Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Louisiana Ordered to Provide Voucher Data to U.S. Education Week 2014-4-09 Mark Walsh, Contributing Writer A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to provide annual data to the federal government on the students participating in the state’s private school voucher program. The April 7 order by U.S. District Judge Ivan R. Lemelle of New Orleans appears…

  • Bill to recognize Nansemonds passes committee Suffolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-04-02 A bill that would extend federal recognition to the Nansemond Indian Tribe and five others in Virginia passed the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The tribes, which also include the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock and Monacan, are officially recognized by the…

  • Bung Mokhtar: Mixed-race Malaysians will benefit from racial voting Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-04-01 Zurairi AR UALA LUMPUR, Apr 1 — Malaysians with mixed-race parentage will benefit the most from voting along racial lines as they will have more than one representative, Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin said today. The Barisan Nasional…

  • Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…

  • Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…

  • Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Gender – Dorothy Roberts University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Friday, 2014-03-07, 17:00-19:30 PST (Local Time) Join us for a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.  Lecture…

  • After first-term caution, Obama dives deeper on race USA Today 2014-02-27 Aamer Madhani, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — During his first term, President Obama waded gingerly into the issue of race, mindful of the historic nature of his presidency while at the same time downplaying its significance. With a couple of exceptions — criticizing a…

  • President Obama calls for minority youth outreach programme BBC News 2014-02-27 US President Barack Obama has called for a national campaign to improve opportunities for black and Hispanic boys and young men. Called My Brother’s Keeper, his new initiative aims to overcome the socioeconomic conditions keeping such youth from thriving. The White House said businesses…

  • Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperwork The Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-02-24 Ushar Daniele PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 — The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively. he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one…

  • On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts Bluestockings Magazine Brown University February 2014 (2014-02-14) Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has published a range of groundbreaking articles and books analyzing issues…