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...Rights Act violations, most of which occurred in the 1970s. The Voting Integrity Project (a non-profit, nonpartisan civic group) has already filed a lawsuit against the state in the hopes of blocking the primary on the grounds that minorities are less likely to have Internet access than their whiter, and ostensibly more affluent, counterparts...
Computers are cheap. Internet access is available almost everywhere. So why does the online world get richer and whiter every year? The third in a series of Commerce Department reports examining the "Digital Divide" finds that although more blacks and Hispanics are booting up and logging on than ever before, they?re still getting connected at a far slower rate than their white counterparts, with the gap between white and minority households online growing by six percent. "This is a problem not only for the minorities who are missing out, this is a problem for the Web," says TIME technology...
...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...
...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...
Spontaneously between numbers. band members broke out into a "how to make any song country" lesson. Countryfying various tunes like "We Ain't Gonna Take It," "Billy Jean" and "Whiter Shade of Pale," Pat laughed, "This is the kind of [stuff] we listen...