Word: racial
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Illinois Senator Barack Obama easily captured a majority of Mississippi's 33 Democratic delegates Tuesday as his one-on-one battle with Hillary Clinton race verged once again on deeper racial turmoil. With 90% of all precincts reporting, Obama led Clinton in Misissippi by a margin of nearly three...
...number of students graduating from high school starts to decline, admissions offices—including at Harvard—have said they will step up outreach to groups of students who have traditionally applied to college in lower numbers, such as low-income students and racial minorities...
...National Front alliance has been in power. Even opposition leaders admitted they wouldn't win control of the federal government. Instead, most viewed the voting as a referendum on the leadership of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose popularity has been hurt by higher living costs and rising racial tensions in this multiethnic nation...
...this sly, wafting doubt is the greatest injury done. When perfectly able minorities must constantly disprove a default presumption of being unqualified for their jobs—that is a problem. When, to remedy racial and gender barriers in society, we conjure up new negative associations—that is a problem...
...left the theater not questioning Father Flynn’s guilt, but rather the sister’s steadfastness. Her poise and confidence overwhelmed the other characters, and her riveting performance almost translated the parable into an exploration of one woman’s rigidity. The atmosphere of racial and religious tension is slightly undercut by this emphasis on a single woman’s struggle for justice within the patriarchal church. But the cast fulfills its promise, leaving the audience unsure if there has been any foul play. The drama is streamlined, and the shifting allegiance of Sister James...