Do pre-employment background checks amount to racial discrimination?
Is it wrong for a company to use pre-employment criminal background checks to weed out applicants? In some cases, the practice could amount to racism, at least according to Uncle ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 2:11PM
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WASHINGTON--The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely.
In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the ...
Posted Tuesday, January 4th 2011 at 2:01PM
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By Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors
January 3, 2011
Last spring began with no hint of any but the usual excitement of a new class. We were team-teaching a course on Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, writers who represent opposing literar ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 8:50PM
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In the version of history being taught in some Virginia classrooms, New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (instead of as a Spanish colonial one). The Confederacy included 12 states (instead of 11). And the United States entered World ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 3:18PM
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PHILADEPHIA--A discrimination lawsuit filed over three years ago against the Lower Merion School District by eight African American families will go to trial in November, according to a recent decision by Chief Judge Harvey Bartle III of the U.S. Dis ...
Posted Monday, January 3rd 2011 at 3:13PM
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Katie Couric, perhaps reflecting the rather goofy and insular attitudes of her class, is awfully worried about her fellow Americans hating on Muslims, more worried in fact than about Muslims of the Islamo Fascist variety hating on Americans.
Accor ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 5:48PM
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HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has condemned deadly New Year's Eve attacks in Egypt and Nigeria.
In a statement, Obama says the perpetrators of an attack on an Egyptian church have no respect for human life or dignity. He says those respon ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 3:21PM
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TEXAS--The late legislator Barbara Jordan—who is honored with statues at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and the University of Texas at Austin—will receive another honor in 2011.
A portrait of Jordan, who died in 1996, will be featured on a ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 3:04PM
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Happy 2011 Family!
May everyone be blessed with health, wealth, happiness, peace, motivation and success this year. ...
Posted Saturday, January 1st 2011 at 2:26PM
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1. San Diego, California
The city's official have tried curbing the deficit by increasing sales taxes, but residents of the city strongly oppose this and have voted it down.
San Diego already cut over $200 million over the past two years, so th ...
Posted Friday, December 31st 2010 at 3:21PM
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As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You):
The first day of the New Year should be a day of reflection, a day of prayer, a day of praise and thanks that we were blessed to make it through the last year, because there are so many of those that we know, ...
Posted Thursday, December 30th 2010 at 2:51PM
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MISSOURI--A Baytown teacher is suing a school district, saying that it terminated her employment due to racial discrimination.
Plaintiff Veronica Cooper filed the lawsuit in Harris County on Dec. 27, alleging that defendant Goose Creek Consolidate ...
Posted Wednesday, December 29th 2010 at 2:48PM
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On Tuesday, Dec. 28th a cross section of leadership from the Black coommunity staged a public demonstration and press conference against the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper at 350 N. Orleans near the Chicago River. African-American clergy, business ...
Posted Wednesday, December 29th 2010 at 2:43PM
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NEW YORK--White Plains resident 12-year-old Joshua Colas is not only playing the highly intellectual game of chess, but dominating it.
"Chess to me is like being an artist who is free to express his ideas through painting, instead I express it on ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 2:03PM
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A doctor on his morning walk, noticed this lady (pictured at right), sitting on her front step smoking a cigar, so he walked up to her and said "I couldn't help but notice how happy you look! What is your secret?"
"I smoke ten cigars a day," she ...
Posted Tuesday, December 28th 2010 at 1:26PM
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In a post made in February 2009, Mr. Solomon asked the question "Can ANYONE present verifiable proof Brother Elijah Muhammad(pbuh) had children w/other women BESIDES Sister Clara? If yes, plase present proof."
NOW WE AS NOI MUSLIMS WOULD KNOW IF S ...
Posted Sunday, December 26th 2010 at 6:11PM
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HONOLULU - Frustrated by what he sees as a never-ending campaign to undermine President Barack Obama, Hawaii's new governor says he plans to use his post to counter conspiracy theorists who continue to allege that the president was not born in the Un ...
Posted Sunday, December 26th 2010 at 4:34PM
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The following text is taken from a message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on July 16, 2000 at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., pastored by the Reverend Willie Wilson.
THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN:
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Posted Saturday, December 25th 2010 at 8:24PM
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LONDON: The World Cup finally made it to Africa in 2010 and plans were made to send football's showpiece to even more new destinations. After South Africa overcame dire predictions of security problems and half-empty stadiums to stage a World Cup tha ...
Posted Saturday, December 25th 2010 at 8:04PM
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The same jury that convicted a father-son team of planting a bomb that killed two police officers inside an Oregon bank has now recommended that both be put to death.
Bruce and Joshua Turnidge stood silently, betraying no emotio ...
Posted Friday, December 24th 2010 at 8:17PM
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All across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school that has accepted them -- even if their race, athle ...
Posted Friday, December 24th 2010 at 2:32PM
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