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Study: blacks twice as likely as whites to be executed
A new report, released on Wednesday, shows that African Americans are twice as likely as white to receive death sentences, according to Mother Jones. The report, from University of Maryland criminology professor Ray Paternoster, examined the impact race had on sentencing in 504 cases. The findings are striking. From the…
Most HIV-infected youth are unaware they carry the virus
More than a quarter of new HIV infections in the United States strike young people aged 13 to 24 and 60 percent of those don’t know they’re sick, health officials said Tuesday. An estimated 12,200 youth were infected with HIV in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
White working-class men could decide Obama’s fate
WASHINGTON — A blend of young voters, women, African Americans and Hispanics propelled Barack Obama into the White House in 2008, but white working-class males could decide whether he gets to stay. The coalition that powered Obama’s historic candidacy four years ago is still broadly supportive of the president, but…
Coulter: It was ‘paradise’ after O.J. got off because ‘white guilt’ was over
Ann Coulter on Monday suggested that “we had paradise for a dozen years” after O.J. Simpson was acquitted for murder because African Americans stopped making white people feel guilty for racial unfairness. During an interview on Fox News, Coulter told host Sean Hannity that her new book “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery…
Study links resentment of African Americans to support for voter ID laws
Democrats and Independents who resent special considerations for African Americans are more likely to support voter ID laws, according to a study by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication. The study of 906 Americans found Republicans overwhelmingly supported voter ID laws regardless of their racial attitudes. Ninety-four percent…
Felon voting bans will disenfranchise a historic 6 million voters
Almost 6 million Americans will not be able to vote in November’s presidential election under tough state rules that have pushed the number of disenfranchised former convicted criminals to a historic high.A new study by the Sentencing Project estimates that a record 5.85 million people – some 2.5% of the…
Unemployment rises among African-Americans
June’s figures show unemployment rose from 13.6% to 14.4% – higher than the rate for Latinos and double that for white people. One of the most jarring figures in the labour statistics is a rise in unemployment among African Americans, from 13.6% to 14.4%, double the rate for the white…
Gingrich: I will tell NAACP to demand paychecks instead of food stamps
Speaking to a crowd at New Hampshire on Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that African Americans would rather collect food stamps than find employment. “I will go to the NAACP convention, and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps,” he said, according…
Fear Of A Black ISBN
I’ve been complaining about the rise African-American fiction sections since I worked at a Borders back in 2005. As Carleen Brice points out, there are actually two problems with the sections: the first is that they tend to send a signal to non-black audiences that These Mysterious Books Are Not…
The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
UPDATE: the openly gay president of People for the American Way, Kathryn Kolbert, has released a statement. It’s below the fold. You could see this coming, and this is what I’m talking about when you ignore the elephant in the room. Rod McCullom of Rod 2.0 blogs reports on the…
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