Posts Tagged ‘race’

Paterson Finds Friends at a Forum on the Budget

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

At a town hall meeting on the state budget, Gov.

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Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to say an office “has not been as vigilant as it should have been” on discrimination.

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A Charlie Chan Film Stirs an Old Controversy

Monday, March 8th, 2010

New screenings of a 1968 documentary, “The Great Charlie Chan,” have revived discussions of how Hollywood portrays Asian-Americans.

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Teachers Suspended Over Role Model Choice

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Three white teachers got three-day suspensions for picking O.

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Some Black Democrats Suggest Race Is Factor in Pressure on the Governor

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Some top black New York Democrats questioned whether calls for Gov. David A. Paterson either to resign or to transfer some of his authority to the lieutenant governor were prompted by a racial double standard

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To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A movement long viewed as white and Republican is trying to expand by arguing that abortion is intended to wipe out blacks.

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California Campus Awakens to Uneasy Race Relations

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Racial incidents at the University of California, San Diego, fed a simmering, some say much-needed, debate over race relations.

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Democrat Seeks Part of Spotlight in Florida Senate Race

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Representative Kendrick B. Meek, the leading Democrat in the race for a Senate seat, has struggled amid all the attention being paid to the Republican primary.

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Paterson, Before Meeting Obama, Hones Message

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The governor seemed determined, in his Washington appearance, to show that he would not be forced from the race for his office.

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A Blessing and a Burden

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The posthumous memoir of The Times’s first black managing editor.

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