Word: racism
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Once-routine complaints like racism and aggressive force were virtually non-existent. Crime was down. House masters and University personnel had little but effusive praise for Riley and his efforts...
...African-American student at a placid Vermont college is getting anonymous hate notes. The college responds, predictably, with race-sensitivity forums. Rebecca Gilman's new play, having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, could have been an easy diatribe against racism and the perils of political correctness. Instead, it's a complex, unnerving look at the way real people navigate between them both. Mary Beth Fisher gives a penetrating performance as the dean whose life is unraveled by the case. Gilman sets the play entirely in the dean's office yet creates a more convincing world offstage than...
Nelson Mandela?s miracle is complete. South Africans voted Wednesday without fuss or violence in their second free election, confirming their retiring president?s profound achievement of entrenching democracy in a country once wracked by brutal racism and civil war. At the same time, the fact that Mandela?s African National Congress (ANC) is expected to win a landslide victory is a sign of remarkable voter patience with a party that has not yet managed to deliver on its promise to provide jobs and homes for the impoverished majority. Rather than trying to unseat the ANC, opposition parties have...
...Street into familiar territory, where charges of racial discrimination have proliferated for years. "Wall Street is still very white male," says Ivan Smith, a prominent New York City employment-rights attorney. "There are tons of discrimination cases there." Just three months ago, Morgan Stanley settled a similar claim of racism by two black employees (the firm denied wrongdoing). For his part, Curry alleges he was paid less than his white counterparts and was often assigned menial work. Co-workers allegedly derided him and other African-American employees. After the magazine appeared, Curry says, people left messages calling him a "faggot...
...requested $300 from the Foundation topartially fund a BGLTSA event, the Queers of ColorPerform-A-Rama, intended to "talk about homophobiain communities of color [and] racism in the queercommunity...