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Students, University employees, and union representatives met last night for a community forum that aimed “to address racism in the Harvard workplace.” The Harvard Coalition for Respect and Equality for Workers, the Student Labor Action Movement, Fuerza Latina, and the Latino Men’s Collective gathered in Emerson Hall for the event...
Those four workers, accompanied by six other Latino employees, took the stage to describe what they say are specific instances of racism experienced on the job. They said that Spanish had been banned in the workplace and that a coworker had sprayed their food with Fantastik cleaner...
Last year you compared George W. Bush with Bull Connor, the civil rights-era police chief whose name is synonymous with racism. Do you regret that? I have not chosen my words as carefully as I would want. It was my hope that, as Connor's act awakened Americans to racist policies that existed in the South, [after] the apparent lack of concern with Katrina, Americans would look at the question of poverty. I have been terribly disappointed...
While the entertainment world was snickering over Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic outburst and mug shot, a couple of hip-hoppers took a stand against prejudice. This fall JAY-Z and RUSSELL SIMMONS filmed a public-service announcement calling anti-Semitism "a long word for racism." The ad has been translated into four other languages, and will be broadcast in the U.S., Europe and South America in January. Simmons drafted his Def Jam pal to help out on the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding project because "Jay-Z's got a bigger mouth than anybody," says Simmons. "If he says...
...apolitical, non-violent PSG enthusiast, he was a member of the "Boulogne Boys," which along with the Supras d'Auteuil, Authentiks and similar fan associations are the most rambunctious, testosterone-addled groups that fill the Parc. The hard core of such groups are the "ultras" - hundreds of racism-spewing thugs who regularly provoke violence both home and away, with rival club fans and even with black and Arab supporters of PSG. Though that neo-fascist clique is small compared with the 48,500 people who fill the stadium on match days, its influence is often evident when thousands of "normal...