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Baseball is diamond in the rough to black players at Gardena Serra
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on a cluttered street in Gardena, some very big and skilled athletes are hanging out on a concrete basketball court, bouncing around underneath rusted backboards and chain nets, acting out a typical inner-city scene, with...
Tags: Tennis, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball, California Interscholastic Federation
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UC Irvine student finds racist note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Slavery, University of California, Irvine, Colleges and Universities, Students
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Blatter 'appalled' by racism at Milan-Roma game
Reuters(Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter was "appalled" by racist jeering directed at AC Milan's Mario Balotelli during their Serie A match against AS Roma, he said on Monday. The game was stopped early in the second half at the San Siro on Sunday because...Tags: Social Issues
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UCI student finds note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Slavery, University of California, Irvine, Colleges and Universities, Students
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Italian football culture 'backward' says Milan coach
Reuters(Reuters) - AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri condemned Italian soccer culture as backward on Sunday after his team's match at home against AS Roma was interrupted by racist chanting from fans. Allegri also criticised the interruption, during which...Tags: Social Issues
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A LOOK BACK
May 12, 1958: The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD). May 13, 1963: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Punishment, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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Debating Israeli airport security and racial profiling
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.More than 40 readers sent letters to the editor in response to George Bisharat's April 28 Op-Ed article on a bill to include Israel in the U.S. visa waiver program. Bisharat, an American law professor and a pro-Palestinian activist who has traveled...Tags: Islam, Interior Policy, Ben Gurion International Airport, Social Issues, Religion and Belief
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Wet Seal to pay $7.5 million to settle race discrimination suit
Wet Seal will pay $7.5 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that accused the teen retailer of firing black employees to present a blond-and-blue-eyed front in its stores, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Trials, Discrimination, The Wet Seal Incorporated, Social Issues
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Ald. Maldonato plays 'do you know who I am?' and 'don't you have anything better to do?' cards on cops. Umbrage ensues
Change of SubjectIn the Sun-Times, Fran Speilman reports that Ald. Roberto Maldonado (26th) was pulled over by Chicago Police May 1 for pulling out and passing on the right a car that was waiting to turn left at the intersection of North...... -
A 'Passport' to the world of Druid Hill Park
A Roland Park resident has created a "passport" to Druid Hill Park. Janet Felsten, founder and director of the nonprofit group Baltimore Green Map, introduced the green-colored passport April 19 at a Baltimore Green Week kickoff party in the...
Tags: Kickstarter, Interior Policy, Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Interior Policy, Hurricanes, Science and Technology, Liberty Bank
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The Big Uneasy
The lavish Carnival banquets already are under way at Antoine's Restaurant, the parading clubs are finalizing their ornate processions and the reviewing stands are in place along St. Charles Avenue. Everything, in other words, looks to be ready for the...Tags: Corporate Officers, Lifestyle and Leisure, Ceremonies, Hurricanes, Festive Events
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