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Poll: Racial Groups View Each Other With Mistrust

America, the proverbial melting pot, is boiling over with racial tension. Tension that may be impeding success for all racial groups, argue analysts from New America Media, the nation’s largest collaboration of ethnic news media.

December 12, 2007

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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA

As a senior honors student at Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, Calif., last spring, Lakea Youngblood gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, California’s two most sought-after public universities.

December 12, 2007

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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA

Will “outsourced” affirmative action prove long lasting?

December 12, 2007

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In Brief: UT Teaching Hospital Considers Turning Away Undocumented Cancer Patients

The University of Texas Medical Branch may stop offering cancer care to indigent and undocumented immigrants in order to cut costs; University of Buffalo researcher’s work leads to dismissal of Tulsa ‘Race Riot’ charges; West Virginia rethinks scholarship leave of absence.

December 3, 2007

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Just the Stats: Hispanics Perceive Major Differences in Race-Ethnic Relations in Suburbia

Differences in people’s perceptions on how they are treated by the court system, salespeople and suburban communities are apparent across racial and ethnic lines, according to a new poll recently released by Manhattanville College.

November 27, 2007

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Just the Stats: Hispanics Perceive Major Differences in Race-Ethnic Relations in Suburbia

Differences in people’s perceptions on how they are treated by the court system, salespeople and suburban communities are apparent across racial and ethnic lines, according to a new poll recently released by Manhattanville College.

November 27, 2007

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College Prof Enters Race for Maine Congressional Seat

FARMINGTON Maine A retired history and political science professor is entering the race for Maine’s 2nd District congressional race in hopes of unseating 3rd-term Democratic Rep. Michael Michaud.

November 20, 2007

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Former S.C. Gov. Robert McNair, Who Took Heat for Deadly Race-related College Clash, Dies

COLUMBIA S.C. Former Gov. Robert E. McNair, who helped guide the state through a turbulent era of race relations, including the deadly clash between state troopers and black college students known as the Orangeburg Massacre, has died. He was 83.

November 18, 2007

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Nebraska Vote Sought on Affirmative-action Ban

LINCOLN Neb. A battle over affirmative action will be fought in Nebraska heading into the 2008 presidential election, part of a California group’s multistate plan to bar race and gender as a factor in hiring and admissions decisions.

November 14, 2007

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No Place Like Home

Passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of “good things come to those who wait.”

November 14, 2007

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Blacks More Pessimistic About Racial Progress, Study Finds

WASHINGTON Growing numbers of Blacks say they’re worse off than five years ago and don’t expect their lives to improve, a study released Tuesday shows. Black pessimism about racial progress in America, according to the study, is the worst it’s been in more than two decades.

November 12, 2007

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School Districts Under Desegregaton Orders Confused By Latest Supreme Court Ruling On Diversity

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of White teachers with Black ones, they say.

November 11, 2007