December 2014
December 23rd, 2014
Written by Jeffrey Collins in Race Relations, Setting It Straight with 1 Comment
The youngest black boy to be executed has been deemed as a great miscarriage of justice. More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in the killings of two white girls in a segregated mill town, a judge threw out the conviction, saying the state committed a great injustice.
George Stinney was arrested, convicted of murder in a one-day trial and...
December 23rd, 2014
Written by Cain Burdeau - ... in Discrimination Cases, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Blacks win a settlement for a housing discrimination case where they were restricted from renting in new areas that had been rebuilt following Hurricane Katrina. A settlement has been reached in a long legal fight over St. Bernard Parish housing policies that allegedly restricted black people from renting in the parish as it rebuilt after catastrophic damaged caused by flooding from Hurricane...
December 23rd, 2014
Written by Jacques Billeau... in Race Relations, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio will end his popular and notorious business raids as pressure continues to mount on his office’s arrest tactics and practices. The Arizona sheriff known for crackdowns on people living in the country illegally is giving up his last major foothold in immigration enforcement efforts that won him popularity among voters but gradually were reined in by Washington and the...
December 10th, 2014
Written by The Associated Press in Race Relations, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Mario Balotelli is being seen as racist and Anti-Semitic for a picture and text he posted on Instagram. Balotelli has been charged by the English Football Association on Friday for posting a message on a social media site that is criticized for being both racist and anti-Semitic.
Balotelli uploaded on Instagram a picture of the video-game character Super Mario, with whom the Italy international...
December 10th, 2014
Written by Jamey Keaten in Race Relations, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
France will be compensating thousands of Holocaust survivors and family members in the United States and elsewhere. They will be entitled to compensation from a $60 million French-U.S. fund - reparations to those deported by France's state rail company SNCF during the Nazi occupation.
As part of the deal, the U.S. government will work to end lawsuits and other compensation claims in U.S. courts...