After recent incidents of violence against minority Christian community in India, including burning of churches, a new wave of violence agaisnt Muslims has erupted in the country. "Hindu extremists in southern India killed six members of a Muslim family by setting fire to...
Although Muslim bashing is intensifying across the world for deeds of a handful of extremists, the radical elements exist in all societies and among followers of all faiths. The Islamic states including Pakistan are often maligned for alleged violations of rights of the...
According to a research conducted, Asian women top the best-off group while urban blacks women and men represent the worst off. In addition, women life expectancy for US women has also declined.
This is a follow-up to this article.This letter was written by the Miami-Dade College Medical Center Campus President, addressed to the would-be midwifery students of the fall 2008 class: ""...the Fall 2008 Midwifery Program class was contingent upon a minimum of 25...
Prejudice and racism exists in China, but it seems to be emplifying during the Olympics. Many ethnic minorities in China are finding it harder and harder to stay in the country, and many are making their final...
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Yesterday was International Day Against Homophobia- I learned about it through the article below: an event in Havana, Cuba.I thought this was pretty big news. A symposium on same-sex health issues, featuring blood...
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What does the American Dream mean to you? For many it is the opportunity to have a home, successful career, and the ability to send their children to the best schools possible. The financial ability to do better than our parents did. We are a society of accomplishments. The...
Since we are rapidly becoming a majority-minority country, why do we still label ourselves with prefixes?African-AmericanHispanic-AmericanJewish-AmericanPolish-AmericanGreek-AmericanItalian-Americanwe can on for days...
"Nothing is more distressing to busy white people than the idea of individual opinions among minorities, especially potentially violent, perpetually dissatisfied minorities like blacks and Latinos, but especially blacks. They are all dissatisfied about different things then...
"Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent
How many Presbyterian Pakistanis live in Ireland? Are there Chinese-born Travellers? Widowed teenagers? Most pressingly, how many Lithuanian immigrants live in semi-detached houses...
"Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds.
Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone...
The NDP, or New Democratic Party, is a left-leaning provincial party in British Columbia. Their new policy to ensure gender equality and minority representation within the party is causing a stir."VANCOUVER -- B.C. New Democrats quickly came under Liberal fire yesterday for...
Economic challenges face minorities now more then ever. Lack of financial education is the greatest setback for any groups economic advancement. As minorities struggle to move forward in the financial landscape, it is most important that they attain a better knowledge of...
Part TWO of a FIVE-part series on Iraq's ethnic minorities. • Go to Part One: Iraq's Yazidis -- A Minority within a Minority • See Part Three: Iraq's Assyrians -- Four Beleaguered Christian Minorities• See Part...
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Contact: Ad-Hoc Committee Against Racism and Fascism,
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"Hammerskin Nation" Racists Will Meet with Opposition
People from All Backgrounds Unite Against White...