National
Little relationship between immigration and unemployment, studies show
May 31, 2009The current economic crisis has intensified the tendency to cast immigrants as scapegoats for this country’s economic problems. Mexican and Latin American immigrants are portrayed as inveterate job thieves who take “American jobs” from “American workers.”...
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Ronald Takaki, 70, pioneer of multi-cultural studies
May 31, 2009Original source: BERKELEY — Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California's first Black history course, died...
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Is New York’s Mayoral race in the bag?
May 31, 2009NEW YORK—If you were to believe the hype, of which there’s no shortage, you would think that this city’s Republican-now-turned-independent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has the November elections in the bag. But how many people actually believe...
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Maryland residents hail Rep. Edwards anti-war stand
May 31, 2009Leaders of 23 Maryland-based organizations wrote to Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) thanking her for her “courage and foresight” in voting May 13th against the $96.7 billion supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan. The letter dated May 27th,...
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Palestinian Americans harshly sentenced
May 30, 2009DALLAS — With the selection of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court justice, Americans are hoping that the Obama era will put an end to the drift toward judicial tyranny here in the “land of the free.”...
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