Word: racially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trials and tribulations of 1993 actuallyhad its roots in 1991, when seven security guardsfiled suit with the Massachusetts CommissionAgainst Discrimination (MCAD) claiming a patternof racial and ethnic harassment by supervisors andfellow guards...
...implications are ominous. Distrust between the black and Hispanic members of crime-redden areas and the white police officers who patrol them runs deep. In the past weeks, tension has gripped these communities, and racial conflicts have escalated. And as protesters stormed City Hall last week with Diallo as their symbol, there was a feeling of desperation. More and more minorities are starting to live in fear--not just of violent crime, but of the officers who are supposed to prevent...
...racial views of the C.C.C. are repugnant to me, and I would never have spoken to the group had I known beforehand of its stand. It is absurd and irresponsible for anyone to suggest that one speech--during which I discussed only the impeachment process, as I was asked to do--implies that I in any way share or support the group's view. As the record shows...
...January Jasper removed a fence that had long separated blacks from whites in the local cemetery. But residents of Jasper are much more concerned about the living and the remnants of what they once believed was racial harmony. According to the Rev. Kenneth Lyons of the Greater New Bethel Church, there was trouble at the Jasper Middle School. Black students had planned to start a junior Black Panther party, and a white student had drawn a Confederate flag in the sand. The principal and church elders quashed the Panther idea and sent the white student home. Says Lyons...
...case in stories about the Civil Rights movement. The frustration felt by Travis' family and blacks in New Orleans is palpable, but it is tempered with the realization that safety requires them to eschew radical forms of protest. Passing Glory also highlights the struggle within Catholic Church against racial injustice. In one of the opening scenes, Father Grant announces that the Louisiana High School Athletic Association has again turned down St. Augustine's petition for integrated basketball games. Many people within the archdiocese are frustrated by segregation but do not know what action they can take to remedy...