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The Race Card by Richard Thompson Ford

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[1.May.08] :. The Race Card brilliantly forces thinking on practices such as profiling to new levels of candor and complexity.

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State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama

by Matt Mazur

[11.Apr.08] :. In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.

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News

Disney accused of profiling black teens

by Henry Pierson Curtis and Scott Powers [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[28.Jun.07] :. ORLANDO, Fla. - Walt Disney World ejected four of Florida State University’s top football prospects from Downtown Disney last weekend under its anti-gang, no-loitering policy. The four,...

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Racism takes many hues: In Brazil, the experience is like looking into a fun-house mirror

by Leonard Pitts Jr. [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[27.Jun.07] :. RIO DE JANEIRO—An adage comes to mind: “If you’re white, you’re all right. If you’re brown, stick around. If you’re black, get back.” It was a folk...

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Limbaugh targets the role race plays in Obama candidacy

by Christi Parsons [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.May.07] :. WASHINGTON - Weeks after radio personality Rush Limbaugh began airing a parody titled “Barack the Magic Negro,” the song about African-American Sen. Barack Obama’s popularity with...

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Facing the music about a Florida town’s racism in the ‘50s

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[2.May.07] :. Country music songwriting legend Bobby Braddock recalls Auburndale, Fla., where he grew up in the 1940s and ‘50, as a rural, Southern burg where orange groves alternated with cattle...

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Sounding the Call for Equality: An Interview with Mavis Staples

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[25.Apr.07] :. Staples: "What has really changed? I'm 67 years old, and I was here the first time around and it's still not fixed. We can't let Dr. King shed his blood and die for us trying to get justice and live in a world like this."

 

30 years ago, Sly Stone’s music led the national dialogue on race

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[17.Apr.07] :. In 1969, I was summoned to the office of the jewelry store attached to the record store that I managed. The idea was you would come into the record store for a $5 LP and be enticed next door for a...

 

Don Imus: The Character of the Content

by David Swerdlick

[13.Apr.07] :. It would be easy to "get over" a disparaging remark about one’s race or gender (or religion or sexual orientation) if one could confidently believe that one's thus ridiculed identity would never be the cause of denied fair treatment, or extended common courtesy, in society at large.

 
 
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