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• Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America’s Suburbs

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 166
  From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As a media-stoked panic about immigrant youth gangs flared across the U. S. in the 1990s, national violent crime rates were actually plummeting, suggesting that reports of internationally networked Central American gangs invading idyllic American suburbs masked more than ...
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• No Jews Allowed

  
  the Dry Bones Blog — Authority: 595
  Obamas plan for Peace on the West Bank is not new. The Nazis invented two words for it. "Judenfrei" refers to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish citizens. "Judenrein" (literally "clean of Jews") was also used. This had the stronger connotation that the area had been cleansed of Jewish blood. -more -Dry Bones- ...
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• From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Claudette Colvin, who resisted unfair treatment on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks, lived an unheralded life until a recent book highlighted her story.
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• Lou Dobbs: Can he take lessons from a reformed racist to win a Senate seat?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: People , Media Lou Dobbs is mad as hell, and hes not going to take it anymore. And now that hes left his bully pulpit at CNN, hes hoping the masses will join him with their pitchforks and torches. Dobbs wants to challenge Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, as a third-party candidate for ...
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• Theres Still Hope

  
  UrbanFaith.com — Authority: 118
  A year after Barack Obamas historic election, his progress report is incomplete at best. But his presence in the White House has already brought long overdue healing to the African American imagination -- and potentially to many others. It has now been a year since that fateful night in November 2008 when ...
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• Alabama Concerned About Charter School Segregation: Massachusetts Goes Full Ahead

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 138
  As the pressure to bow to the bribes heats up in the Obama/Gates/Broad Race Over the Cliff, states like Alabama without charter laws are feeling the pressure from the Oligarchs to open their doors to "innovation." So far charter schools have brought us innovations like more scripted teaching, uncertified or ...
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• Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 542
  By Laurie Lisle Wesleyan University Press Few phrases in the English language conjure up more vivid fantasies than the words all-girl school . The education of women—especially in an all-girl environment—is highly political. The ACLU has made the argument that single-sex education has not proven to be ...
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• Are there common rights of humanity?

  
  Sand gets in my eyes — Authority: 120
  When it comes to looking at cultures other than our own, we are all afflicted with what human rights scholars call Normative Blindness , the belief that what we know and accept as normal is the way things ought to be. I know for sure that I suffer from Normative Blindness. I’ve never hidden the fact that, for me, ...
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• How Real Estate Investors Get It Done – Tax Strategy

  
  BawldGuy Talking — Authority: 417
  The most common reply I hear from folks calling me is, “I didn’t know that was possible.” Or something similar. It all goes back to the root of successful investing, which is doing things on Purpose — Purposeful Planning . One of the main factors in any Plan is how taxes/tax shelter blend into the big ...
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• Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans

  
  City Room — Authority: 789
  The Furman Center at New York University found that the probability that individual borrowers receive risky, high-cost subprime loans increases depending on the racial composition of the neighborhood or metropolitan area where they live.
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• New districts lead to new segregation?

  
  Chalk Talk — Authority: 100
  A new form of school segregation has been growing in this country, suggested a study published in the fall issue of Law & Social Inquiry , the journal for the  American Bar Foundation that features analysis on law, economics and various other subjects. The study posits that the creation of new school ...
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• Khartoum clamps down for Algeria-Egypt showdown

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  Sudan’s security forces threw a tight security cordon around Khartoum to prevent violence between fans of Algeria and Egypt, who clash on Wednesday for a place at the World Cup football finals. Thousands of rival supporters from Cairo and Algiers have invaded Khartoum, a rare venue for such a showdown in ...
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• Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 649
  The culture wars have begun again—with a vengeance (not an exaggerated word if you’ve heard the hysterical and ugly rhetoric last week). Yep, it’s about abortion again and, sadly, in relation to the health care reform bill moving through the…
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• Latest Savage Nation Appearance: Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever in Tucson

  
  SelwynDuke.com — Authority: 123
  Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever in Tucson-11/10/09
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• What the Bayou Saw by Patti Lacy

  
  Kitten Come From Eggs — Authority: 100
  This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing What The Bayou Saw Kregel Publications (March 24, 2009) by Patti Lacy ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Though Pattis only been writing since 2005, she thinks her latest profession of capturing stories on paper (or computer files) will ...
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• Slavery in America — Part 10

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  President Grant was willing to suspend habeaus corpus to insure the 15th Amendment, establishing voting rights for freedman.  He later signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which entitled equal treatment in public accommodations and jury selection. The Ku Klux Klan was vigorously prosecuted. There were 1000 ...
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• Letter: The Framers’ Intent

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  To the Editor:.
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• ‘Claudette Colvin’ – Phillip Hoose’s Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Honors a Teenager Who Wouldn’t Give Up Her Bus Seat

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 468
  “It’s my constitutional right!” CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice. By Phillip Hoose. FSG/Melanie Kroupa, 133 pp., $19.95. 10 and up. By Janice Harayda Claudette Colvin brings down from the attic of American history a life that deserves a place on its front porch. The judges for the National Book ...
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• Segregation in Runescape?

  
  Runescape Reader's Digest Blog — Authority: 126
  Its simple. I dont like the idea of high level only worlds. I know, many players were asking for it for a long time - finally Jagex gave in and decided to try. I hope the experiment fails. Yes, we have guilds which require certain levels to access, it makes sense, one need to get skilled in something to get into a ...
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• “Misterioso, a journey into the silence of Thelonious Monk” a play by Stefano Benni.

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 491
  When and where did you first hear the piano and compositions of Thelonious Monk? On vinyl? ABC Radio? Was it in Kym Bonythons lonely jazz record store or art gallery in Adelaide, or maybe it was in concert in Melbourne? Perhaps you first saw him on the cover of Time magazine? Where ever it was, the memory will still ...
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