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...fatally shooting six deer hunters and wounding two others, all but one of them unarmed, after they confronted Vang about trespassing; of first-degree murder; in Hayward, Wis. Vang, who shot four of the hunters in the back, said he acted in self-defense after one used a racial slur and another shot...
...wasted Gulf Coast looks to rebuild, scholars far from the rubble speculate that New Orleans—with a past marked by entrenched poverty, racial segregation, and a local government sometimes better known for corruption than progress—faces an uncertain future...
...images on television are a product of a combination of racial segregation and the concentration of poverty in the African American community,” says Stuart, a scholar of public policy. “Given that there is an opportunity, we should create a more integrated city and a city of more opportunity for people of all races and income...
...says he remains doubtful, though, as to whether the media coverage has portrayed accurately the racial aspect of Katrina’s impact...
...tweaking the national consciousness at pivotal times. The last foreign invasion on U.S. soil was repelled in the Crescent City in 1815. The Union had an important early victory over the South with the capture of the Big Easy in 1862. Homer Plessy, a black New Orleanian, fought for racial equality in 1896, although it took our Supreme Court 58 years to agree with him and, with Brown v. Board of Education, to declare segregation unequal. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formally organized in New Orleans in 1957. The problem is that we, all us Americans...