Word: racial
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...Racial discrimination is the main reason many black people can't get ahead these days...
...neighbouring African states, as well as Western powers, to create incentives for the next Zimbabwean “savior” not to end like this one. In Mugabe’s empire, Zimbabwe lives in arrested development: There is absolute official control of the public sphere, coercion of racial and cultural minorities, drowning of opposition voices, a reigning economic elite subjugating poor masses, and paranoid conspiracy theories about “Western imperialism.” It was not always like this...
This week, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. It got me thinking about the amazing power of an individual to inspire a groundswell of activism amongst everyday people—King led a true revolution in attitudes towards racial divides in America and spurred policy changes to address them...
...down opinion leadership is the Supreme Court’s 1954 “Brown v. Board of Education” decision calling for desegregation. The Supreme Court’s decision reflected and—likely more so—contributed to shifting public opinion on racial issues...
...tried to compensate for the absence of black people in her son's life. At night, she came home from work with books on the civil rights movement and recordings of Mahalia Jackson. Her aspirations for racial harmony were simplistic. "She was very much of the early Dr. [Martin Luther] King era," Obama says. "She believed that people were all basically the same under their skin, that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty...