racism
Justices review life terms for teen offenders
November 10, 2009A majority on the Supreme Court appeared to signal changing the use of life prison terms without parole for teenagers whose crimes do not involve a murder.
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Obama to sign hate crimes bill
October 28, 2009Eleven years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder because he was gay, President Barack Obama will sign the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law this afternoon.
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‘District 9’ — profoundly racist
October 23, 2009What D. W. Griffiths did to U.S. history in his technically magnificent but thematically racist "Birth of a Nation," Neill Blomkamp does to Africa in the profoundly racist "District 9."
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Detroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black
October 21, 2009Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.
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Stores pull immigrant-slurring Halloween costume after protests
October 21, 2009After a nationwide campaign by immigrant advocacy groups calling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume tasteless and offensive, several major retail stores and Web sites have pulled it from their racks.
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