Citations with the tag: RACE discrimination
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- Atlanta banks rejecting more black loans: Report.
// Jet; 3/6/89, Vol. 75 Issue 22, p8Reports that Atlanta blacks are rejected two to four times more often than Whites by banks for home loans.
- US sues New Jersey in discrimination case.
// Jet; 3/6/89, Vol. 75 Issue 22, p34Reports on a suit filed by the US Justice Department charging race and sex discrimination in hiring in New Jersey police departments.
- Hazing suit is settled at Charleston, S.C. academy.
// Jet; 3/6/89, Vol. 75 Issue 22, p14Reports that a case involving the hazing of a black cadet by five white cadets at the Citadel, a military academy, has been settled.
- Mary Berry cites racial unrest on U.S. campuses.
// Jet; 3/20/89, Vol. 75 Issue 24, p10Discusses racial unrest on college campuses due to reverse discrimination perceived by white students, as reported by Mary Berry of the US Commission on Civil Rights.
- Tennessee coaches quit Knoxville country club.
// Jet; 5/1/89, Vol. 76 Issue 4, p46Discusses the resignations of University of Tennessee football coach Johnny Majors and athletic director Doug Dickey, from a country club after the new black basketball coach, Wade Houston, could not be offered a membership.
- White S.C. restaurateur refuses to admit blacks. State NAACP files lawsuit.
// Jet; 10/2/89, Vol. 76 Issue 26, p28Reports on a suit filed by the South Carolina NAACP against a white restaurant owner who allegedly refused to admit blacks to his restaurant, and allegedly also made derogatory remarks.
- White Olympic star beaten; Defends Black teammate in racial attack in Germany.
// Jet; 11/15/93, Vol. 85 Issue 3, p18Reports on the beating of White American Olympic luger team member Duncan Kennedy by skinheads in Germany after he tried to defend his Black teammate Robert Pipkins. Claims of a racial attack on Pipkins by the skinheads; Arrest of five skinheads involved in the incident; Racial tensions in Germany.
- Citing bias against minister, blacks picket and close Korean hat shop in Los Angeles.
// Jet; 06/17/96, Vol. 90 Issue 5, p39Reports on the closure of the hat shop, Accessory Shop, in Los Angeles, California, due to protests by blacks for refusing service to a black minister, Lee May. Action by Korean American In-Suk Lee, owner of the shop.; Remarks by May.
- Whites-Only Provision In Will Is Problem At Nursing Home.
// Jet; 12/27/99, Vol. 97 Issue 3, p5Focuses on the complications surrounding an estate left to the Keswick nursing home for a building erected there to service white patients only.
- Adam's Mark Hotel Chain Pays $8 Million To Settle Discrimination Lawsuits.
// Jet; 04/10/2000, Vol. 97 Issue 17, p46Reports that the Adam's Mark hotel chain agreed to a settlement of racial bias lawsuits which charged that the hotels discriminated against Black guests in Florida.
- Europe's colour-blind prejudice.
Kudnani, Hans // New Statesman; 06/19/98, Vol. 127 Issue 4390, p18Discusses racial discrimination in Europe. Lack of legislation in Europe which protects minorities against discrimination; Comments from Ali Fathi, director of the Office against Ethnic Discrimination; Information on a racially-motivated attack committed on construction worker Noel Martin in...
- Lost in the race.
Ouseley, Herman // New Statesman & Society; 10/14/94, Vol. 7 Issue 324, p31Focuses on racial discrimination in Great Britain. Disadvantages experienced by black and minority ethnic people; Unemployment rates among blacks; Level of hopelessness; Educational achievements; Perception of the black people.
- A personal experience with racism.
Ouseley, Herman // Psychology Today; Dec86, Vol. 20 Issue 12, p46Racism thrives more in the institutions that protect, preserve, and promote it than in the individual human psyche, claims the author, who joined the NAACP at the age of nine because his black nanny was not allowed to attend the movies with him.
- Reflections on race.
Shipler, David // Tikkun; Jan/Feb98, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p59Opinion. Views on racial progress over the years while pretaining to racism against blacks.
- Action against apartheid continues.
Shipler, David // United Nations Chronicle; Jun93, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p36Offers an overview of the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid held in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Special Committee Chairman Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria; Security Council President...
- Break like the wind.
Cortez, John P. // AutoWeek; 9/4/95, Vol. 45 Issue 36, p12Reports on a former Los Angeles car dealership employee's filing of a racial harassment lawsuit against executives of the dealership for alleged intentional farting in his office. Comments of dealership attorney, Rob Bekken.
- Africville.
Cortez, John P. // Canada & the World Backgrounder; Apr96, Vol. 61 Issue 6, p17Relates the destruction of Africville, a mostly black community of 400 people on the northern outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Substandard living conditions as the basis of the destruction.
- East and west meet.
Cortez, John P. // Canada & the World Backgrounder; Apr96, Vol. 61 Issue 6, p23Presents a trade of discriminating opinions between the Chinese and Canadians. Complaints against Chinese' bad habits such as jumping queues; Statistics on racial discrimination against the Chinese.
- Global problem.
Cortez, John P. // Canada & the World Backgrounder; Apr96, Vol. 61 Issue 6, p30Details race discrimination in different parts of the world. Includes harassment of Asians in Zambia; Racial division in Mexico; Xenophobia in China.
- City eyes racial disparity study.
Czurak, David // Grand Rapids Business Journal; 07/27/98, Vol. 16 Issue 30, p3Focuses on Grand Rapids, Michigan officials' plan to conduct a racial disparity study. Expansion of a previous study of bias in the construction industry; Plan to examine another area of the city's business dealings; Key element for holding down the study's cost.
- It's time to stop blaming human bias for all economic disparities.
Sowell, Thomas // Enterprise/Salt Lake City; 7/17/95, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p15Comments that analogies on race discrimination have nothing to do with the real world. Existence of countries with long histories of bias and discrimination; Effect of discrimination on economic achievement.
- Key words.
Sowell, Thomas // Scholastic Update; 12/8/95, Vol. 128 Issue 7, p15Presents terminologies related to racial discrimination.
- Growing Up BIRACIAL.
Damio, Christy // Junior Scholastic; 9/20/2002, Vol. 105 Issue 2, p9Presents information on racial discrimination faced by the teenagers in the U.S.
- Social science and minority "set-asides".
Lanoue, George R. // Public Interest; Winter93, Issue 110, p49Discusses the role of the social science studies in protecting racial classifications. City of Richmond versus Croson; Minority business enterprises and their characteristics; Historical, anecdotal and statistical approaches used for disparity studies.
- Racial dicrimination in the allocation of distinction awards? Analysis of list of award ...
Esmail, Aneez; Everington, Sam; Doyle, Helen // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition); 01/17/98, Vol. 316 Issue 7126, p193Presents a study on racial discrimination in the allocation of distinction awards to consultants. Detailed information on the study; Methods used in it; Results of it.
- Race: Whose remedies?
Esmail, Aneez; Everington, Sam; Doyle, Helen // Christian Science Monitor; 10/30/96, Vol. 88 Issue 235, p20Opinion. Discusses the efforts to solve the problems of racial and ethnic relations around the world. Findings of the World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality; Trend of the United States's government to reduce government's role as a problem solver.
- I'm pessimistic.
Carney, Glandion // Christianity Today; 10/4/93, Vol. 37 Issue 11, p20Deals with the pessimism regarding the issue of racial prejudice. Materials on the issue; Failure of pledges by evangelical groups; Continued predominance of whites in evangelical organizations.
- Birmingham firehouse.
Carney, Glandion // Commonweal; 7/14/89, Vol. 116 Issue 13, p387Editorial. Comments on the implications of a racial discrimination suit in Birmingham, Ala.. Merit and hiring; Civil rights; The Supreme Court's stance.
- Egypt's dirty little secret.
BOYD, HERB // New York Amsterdam News; 2/17/2011, Vol. 102 Issue 7, p2The article reports on the existence of racism in Egypt and the efforts of the government to eradicate it.
- Doubts linger over racial attitudes.
Richardson, Nick // Bulletin with Newsweek; 6/13/95, Vol. 116 Issue 5974, p20Focuses on racial discrimination in Australia. Passing of a legislation called Racial Discrimination Act (RDA); Zita Antonios as the federal Race Discrimination Commissioner; Racial vilification as one piece of the anti-discrimination strategy that remains outstanding; Comments from...
- White supremacy.
Caplin, L. // Vogue; Oct88, Vol. 178 Issue 10, p314A report on a black woman named Brenda Patterson from North Carolina whose case for racial harassment has come before the Supreme Court. The Court's five justices are using the case to review the well-established law regarding the fundamentals ofracial equality. Looks at the history of the...
- Feds charge landlord with discrimination.
Caplin, L. // New York Amsterdam News; 03/08/97, Vol. 88 Issue 10, p3Reports on the accusations leveled towards Mark Jansma, and Robert Etheridge, owner and manager respectively of a Grand Rapids, Michigan apartment complex, of refusing to rent to African-Americans and families with children. Detailed information on the lawsuit; Comments from Acting Assistant...
- Discrimination cases are biz's wakeup call.
Caplin, L. // Crain's Small Business -- Chicago Edition; Dec96/Jan97, Vol. 4 Issue 10, p38Editorial. Focuses on filing of race discrimination lawsuits against corporations. Class-action lawsuit against Avis rental car outlets in North and South Carolina; What took place after Texaco Oil Company agreed to settle a two-year-old race discrimination lawsuit; How corporate leaders...
- Detroit blacks sue arts museum $20 mil. for bias.
Caplin, L. // Jet; 4/3/89, Vol. 75 Issue 26, p51Discusses a $20 million lawsuit which alleges racial discrimination against black employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Father: 'White Only' pool sign caused suffering.
Cornwell, Lisa // Chicago Weekend; 8/8/2012, Vol. 42 Issue 31, p3The article offers information on a hearing in Ohio Civil Rights Commission related to a sign "white only," posted by Jamie Hein, landlord of a property in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- White teacher suspended for allegedly writing on black student's face.
Cornwell, Lisa // Jet; 12/02/96, Vol. 91 Issue 3, p6Reports on the suspension of a Caucasian kindergarten teacher from a Charleston, South Carolina school for writing on the face of an Afro-American student, Nina Campbell. Reasons for the teacher's action; The intention of Campbell's mother to sue.
- `I have a dream'--30 years ago and now.
Eddings, Jerelyn // U.S. News & World Report; 8/30/93, Vol. 115 Issue 9, p10Recalls the March on Washington, an event that drew a quarter-million Americans to the Lincoln Memorial 30 years ago. Injustice of blacks eloquently addressed by Martin Luther King Jr.; How King emerged as the symbol of the black people's struggle; Gap between the quality of black and white life...
- Countering bias.
Duffy, B.; Knight, R. // U.S. News & World Report; 2/12/90, Vol. 108 Issue 6, p13Recounts the 30-year anniversary of the `Greensboro Four,' then-freshmen at North Carolina A&T College who began the integration of Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro.
- Portrait of a Latino without a Latin temper.
Failde, Augusto A.; Doyle, William S. // Across the Board; May96, Vol. 33 Issue 5, p14Comments on subtle indications of race discrimination in the business community. Experience of the author with interviewers; Race discrimination behind compliments of being articulate and being hardworking; Presumption of laziness or the presence of an accent.
- Strength in diversity.
Failde, Augusto A.; Doyle, William S. // Environmental Action; Summer93, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p9Reports on the racial composition of environmental organizations as not reflective of the diversity of the genral population. Study made by the Environmental Careers Organization; `Beyond the Green: Redefining and Diversifying the Environmental Movement'; Criticisms from John R. Cook, Jr.,...
- An American in India.
Cooper, Kenneth J. // Essence (Essence); Jun98, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p58Relates the author's experience of being racially discriminated during his trip to India. Indians' perception of Americans as white people only; Image projected of African-Americans by Indians; Stereotyping of African-Americans on the Indian subcontinent.
- Be proud of who you are.
Cooper, Kenneth J. // U+S+ Kids; Dec94, Vol. 7 Issue 8, p38Presents advice from students of the San Marcos Elementary school in Chandler, Arizona to kids experiencing racial discrimination.
- The Criminalization of "Black Deprivation" in the United Kingdom.
Kalunta-Crumpton, Anita // Social Justice; 2000, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p76The article is based on the observation of a number of drug trafficking cases before a London Crown Court by the author. She is concerned to study how the court is established as a site where racial imageries and divisions are reproduced and raises questions as to how courtroom discourse may...
- Hate is enough.
Carnegie, M.O. // American Spectator; Mar1996, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p82Discusses various issues of race discrimination. Race sensitivity; Anecdotes; Implications; Expectations.
- A question of leadership.
Platt, Steve // New Statesman & Society; 1/21/94, Vol. 7 Issue 286, p14Discusses the issue dividing Great Britain's anti-racist movements. Issue of black and minority ethnic self-organization; Leadership of the anti-racist struggle; Difference between main anti-racist organizations and small organizations; Anti-Racist Alliance's (ARA) 1993 annual conference;...
- Cape town leaders urge end to violence.
Platt, Steve // National Catholic Reporter; 9/10/93, Vol. 29 Issue 39, p8Reports on the call of church leaders in Cape Town for an end to violence in the province. Death of U.S. woman in racist attack; Statements from Archbishop Lawrence Henry and Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu.
- It's still all about race, stupid!
Maddox JR., Alton H. // New York Amsterdam News; 11/14/2002, Vol. 93 Issue 46, p13Focuses on the race discrimination practice in the U.S. against Blacks. Decision of disenfranchising Blacks in Florida taken by the Rehnquist court in December 2000; Political understanding between President Bill Clinton and former president George H.W. Bush; Analysis of the drawbacks of the...
- With 'brothers' like these, who needs enemies.
Maddox Jr., Alton H. // New York Amsterdam News; 11/21/2002, Vol. 93 Issue 47, p13Presents opinion of the author on treatment of blacks in New York. Protest of blacks against a white archivist's appointment to look after the African historical materials in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Presentation of the author in favor of the protest; Negligence of...
- Backtracking in Birmingham?
Turque, B.; Manly, H. // Newsweek; 7/3/1989, Vol. 114 Issue 1, p25Talks about claims of a pattern of racially motivated harassment against black officials in Alabama by federal authorities. Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington Jr. is meeting with U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and has asked for hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Charges;...
- Race comes to the fore again in Trinidad.
WILKINSON, BERT // New York Amsterdam News; 11/24/2011, Vol. 102 Issue 47, p16The article reports that authorities in multiracial Trinidad are investigating allegations by several parents and teachers that a school in the south Caribbean island is refusing to enroll children' of African origin because it exists mainly for the offspring of Hindus.
