Its a fact taht many people want to avoid but tests are geared toward white students.Its not intentional but questions are centered on white experience and white culture. Thats a significant difference uin the world of college entrace exams. Where points matter, blacks often lose.
HOUSTON — This is a town that prides itself on being among the most diverse and tolerant cities in the country, but two recent cases of alleged police brutality against young black men have stirred anger among civil rights leaders and left some residents wondering just how far …
(CNN) -- A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she's bad because she's black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he's white. A white child says a black child is dumb because she has dark skin.
We have learned a lot about where we stand in terms of race relations and our collective memory since Governor Robert F. McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Marion, Arkansas (CNN) -- A traditional three-shot volley salute and the solemn sound of taps echoed across the black cemetery in the Delta flatlands of Arkansas, just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee.
One of the most pressing civil rights issues of the moment concerns the 2010 Census. Funding for hospitals, schools, roads, senior centers, emergency services and other infrastructure are all directly tied to the population counts produced by the Census Bureau.
Decatur, Georgia (CNN) -- LaShonda Durden had just given birth to her second child. She was two weeks back from maternity leave when her supervisor called her into her office. "You need to be trying to find other employment," her manager said.
Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock.
The worst thing about the CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association Walt Baker's silly, sick, demeaning depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama as a chimp ironically is not ...
Evelyn Rasco has been living a nightmare for more than 15 years. "It's torture," she sobs over the phone from her Pensacola, Florida home. "It tortures me on a daily basis."
Most of us have already known about the wealth gap along racial and gender lines, but now a very disturbing new study actually puts a bright spotlight on the problem. The new report by the Insight Center ...
African-Americans have always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the movies.
SAN DIEGO - Students on Friday took over the chancellor's office at the University of California, San Diego, to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library, the latest in a string of racially charged incidents.
(CNN) -- The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of black farmers who were discriminated against by the U.S. Agriculture Department will be eligible to receive $1.25 billion in a settlement, the government said on Thursday. U.S.
Officials are probing the off-campus 'Compton Cookout' and its Facebook invitation to see if they violated the university's code of conduct and whether sponsors should be disciplined.
When Darcelle 'Darcey' McGinnis opened her seafood café last fall she counted on her signature garlic blue crab dish and a little Southern charm as a way to satisfy her customers.
Black barbies are the next big thing among people who can afford themn. Mainly white people who need diversity in their childrens toys....
At a when blacks are experiencing twice the unemployment as whies, this story makes sense. Blacks continually have to work from beneath other minorities. That's what makes them "minoties". Dwaine
I've spent night and day for the past few weeks obsessing over the case of Heather Ellis, a 24-year-old college student now facing 15 years in prison after allegedly cutting in line at a Wal-Mart store.
Growing up in Crown Heights in the 1950's-60's was not only to be witness to the end of overt racial discrimination in New York City, but also to see the huge expansion of the black middle class. Black professionals had always lived in my neighborhood.
Her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, has been a best-seller for weeks and it's not yet in bookstores. She can attract a crowd of thousands. Critics often blow her off as unimportant, not serious, or vacuous.
There's always equality as long as blacks shed their blood.
We want our white leaders to look menacing and our black leders to look unagresive.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A pharmacist who shot a would-be robber six times was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday, and the prosecutor said only the first shot was justified.
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