President Obama urged a crowd of black American males on Sunday to stop blaming discrimination ... president rallied against the racism of the 1940s and 50s and the Jim Crow laws. He told the graduate...
President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses...
In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get "pre-clearance" from the Justice Department be...
Sprint Cup Series driver Jimmie Johnson has won the past two All-Star Races. (Photo: Sam Sharpe, USA TODAY Sports) CONCORD, N.C. -- Once hailed as the most distinctive and exciting of any showcase in ...
The reality is that we live in a world where 3, 5 and 7-year-olds are terrified of being branded as "fat." If that's not an indication that something needs to change, we don't know what is. Also on Hu...
President Obama has made a rare intervention on the issue of race, urging the graduates of a predominantly black university not to use racism and “the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation” a...
(Newser) – Obama delivered the commencement speech at the historically black, all-male Morehouse College today, encouraging graduates to use their education to help others in their communities, act ...
WOLCOTT -- Two teachers who were named as defendants in a racial discrimination lawsuit have been cleared of wrongdoing. The teachers, Jacqueline Uccello and Tammy Couture, continue to teach in Wolcot...
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President Obama urged a crowd of black American males on Sunday to stop blaming discrimination ... president rallied against the racism of the 1940s and 50s and the Jim Crow laws. He told the graduate...
President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses...
In Nicholas Polera’s anti-discrimination poster, colours from a row of crayons run downward and bleed into each other. The caption reads: Every colour comes together to fight racism. Nicholas’s po...
In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get "pre-clearance" from the Justice Department be...
Sprint Cup Series driver Jimmie Johnson has won the past two All-Star Races. (Photo: Sam Sharpe, USA TODAY Sports) CONCORD, N.C. -- Once hailed as the most distinctive and exciting of any showcase in ...
The reality is that we live in a world where 3, 5 and 7-year-olds are terrified of being branded as "fat." If that's not an indication that something needs to change, we don't know what is. Also on Hu...
President Obama has made a rare intervention on the issue of race, urging the graduates of a predominantly black university not to use racism and “the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation” a...
(Newser) – Obama delivered the commencement speech at the historically black, all-male Morehouse College today, encouraging graduates to use their education to help others in their communities, act ...
WASHINGTON – People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under legislation that easily passed the Hou...
The Federal Government has attacked the Coalition over its decision to reject a boost to family tax payments for people with new babies. Labor announced the increased payments in last week's budget as...
The wind energy sector, which saw nearly 50 per cent drop in new installations last year, has sought restoration of Central Government benefits to those who invest in windmills. K. Kasthurirangaian, p...
Back home, employers are cutting hours to avoid ObamaCare fines for failing to provide full-time workers with broad, affordable coverage. There's evidence that firms are adding workers and reducing ho...
"I think the Department for Work and Pensions is the real culprit here. It's the government training that makes Atos assessors do this." The work capability assessment is used for the government's emp...
Gov. John Kitzhaber announced this afternoon that he will support a proposal to alter or eliminate some pension benefits for former public employees who are no longer in the Public Employee Retirement...
Also, total benefits for service-occupation workers fell in Q1, the first decline on record, in a sign that employers are preparing to shift some costs of health care coverage to the government. Some ...
The direct payment demonstration pilots, in which housing benefit is paid directly to tenants instead of landlords, has been extended by six months by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The D...
Black children constitute 18% of the nation’s public school population but 40% of the children ... suspicion and detention. In New York City between 2002 to 2011, 90 percent of the city’s notoriou...
President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses...
ATLANTA — President Obama said today that he is motivated by the knowledge that “but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,” in a commencement address at historically black Moreho...
an extremely powerful lobbying group that actually has a statement on diversity on its website. Ironic, isn’t it. I guess they only discriminate against Y-chromosomes. We have media companies and ca...
These facts started to receive more attention when one farmer, Timothy Pigford, filed a lawsuit in 1997 because he was denied a loan by the Farmers Home Administration ... the "USDA's failure to act d...
In a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, President Barack Obama recalls Jim Crow laws and racism of the 40s and 50s. Morehouse College is a historically black college. "Dr. ...
the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medger Evers, the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks. In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Panelists will be recognized leaders from faith groups, N...
Yesterday, Maryland's governor signed into law legislation protecting pregnant women from workplace discrimination ... An important Congressional subcommittee held a hearing today on domestic drone us...
But to hear Daniel Snyder exclaim “NEVER” seems highly insensitive — and offensive. I understand there’s history in the name Redskins as it’s been used since 1933, but society has moved on s...
The title of acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's painfully novel and fourth work of fiction is African code for ... to analyze and critique contemporary American attitudes towards rac...
