By John Harper, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune June 13, 2013 at 9:42 PM Forty-four Orleans Parish inmates, for years denied almost all close contact with family members, sat just feet away from parents and other relatives waiting to congratulate them Thursday. The occasion: The 23rd class was graduating from the Sheriff’s Office’s Re-entry and Rehabilitation [...]
By Stefani Camille WWW. Streetgangs.com Staff Writer May 13, 2013 Online racism exists, especially on one of the most famous social networks, Twitter. Twitter can feel more disconnected from the real world according to new research conducted by a group of professors and students from Humboldt State University. Their research site Floating Sheep examines Twitter [...]
Christina Cocca (NBCLA) | February 16, 2013 The mothers of two men facing federal hate crimes charges told radio listeners Saturday their sons are innocent, playing down reports of racial conflicts in Compton between Latinos and African-Americans. The women appeared with other Compton residents on “The Hutchinson Report” on KPFK Pacifica Radio, a program hosted [...]
By John Marzulli / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS February 15, 2013, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes (left) faces an upcoming civic trial for being “deliberately indifferent” to misconduct by prosecutors in his office. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes accused of ignoring misconduct in case that wrongly jailed man; faces trial in April Hynes’ appearance on [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff August 17, 2012 | 4:59 p.m. PST The issue among blacks and how others interact with them based on light and dark complexion goes back to the slave plantation of the deep south in the United States. President Barack Obama, arguable was elected because he is a black man of mixed racial ancestry [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff March 30, 2012 | 8:10 p.m. PST Many conservative news outlets have complained about the way the shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, shooting has been represented in the media for the last two weeks. Last month, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, 28, shot and killed Martin in the gated community where the two had [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff March 27, 2012 | 1:15 p.m. PST An internal LAPD investigation found that motorcycle officer Patrick Smith, a 15-year veteran, was guilty of racial profiling. The report found that Smith, a white police officer stopped Hispanic drivers because of their race, according to the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper also stated it was [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 16, 2012 | 1:55 p.m. PST The New York Knicks are one of the hottest teams in the NBA, having won seven straight games since making Jeremy Lin the starting point guard. Lin is the NBA’s first American-born player of Chinese descent, and is has been impressive thus far, with 13 assists [...]
Michael Lacey (Phoenix New Times) | January 12, 2012 The Department of Justice, following a three-year investigation, identified Sheriff Joe Arpaio as overseer of the worst pattern of racial profiling in the history of the nation. A week later, on December 23, 2011, federal Judge C. Murray Snow allowed all Latino victims of the racial [...]
KABC | August 13, 2011 LOS ANGELES — The number of hate crimes against Hispanics in California has nearly doubled, according to the state attorney general. There were 119 recorded hate crimes against Hispanics in 2010, compared to 81 just a year earlier. That amounts to a 47-percent increase. While anti-Hispanic hate crimes were up, [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff June 28, 2011 | 12:36 p.m. McDonald’s has posted on their Twitter link that the photo indicating a surcharge for African-American is a hoax. The photo has been online for over a year, but has recently been mass circulated. The sign states, “Please Note: As an insurance measure due in part to a [...]
StreetGangs.Com Staff Feb 15 2011 | 2:25 p.m. The National Enquirer is reporting that OJ Simpson, 63, was severely beat down by white skin heads in Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center. Simpson is serving time for his role in a kidnap and armed robbery of sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas in September 2007. White supremacists [...]
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