseman

What happens if you have a tradition that by its very nature makes people in your community feel alienated?

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WATCH: Speak Out Against The Jim Crow Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Lee Stranahan | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Homosexuality, Military, Gay Rights, Segregation, Homophobia, Desegregation, Barack Obama Gay Issues, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Issues, Barack Obama, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

2009-05-15-jimcrowvid.jpgI'm just personally sick of the stupidity of kicking people out of the military simply because of who they love.

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The Racial Mis-education of America's Youth

John Ridley | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Racism, Education, Public Education, Race, Segregation, Diversity, Politics News
John Ridley

Forty-one years on from the Kerner Commission's "two societies" declaration, we are traveling from "separate and unequal" to equal but separated.

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John Hope Franklin: A Precious Black Orchid

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: John Hope Franklin, John Hope Franklin Books, African American Scholarship, Segregation, American History, Racism, African-American History, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

While most scholars are content with conducting research, writing and lecturing, Franklin was quite the activist. He didn't just write about history, he lived it.

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Racism Stinks Up New York Restaurants

Rinku Sen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Immigration, Segregation, Racial Discrimination, New York City, Restaurants, New York Restaurants, New York-New York, Politics News
Rinku Sen

In one study of racism in the restaurant world, people of color were half as likely to get offers, and less likely to get interviewed in the first place.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News
Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Shopping Remains A Segregated Activity In America

The Economist | Posted 02.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Racial Segregation, Segregation, Shopping, Business News

Martin Luther King once described Sunday mornings, when people go to church, as the most segregated moment in American life. That is probably still tr...

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Here's To Obama and All of Us: We've Come A Long, Long Way!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Voting Rights Law, Michael Schwerner, Earl Warren, George W. Bush, Andrew Goodman, Birmingham, March on Washington, Civil Rights Law, Frank Rich, James Chaney, Barack Obama, Impeachment, Kelly Ingram Park, Mississippi Sheriffs, Martin Luther King, Dore Schary, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Ralph Abernathy, Selma, United States Supreme Court, Desegregation, Good Friday 1963, ABC News, Bull Connor, Meridian, Inauguration, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

I still remember the clicking of the marchers' heels as they moved into the Birmingham's business district, and, just then, the roar of a police motorcycle as it cut in front of King and Abernathy, halting the protest.

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Uninspired by Delaware Joe

Kip Williams | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Economic Justice, Barack Obama, Segregation, Civil Rights, Joe Biden, Racism, Rockin Solidarity Labor Chorus, Vukani Mawethu, Highlander Center, Politics News
Kip Williams

How did we get from "Yes We Can" and "change we can believe in," to Delaware Joe straight-talkin' about the middle class?

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1948, Dewey Defeats Truman, Executive Order 9981, Homosexual, Civil Rights, Sexual Orientation, Harry Truman, Racial, Campaign, Race, 1948 Election, 9981, Dadt, Military, 2008, 2008 Campaign, Integration, Black, Democratic Convention, Dixiecrat, 2008 Elections, Gay, 08, 2008 Election, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Army, 08 Campaign, Morale, African American, Segregation, Don't Ask Don't Tell, 2008 Presidential Race, Desegregation, Elaine Donnelly, Politics News
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 07.27.2008 | 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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