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Original Technorati articles tagged “race relations”

• in Lifestyle
  What the Trayvon Martin Case Says About Us
  What the Trayvon Martin tragedy says about us as a nation.
  by efrank / on Mar 26, 2012
• in Film
  Colored Frames: A Visual Art Documentary (2007) Looks at Art and Racism
  A look back at the last fifty years in African American art…an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists
  by missbobetier / on Feb 11, 2012
• in TV
  Meet American Hero Daisy Bates on Independent Lens February 2
  Daisy Bates, fearless civil rights leader, achieved fame as leader of the Little Rock Nine, but at what price?
  by missbobetier / on Jan 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “race relations”

 

• Fifty Years Forward: 100 Percent of Homicide Arrests In Birmingham Are Black

  
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  Alabama Browsing over this list of 25 homicides in Birmingham from January 1 to May 20, 2013 , I have determined that of the 15 arrests made so far this year, 100 percent of the suspects are African-American.
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• Explaining Common Criminals

  
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  Louisiana Here’s another key excerpt from Adrian Raine’s The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime  which explains why New Orleans, Chicago, and Birmingham are so plagued by “senseless violence” and “tragic shootings”: Note: The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain immediately ...
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• Racist Ex-Court of Appeal Judge speaks of Malay Backlash

  
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  May 12, 2013 Racist Ex-Court of Appeal Judge  speaks of Malay Backlash against the Chinese by Nigel Aw@ http://www.malaysiakini.com Former Court of Appeal Judge Mohd Noor Abdullah (left) today warned that the Chinese Malaysians must be prepared for a backlash from the Malay community for their ...
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• Here You have it, Mr. Jaafar: The Malapportionment of Blame

  
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  May 12, 2013 Here You have it, Mr. Jaafar: The Malapportionment of Blame by Tricia Yeoh (05-11-13)@ http://www.malaysiakini.com COMMENT In the past week, two Malay newspapers Utusan Malaysia and Kosmo! chose to have as their headlines controversial statements that could be considered incendiary in ...
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• 50 Years Forward: Congresswoman Terri Sewell Slammed For Failing To Promote Diversity

  
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  Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell, who represents Alabama’s 7th Congressional District , has been viciously attacked by a black radio host in Birmingham for not doing enough to explicitly promote black people over Whites: “Anthony also attacked Sewell’s commitment to racial diversity in selecting judges, ...
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• Lawrence Joel name to remain on coliseum

  
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  The name of Lawrence Joel, a Vietnam war veteran who earned the Congressional Medal of honor for saving the lives of at least 13 soldiers during a 24-hour firefight, will remain on both the coliseum facade and marquee, according to an agreement between the city of Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University. Biography ...
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• Memphis Students: There Will Be Blood

  
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  Tennessee H/T SNN SNN has found an amazing story out of Memphis in 2013: if George Washington Carver High School is consolidated with Booker T. Washington High School, the result could be a bloodbath: “MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) – Students fear that combining two Memphis high schools will set off a turf war ...
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• Polygamy in Britain

  
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  A congruence of comments on my last post , and media broadcast/articles on this subject resulted in my selection of this topic. Hawkgrrrl commented: “Interestingly, we are now in a position to have to tell converts in countries that allow polygamy that we don’t allow it as we spread to African and Asian ...
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• 50 Years Forward: 3 Years For Homicide In Jefferson County

  
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  Alabama In Bessemer, Shaneida shot her friend Meoshia in the head at the McDonald’s in 2011 … and got three years in prison for homicide in Jefferson County. Note: A month ago, OD noticed that it was customary for even the most vicious murderers in Jefferson County to get five years in prison for homicide , ...
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• Review: Dividing Lines (Birmingham)

  
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  Review: Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma Alabama Exactly 50 years ago, the Birmingham business community surrendered to integration as a result of pressure from the federal government and negative media publicity from the May 1963 ...
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• Talk Nation Radio: Highway Boondoggles Bypass Budget Crunch

  
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  Randy "Salz" Salzman is a transportation writer and researcher and the author of Fatal Attraction: Curbing Our Love Affair With the Automobile Before it Kills Us.   He discusses how highway construction boondoggles that are bad for health, heritage, the environment, and even the flow of traffic, have survived in ...
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• 50 Years Forward: Loveman Village Homicide

  
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  Alabama Birmingham is mourning its latest “senseless” homicide … a 76-year-old landscaper who was gunned down in southwest Birmingham while cutting the grass  near the Loveman Village public housing projects. Note: The lyrics to this music video go something like this, “Loveman Village area, fuck with ...
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• 50 Years Forward: 155 White Guys, the 1901 Constitution, and Birmingham’s Prosperity

  
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  Did 151 White guys in 1901 ruin Birmingham? Alabama David Sher’s “Comeback Town” has weighed in on Alabama’s 1901 Constitution . The 155 White guys who penned the 1901 Constitution are accused of creating structures which have crippled Birmingham in 2013: a concentration of power in Montgomery, a ...
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• Do Racial Set-Aside Programs Create Opportunities for Blacks? It Appears They Do.

  
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  The philosophical issue: Can discriminating in favor of African-Americans today recompense for discrimination against African-Americans in the past? Government set-aside programs for minorities have had a positive impact on the rate of business formation by African-Americans, conclude the authors of a new study, “ ...
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• Najib, the Reconciler, defends the racist Utusan Malaysia

  
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  May 8, 2013 Najib, the Reconciler, defends  the racist Utusan Malaysia http://www.malaysiakini.com (o5-o7-13) Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has defended today’s Utusan Malaysia front page report that asks the question “What more do the Chinese want?” “You blame Utusan but you don’t ...
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• Alabama’s 1901 Constitutional Convention

  
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  Alabama This excerpt comes from Wayne Flynt’s book, Alabama In The Twentieth Century : “Delegates set the tone for their proceedings by electing a corporation lawyer from Anniston, John B. Knox, president of the convention. Knox’s presidential address left no doubt about the chief agenda of the gathering: ...
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• Blacks vs. Mexicans In Georgia’s Onion Fields

  
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  Georgia As we explored last summer , free labor is unable to compete with slave labor in certain kinds of agriculture : Note: What incentive do black people in Georgia have to compete with Mexicans in the onion fields? “VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused ...
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• Straight Talk on Race Relations

  
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  MLK dreamed we would judge each other, on character rather than race. Also read: Bill Richardson Says Ted Cruz Just Isn’t Really Hispanic
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• An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America #17

  
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  The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" was released with this illustration to deliberately conceal the race of the performers (1961).
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• 50 Years Forward: Flight Delays In Birmingham

  
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  Alabama OD’s probe into the history of Birmingham since 1963 continues : “It was during that period that the Birmingham airport began delaying all air traffic for a brief period just before and just after midnight on New Year’s Eve; there were too many stray bullets in the air.”
  2 weeks ago

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