Affirmative action

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• Remarkable Transgender Appointment–and Major Anti-Discrimination Resources

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 508
  A very useful website for information on civil rights issues these days is http://www.civilrights.org. Civilrights.org is operated by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. It has many useful lists of anti-racism and other anti-discrimination sources and ...
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• What We Talk About When We Talk About Diversity

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 129
  Late last semester, a display on gender balance in universities went up on the diversity-education board in the residence hall where I work. The board is the responsibility of a student who gets room, board, and a cash stipend for updating it once a month, plus organizing two educational programs each month, ...
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• Stimulus Package Forces States to Raise Taxes, Harms Economy

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 540
  The federal government’s $800 billion stimulus package, which failed to cut unemployment, is now forcing states and local governments to raise taxes.  The Wall Street Journal describes how “stimulus dollars came with strings attached that are now causing enormous budget headaches . . . At the behest of ...
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• Florida Attorney General Questions Constitutionality of Healthcare Bills in Congress

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 540
  Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is questioning whether it is constitutional to force people to buy health insurance, as the health care bills backed by the Obama administration require.  This “individual mandate” is unprecedented and appears to exceed Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause of ...
  5 days ago

• Affirmative Action Revisited

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 637
  By Guest Contributor Jenn, originally published at Reappropriate I saw this short post on Time’s Detroit Blog today: Still Getting It Wrong on Affirmative Action . In it, blogger Darrell Dawsey comments about the recent news that civil rights groups in Michigan have brought an appeals case challenging the ...
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• Capitol newsletter lists top Legislative accomplishments of the decade

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 129
  With the end of the decade just three days away, reporters and writers are reflecting on both end of the year and end of the decade with the best of stories and lists. Subscription only Gongwer has put together a list of the most significant laws passed in the Michigan Legislature in the past decade. My number one is ...
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• Affirmative action must be based on income, not race

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 111
  http://www.suntimes.com/news/cepeda/1960763,CST-EDT-esther28.article Affirmative action must be based on income, not race December 28, 2009 BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA Ive never been more sure. If we want to make a real difference in meaningfully educating our children, we must let race and ethnicity ...
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• African Development Bank (AfDB) Job: Lead Gender Expert

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 155
  Position title: Lead Gender ExpertGrade: PL-2Position N°: NAReference: NAPublication date: 15/12/2009Closing date: 31/01/2010ObjectivesThe role of the Gender Climate Change and Sustainable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://myafricancareer.blogspot.com/ for Vacancies, Career Tips and Resume making ...
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• The Princess and the Frog — Disney’s gift to American blacks

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 632
  I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog . Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight.  The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful.  When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the ...
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• Reflecting on 2009

  
  Keith Kamisugi — Authority: 92
  I welcomed 2009 at the Hukilau in San Francisco.Kim Shinjo, Lauren Shinjo and I hosted a New Year’s Eve party there with about 40 of our friends, complete with a RockBand on the Wii, karaoke and all-you-can-eat plate lunch food. I had vowed at the end of 2008 not to spend the beginning of 2009 [...]
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• Nestle to Reopen Zimbabwe Factory After Pact with Government

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Swiss-based food giant Nestle has agreed to reopen its Zimbabwean operations after hammering out a deal with the government under which the Harare regime assured the company of the safety of its local staff in the wake of threats by President Robert Mugabe’s supporters. Nestle Zimbabwe shut down its Harare ...
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• State exerts pressure on Nestle to reopen

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 140
  Industry and Commerce Minister Professor Welshman Ncube By Our Correspondent HARARE – The fierce dispute following the decision by Nestle Zimbabwe to stop processing milk from First Lady Grace Mugabe’s Gushungo Dairy Estate took a new twist Thursday when the government exerted pressure on the embattled company ...
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• Nestle Shuts Down Zimbabwe Operations Amid Threats From Pro-Mugabe Groups

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Swiss-based food giant Nestle has shut down its Zimbabwean operation after succumbing to pressure from supporters of President Robert Mugabe who accused the firm of being a front for Western nations seeking to destabilize the nation’s economy. The state-owned Herald newspaper reports that Nestle Zimbabwe has ...
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• Nestle gives in to Zanu-PF and closes

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 140
  Saviour Kasukuwere: “If they don’t want to support local producers, tough luck to them.” By Our Correspondent HARARE – Embattled food giant Nestle Zimbabwe has finally given in to relentless pressure from government officials aligned to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party by indefinitely suspending ...
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• Recruitment scandel: Indian Governance widens Caste devide

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 114
  More than half a century after Scheduled Castes were constitutionally guaranteed reservation in government services, top posts in the central bureaucracy have constantly eluded them.The figures: not one out of the 88 central government secretaries is a Dalit. On other crucial posts, too, Dalit representation is ...
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• Bling of $teele

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 140
  Rakes in the honoraria like it would be illegal tomorrow.  Other RNC chairmen are crying foul, wondering why they aren’t raking in the bucks .  Gee, Sherlock, do I have to paint you the picture?  You can see in this blog post the reason.  Of course, since said former RNC chairmen include the likes of Jim ...
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• New farmers not paying tax to the State

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 140
  Temba Mliswa: “Banks in business to make money.” By Ray Matikinye BULAWAYO – Almost all black farmers who benefited from large tracts of commercial farmland under President Mugabe’s controversial land reform program are not paying any tax to the State because “a majority of the farmers are still ...
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• Latinos in D.C.: Obama appointing Hispanics at record pace

  
  Hispanosphere — Authority: 122
  By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ AP Hispanic Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation’s Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians. That won’t ...
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• Duke University Raping White Men Again

  
  Guy White: Making Sense On Race — Authority: 439
  Hat tip to Jay: You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors — 88 of them — signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, and whose president came close to doing the same would have learned some lessons. The facts ...
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• The latest Great Black Hope for conservatives

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 439
  Ah, politically correct conservatives…they may be dumb, but they’re persistent. They hate themselves for being white, and they hate even more the fact that their movement is entirely white, so they’re always desperately searching for a black hero to get behind to prove they’re not racist. A few months ago, ...
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