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Search results for "ethnicity" ...
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From the Data, Educational Disparities Emerge
The analyses showed stark racial and ethnic disparities in student retentions, but states continue to plow forward with the policies, doing almost no analyses on their own. The racial gaps surprised even experts.
Tags: racial gaps; education
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The Purge
"Christians in Iraq are being hunted, murdered, and driven from their homes in a wave of ethnic cleansing perhaps more brutal than any in the community's 2,000-year history. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was home to more than a million Christians- a small but thriving minority, which Saddam Hussein protected. Under the American occupation, Iraq's Christian community, one of the oldest in the world, has been driven towards extinction."
Tags: Iraq; ethnic; religion; Christianity; military; Islam; militants; Middle East
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Searching For Jacob
While individualizing the story by centering on the search for a refugee named Jacob Arga, "whose village was destroyed as part of the ethnic 'cleansing,'" CBS News tells the story of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The reporters did find Jacob "in a refugee camp on the Chad border."
Tags: ethnic cleansing; Darfur, Sudan; refugees; genocide
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The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland
This book is the author's "account of a fifteen -year journey with the Kurds of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, beginning in 1991 in refugee camps in the mountains and ending in 2005 n the corridors of power in the Green Zone in Iraq. It is an intimate portrayal of an independence-seeking people.."
Tags: international reporting; Middle Eastern politics; civil war; Iraq; ethnicity; Saddam Hussein
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The Untold Story of Tulia, Texas
The author investigated the outcome of FBI and Department of Justice investigations into a 1999 drug bust that caught 10 percent of the town's African American population and was labeled as racially motivated. The author found several inconsistencies in what the media published and what the FBI and DOJ said happened in their reports. Settlements were handed out but the reports were never released.
Tags: racism; FBI; Department of Justice; drugs; Tulia; Texas; unlawful arrest; FOIA; Tom Coleman; ethnic cleansing
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Waiting for Justice
After the ethnic slaughter in the Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina's state court was going to take over trying war criminals charged with genocide, mass rape and torture. It has not happened. Millions of euros were spent to build a War Crimes Chamber, but not a single trial has been held, and hundreds of suspects live free among the same people they are charged with terrorizing.
Tags: war crimes; genocide; Balkans; terrorism; international court; Freedom of Information
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The Churchill Files
The Rocky Mountain News tells how University of Colorado-Boulder ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill ignited a major controversy when he called the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attack "Little Eichmanns." After calls for his firing, he was also accused of plagiarism and misrepresenting himself as having American Indian heritage. The News investigated and found evidence of academic misconduct through unauthorized use of others' material and language, inaccurate historical references in his scholarly work and no Indian ancestry.
Tags: Ward Churchill; University of Colorado; CAR; September 11; 9/11; Cherokee; corruption
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Breaking Down Hate Crime
McGinty used a hate crimes database obtained from the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force to analyze trends over time. She analyzed anti-ethnic crimes, hate crimes by type, hate crimes by location and by frequency to develop a comprehensive guide to hate crimes in New York. For instance, she found that Jews are the targets of most NYC hate crimes, and that most hat crimes occur in Brooklyn. She also found that incidence of hate crimes is down.
Tags: Computer Assisted Reporting; CAR; Mapping; database analysis; crime; police; race
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Immigrant Journey
Brown covered the story of immigration from Ecuador to Queens County, NY, the most ethnically diverse county in the nation, from both ends of the journey. He found that Ecuadoreans bring their prejudices with them, such as anti-gay opinions and a belief in the inevitability of corrpution in politics. But they also send money back home that keeps the country's economy afloat.
Tags: Immigration; Ecuador; INS; Central America; Latin America; New York City; diversity; poverty; economy
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New pluralism emerges in state
This two-day series by Lewis based on newly released Census figures examines the fact that four of California's five largest cities no longer have an ethnic majority. Pluralities of whites, Hispanics, Asians and blacks have replaced majorities. A sidebar by Hazle discusses the expected increase in political clout for Hispanics and Asians. A sidebar by Johnson describes the complaints of an advocacy group that says despite Asian Americans being the state's fastest growing group, public services have failed to accommodate them.
Tags: Census; demographics; minorities