Race and Civil Rights

January 22, 2009 - More than fifty years after the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision, blacks and Latinos in U.S.

January 21, 2009 - Even as the nation celebrates the first African-American man to become president, around the country the economic recession continues to hit black men the hardest.

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January 16, 2009 - Thursday would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday, coming only a few days before the election of the nation's first black president. Indeed, the events of this past year are a testament to how far we've come in terms of racial relations in the United States.

January 15, 2009 - A coalition of human rights groups is calling the Bush administration's report submitted yesterday to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination grossly inadequate and full of omissions. In a press statement the coalition of groups stated:

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