Word: racial
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...national press when it became the first city in the nation to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the council has routinely passed resolutions condemning the war in Iraq. In 1989, the council passed a resolution prohibiting the city from financially supporting companies complicit in South African and Namibian racial segregation. Last month, in a move that activists said reflects the impact of the growing divestment movement on the Sudanese government, Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed posted an open letter on the government’s website calling for the end of divestment because of its “negative...
That second leaflet went on to say, “many churches today play a dangerous role in favor of racial integration, and, especially in certain U.S. sects, in promoting Zionism,” and warned that “interracial sex is unsafe...
...confidential until the trial. The circumstances of the crime—particularly, the many ways that power dynamics manifested themselves—are relevant because rape is done for power, and the national media is doing its job well by reporting on them. These complicating factors are, for example, racial issues (the woman was black, and she claims her attackers, all white, yelled racial epithets while raping her), class issues (the lacrosse team from a privileged private school paid to use a house for a party and paid a single mother from a state college to dance at the party...
...Institute CEO Ron Forman. But Nagin, an unknown cable company executive before he became mayor, was running fifth in the polls when he won last time. ?Truth is, the campaigns don?t have polling data,? says Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and demographer in Shreveport. "If there is a racial aberration in voting, all bets are off. If a lot of African Americans turn out, Nagin runs stronger. If the African Americans don?t get their act together - and the Democratic National Committee and Jesse Jackson are very worried about that - then Nagin runs fourth or fifth...
...numbers reveal that only 41 out of the 64 teams (the University of Pennsylvania, which does not release its graduation rates, was not included) manage to shepherd at least 50 percent of their students to a college degree. A racial gap is also apparent. Thirty-eight teams saw 70 percent of their white players graduate compared to just 21 teams for black students, the study found...