Word: blacks
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...When blacks and Hispanics across the U.S. read recent headlines about the practice of "racial profiling" by state troopers in New Jersey, it didn't strike them as an obscure practice in a far-off state. It sounded like their own experience. They have long believed it's no coincidence that so many of them have been stopped and frisked by police for no apparent reason. African Americans even coined a term for their supposed offense: DWB, for Driving While Black...
Across the U.S. nonwhite travelers tell similar tales of police harassment. According to the A.C.L.U. report, the stretch of Interstate 95 from Florida to New York is especially notorious. On I-95 in Maryland, blacks made up 17% of motorists but 73% of those stopped and searched. Last year a class-action suit accused Maryland state troopers of targeting black drivers. In Illinois, where Hispanics are just 8% of the population, they represented 30% of the drivers stopped by police. "It's really deeply ingrained behavior that is going to be hard to change," says Reggie Shuford, an A.C.L.U. staff...
...April, Radcliffe merged with Harvard and relinquished all responsibility for undergraduates. The move left RUS and groups such as Radcliffe Rugby, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW) and Women in Science at Harvard and Radcliffe uncertain about their funding--and even their names...
...Black Students Association (BSA) struggled to define its own duties and those of its sibling organizations, ABRW and the Black Men's Forum (BMF). The BSA handed over its historic cash cow--the Harvard-Yale weekend dance--to the two groups, citing the need to let their funds grow along with their memberships...
...Harvard two years ago, Mayer has expanded the Crimson Cash service, which he oversees, to include use at the Coop, the Technology Product Center and library copy machines. He implemented the fly-by lunch service and brought changes to the floundering Loker Commons, which is now in the black...