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Group Wants Local Preference In CA Contracts
January 27, 2011
In underserved communities where the jobless rate is between 21% and 45%, it makes no sense for the county to award multimillion dollar contracts to outside companies. ...
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Women And Minority Preferences Under Scrutiny
August 19, 2010
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CA Supreme Court Weighing Minority
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May 05, 2010
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Obama Health Care Bill Contains Race Preferences
July 23, 2009
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Supreme Court Dings Race Preferences...and Sotomayor
June 29, 2009
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Election Day Brought Conservative Victory Against Racial Preference
March 09, 2009
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Peer Pressure Puts Black Girls At Higher HIV Risk
September 07, 2011
In a recent study involving 64 African American adolescent girls ages 14 to 17, researchers found that up to 59% of the study’s subjects experienced sexual abuse that included threats, verbal coercion, condom coercion and physical violence. Of the 64 interviewed, unwanted sex made up 30% and 9% respectively of the abuse cases. ...
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Study: Doctors May 'Learn" Bias In Med School
September 06, 2011
New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students -- just like the general American population -- may have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser health care of other races. The research findings, to be published tomorrow in the Journal ...
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Obama Talks Higher Taxes In Address To Latino Group
July 22, 2011
Black Radio Network will be carrying the webcast of the National Council of La Raza's annual convention live from Washington as President Barack Obama will join national leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. The conference will be held July 23–26 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel ...
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Minorities Entering Nursing Homes In Record Numbers
July 18, 2011
A new Brown University study suggests a racial disparity in elder care options in the United States. In the last decade, minorities have poured into nursing homes at a time when whites have left in even greater numbers. At first blush the analysis suggests that elderly blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are gaining ...
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MI Vows To Appeal Affirmative Action Ruling
July 13, 2011
The debate over racial preferences in higher education admissions could be headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a ban on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which was approved by the state’s voters in 2006. ...
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Do Dark Skinned Black Women Get Harsher Sentences?
July 11, 2011
Colin Powell said it, Sen. Harry Reid hinted at it about President Barack Obama, and black folks have known it for hundreds of years. There are advantages to being a light-skinned black person in the United States. Online news magazine The Root reports, research on those advantages isn't new ...
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Asian American Navigating The College Admissions Process
July 05, 2011
The existence of obstacles to Asian Americans gaining admission to elite universities stems from the perception that, as a group, they have performed relatively well in higher education. From 1976 to 2007, the percentage of Asian American college students increased from 1.8 to 6.7 percent ...
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STUDY BLASTS CIG BLACK MARKETING
June 24, 2011
A new Stanford University School of Medicine study shows that tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes at stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students. Study lead researcher Lisa Henriksen, PhD, of the Stanford Prevention Research Center found Tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price ...
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Education Doesn't Increase Odds That Minorities Play 'High-Status' Sports
June 03, 2011
Whites disproportionately undertake facility-based exercise, blacks tend toward team sports and fitness activities. ...
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CA Redistricting: What's at Stake for Blacks
May 23, 2011
California, along with the rest of the states, has to re-configure four category of legislative districts in accordance with the new census numbers. ...
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Researchers Say Women Expect Lower Pay
May 23, 2011
"These results may indicate that women are just more realistic about their salary expectations." ...
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HEY HOLLYWOOD, WHERE'S MINORITIES?
May 12, 2011
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Hospice Care Linked To Local Area's Household Income
May 10, 2011
The building of community hospices is often funded through charity and this is one possible explanation for the disparities seen in the study. ...
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Immigrant Groups Eat High-Calorie American Meals To Fit In
May 03, 2011
“If immigrants and their children choose unhealthy American foods over healthier traditional foods, this process of fitting in could lead to poorer health." ...
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GLAAD Joins Calls For Congresswoman's Resignation
May 02, 2011
Kern's comments came on the topic of affirmative action and African Americans in prison. She suggested they "didn't want to work hard in school." ...
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Higher HIV Risk In Black Gay Men Linked To Partner Choice, Risk Perception
May 03, 2011
These men show a clear preference for masculine men, while also equating masculinity with lower HIV risk. ...
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Blacks More Willing to Exhaust Financial Resources for More Cancer Care
April 26, 2011
People in minority groups, especially black Americans, are more willing than their white counterparts to exhaust their personal financial resources to prolong life. ...
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Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
April 19, 2011
"Black people were hired to hand out petitions for the civil-rights initiative in Michigan. It was disingenuous. It was not the proper way of doing things." ...
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NJ Man Sentenced For Threatening Employees Of Latino Rights Groups
April 19, 2011
Johnson admitted that he emailed numerous threats to the victims to prevent them from aiding and encouraging Latinos. ...
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Minorities Born With Heart Defects Have Higher Death Rate
April 20, 2011
The new study adds to a growing body of evidence that minority infants with specific types of heart defects have poorer survival rates in early childhood. ...
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NYC Mayor Breaks Ground On Harlem "Promise Academy"
April 06, 2011
“This project is emblematic of the public-private partnerships that are essential to transforming education and communities." ...
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"Match Day" For HBCU Meharry Students
March 18, 2011
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Training Minority Doctors A Priority For Georgia
March 17, 2011
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Broadband Adoption: Not One Size Fits All
March 14, 2011
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