Findings released by a left-leaning think tank today demonstrate minority students will soon out-number whites, but a dearth of minority instructors is holding back students of color who could benefit from teachers with similar backgrounds.
Another Texas anti-abortion rights group is stirring up controversy in the Northeast with marketing materials targeting African-Americans.
In late February, a New York City billboard by Austin-based Life Always
An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s controversial New York City billboard has been taken down, according to reports from various media outlets. Heroic Media founder Brian Follett is also behind the new Life Always group that put up the billboard targeting African Americans, as the Texas Independent previously reported.
An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s foray into the Northeast media market is causing quite the controversy. According to Texas Secretary of State records, Heroic Media founder Brian Follett is the registered agent for Life Always, the group that paid for a three-story high billboard that’s part of Follett’s campaign targeting More…
In the giddy, post-electoral haze in 2008, many people hoped and believed that the election of President Obama would herald a new, “post-racial” America. But a look at some recent economic statistics tells a different story.
While overall employment in March stood at 9.7 percent, some 16.5 More…
In the Great Recession, African-Americans experience disproportionately high rates of unemployment, and most stimulus funds have yet to make their way to hard-hit African-American communities. A new study shows another facet of the problem: Minority-owned businesses received a disproportionately small share of stimulus-related government contracts.
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This time in Memphis. In fact, city officials are so fired up that they’ve filed a lawsuit charging the mortgage-loan giant with discrimination. The New York Times reports:
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tennessee, marshaled a raft of statistics to argue that Wells Fargo offered one
The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high — likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But racially diverse it was not. And according to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), that’s the fault of the event’s timing and the media More…
Maybe I’ve just not been reading it, but this Martin Luther King Jr. Day seems to lack the phoned-in “King wanted black people to shut up and get over slavery already” columns that usually pepper conservative media. The Republican National Committee, for example, only said that it “strongly believes in More…
At our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer has an eye-opening piece about what could be the Republican Party’s plans to target its latest swing-state voter suppression efforts at those who have lost their homes to foreclosure.
The chairman of the Republican
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