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Defined out of existence
If you read through the 2010 Census form, past the part where it asks how many people are living in your house and past the part where it asks for people’s ages, you’ll find that there is a space for the American Latino contingent on Question 8. But immediately ...
The myth of a post-racial America
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from the Peculiar Institution, gave a talk in Corinthian Hall before the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Rochester, N.Y., in which he addressed the topic of “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” I was reminded of ...
American Indians: Resiliency in Independence
On the Fourth of July, citizens celebrate with barbeques, picnics, ceremonies and lots of fireworks each year in the United States. It marks a beginning point in this country’s history, independence from the British. How does the American Indian fit into this ...
The opposite of everything is true
The late Kwame Turé (Stokely Carmichael) used to talk about how, when as a young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer he’d gone South to face down the endemic violence of Jim Crow, the racism which had always defined the character of a country reserved...
On the wings of change
Greed, envy, individualism, and an excessive materialism are altering the human experience and causing a lack of equilibrium in the world. I believe the inequality has also generated racism, the sickness of discrimination. This world has lost values; it must begin ...
A renewed push to pass ‘Dream Act’
WASHINGTON — Early one morning in March, two Chicago-area brothers were dozing on an Amtrak train when it stopped in Buffalo, N.Y. A pair of uniformed Border Patrol...
SeaWorld seeks to settle with OSHA in death of killer-whale trainer
ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld...
