Posted in Intergroup Relations
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120517
Posted in Police & Community
HOUSTON — An all-white jury found a white former city police officer not guilty Wednesday in the videotaped beating of 15-year-old African American burglary suspect Chad Holley, eliciting cries of outrage from community members. Read more in the Los Angeles …
Posted in Intergroup Relations
Individually, the poor are not all that tempting to thieves. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you’ll be lucky to get bus fare to flee the crime scene. But …
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New 2011 census estimates due to be released indicate that ‘an important landmark’ has been reached in U.S. demographic evolution as longtime immigration growth ebbs, an expert says. Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0517-census-report-20120517,0,5306040.story
Posted in LGBT
Northern California Presbyterian governing body makes history by rejecting church’s official denunciation of minister who performed same-sex marriages. Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0516-minister-rebuke-20120516,0,1095731.story
Posted in Education
In America’s push for education reform, the college completion problem is now under the microscope. The Obama administration’s goal, for instance, is to have 60 percent of young people (aged 25-34) across the country with some postsecondary credential by 2020. …
Posted in Intergroup Relations, LGBT
Virginia’s Republican-controlled House rejected the judicial nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor early Tuesday morning, plunging the critical swing state into the middle of the national debate about the civil rights of gay Americans. Read more in The New York …
Posted in Intergroup Relations, LGBT
WASHINGTON — Some of their best friends turned out to be gay. Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/politics/for-some-same-sex-marriage-is-not-politics-its-personal.html?ref=politics
Posted in Intergroup Relations, Police & Community
President Obama, shifting the focus from his recent endorsement of same-sex marriage to what he portrays as a lifelong belief in the essential role of women, told female graduates of Barnard College in New York City on Monday that they …
Posted in Intergroup Relations, LGBT
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about race and gender on American television. One thing can certainly be said, the conversation has not been dull. Internet blogs have been in overdrive, and the conversation has managed to find …