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Arizona's Gov. Brewer Signs Ethnic Studies Ban Into Law
May 12, 2010
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It's crazy times in Arizona, and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is going to make sure that no one forgets that. Yesterday, Brewer signed HB 2281 into law, a bill that prohibits schools from teaching classes designed to teach students of...

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SEIU To Take Up Immigration
May 11, 2010
RaceWire Blog
With the health care win behind them, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest growing union in the country, is now turning its sights on immigration, according to The Ballot Box, one of The Hill's blogs. Javier Morillo, SEIU's...

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With Miranda, Obama Moves Dangerously to the Right
May 11, 2010
RaceWire Blog
A day after Attorney General Eric Holder said he's working to amend the Miranda law for terrorism suspects, Obama's chief political adviser, David Axelrod, told CNN that the president is “open to looking at” a change to the rule. The...

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Senate's Sole Latino Joins Call for Arizona Baseball Boycott
May 11, 2010
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Last Thursday the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States, announced plans to boycott the state of Arizona. The campaign calls groups (including churches and corporations) and "ordinary citizens" across the...

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Obama's 2010 Drug Policy Tokes, but Doesn't Inhale Reform
May 11, 2010
RaceWire Blog
President Obama's strategy for combatting drug use and trade is out, and it's getting a welcome, if cautious, reception from reformers. As AlterNet's Phillip Smith wrote yesterday, "While still heavy on the law enforcement side, the first Obama national drug...

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Gulf Coast Fishermen Win Again Against BP's Unfair Worker Contracts
May 11, 2010
RaceWire Blog
Gulf Coast fishermen won a temporary restraining order in federal court yesterday against BP which will require the company to take responsibility for any chemical exposure fishermen face. Many out-of-work fishermen have signed up to help BP with the...

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Don't Call Me Racist and Other Arizona Lies
May 10, 2010
ColorLines
brewer_news.jpgWhat the state's new immigration law teaches us about the dissembling language of bias in the 21st century.
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1,000,000 FaceBook Users Support Humiliating Welfare Recipients
May 10, 2010
RaceWire Blog
The Facebook fan page "Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!," which was launched in December 2009, garnered more than 500,000 fans. Its goal, to pressure Saturday Night Live producers to let Golden Girls star Betty White host the show, became...

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Seattle Cop: 'I'll Beat the F---ing Mexican Piss Out of You Homey'
May 10, 2010
RaceWire Blog
A freelance photographer's video of Seattle police kicking a suspect in the head while hurling racial slurs surfaced last week, and is quickly drawing national attention. The video, shot on April 17, is certainly shocking. A group of officers from...

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Lena Horne, Legendary Singer and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 92 ‎
May 10, 2010
RaceWire Blog
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, the first Black actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio (MGM, in 1942) and the first Black actress to be popularly accepted in roles that were as glamorous as any offered to...

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