11.02.2009 11:46 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s a piece from the New York Times about South Korea, where foreigners are greeted with racial slurs and face discrimination. For the first time, Parliament is considering legislation defining ethnic and racial discrimination and imposing criminal penalties.
“For most South…

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07.30.2009 12:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Not surprisingly, a CBS News/New York Times poll shows that black, whites and non-white Hispanics have widely different views of how they are treated by police.
CBS News reports on the findings:
As President Obama prepares to meet with African-American professor Henry Louis…

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06.01.2009 12:34 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s a new one in the debate over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Should we pronounce her name the way she prefers or should we expect her to use a more “Americanized” pronounciation? Here’s a blog…

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02.06.2009 2:11 pm
The National Hispanic Media Coalition released a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center report. The report, “Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio: Preliminary Report on a Pilot Study,” explores the role media play by studying three radio programs for evidence of…

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