Brainwashed, book about how blacks by into their own stereo-types

By Alex Alonso for Streetgangs.com
March 18, 2010
Author Tom Burrell, publishes new book entitled, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, which is about how American society has desensitized mainstream black thinking to accept all the negative imagery that surrounds them in music, art, comedy and society and then perpetuate it themselves.
This book examines [...]

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Film on Los Angeles Black Panthers wins award at Pan African Film Festival

By Alex Alonso for Streetgangs.com
March 17, 2010
Last month, the film, 41st & Central, the documentary about the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party, won an award for audience choice for best documentary. The Los Angeles Black Panthers or the So Cal chapter have been know for many activities, but in 1969 [...]

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Civil rights activists seek federal probe of Torrance Police Department

By Kurt Streeter (LA Times)
March 15, 2010

Civil rights activists Sunday called for a federal investigation into allegations of harassment and racial profiling by the Torrance Police Department, following the traffic stop of an African American pastor in early March.
“What we want is a full federal Justice Department probe of Torrance and its treatment of African [...]

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Multimedia campaign urges Latino youth to participate in the U.S. Census

by Anna Gorman (LA Times)
March 10, 2010

Community leaders and celebrities announced a new multimedia campaign in Los Angeles on Wednesday aimed at getting young Latinos to participate in the U.S. Census.
During the news conference at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, speakers invited students to download an interactive mobile application, to participate in a texting campaign (text [...]

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3 L.A. teachers suspended over Black History Month celebration of Simpson, Rodman, RuPaul

by Alexandra Zavis (LA Times)
March 3, 2010

Three teachers at a South Los Angeles elementary school have been suspended for allegedly encouraging students to celebrate O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul for Black History Month, officials said Wednesday.
Children at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School were carrying pictures of the men at a parade Friday on the school [...]

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Why Organ Donors Are Hard to Find in Latino Community

by Miriam Reyes (LA Beez)
March 1, 2010

Why do Latinos rank lowest among all ethnic groups when it comes to participating in organ donation programs?
Ask members of the medical profession and you’ll likely here a laundry list of factors that includes cultural predispositions brought from rural home regions, confused religious viewpoints, and a general lack of [...]

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Video: LAUSD sued for depriving low-income and minority schools

by Miriam Hernandez (KABC)
February 24, 2010

PICO-UNION, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles Unified School District is hit with a lawsuit, claiming thousands of teacher layoffs have deprived poor inner-city children of their right to an education.
She is 13 years old, a student in a troubled school. Budget cuts left Sharail Reed with 10 different [...]

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UC San Diego leaders condemn student party mocking Black History Month

by Larry Gordon (LA Times)
February 17, 2010

UC San Diego leaders and civil rights activists have condemned a student party held Monday that mocked Black History Month with a ghetto-themed “Compton Cookout.”
Campus administrators said Wednesday that they were investigating whether the off-campus party and its Facebook invitation violated the university’s code of conduct and whether its [...]

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Racial Gap in Medical Care Remains a Concern

by Ed Stannard, New Haven Register
February 16, 2010

NEW HAVEN — The gap in medical treatment between whites and minority groups may be based partly on which hospitals and doctors they go to when they need surgery, according to a Yale University study.
The study, led by professor Andrew J. Epstein of the School of Public Health, [...]

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Immigrant-rights group vows legal action over Santa Clarita councilman’s ‘I’m a proud racist’ remark

by Ann M. Simmons (LA Times)
February 8, 2010 | 12:23 pm

Immigrant-rights activists said they plan to take legal action against a Santa Clarita councilman, who they say has refused to apologize for declaring himself a “proud racist” and has not been censured by fellow council members.
Leaders of the Los Angeles-based Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition [...]

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Latinos seek more support for immigration reform

By Teresa Watanabe (LA Times)
February 1, 2010

A leading Latino lawmaker asserted Monday that Latinos, angered at President Obama for his failure to push immigration reform legislation, could stay home from the polls this year.
“People are angry and disillusioned,” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said in an interview.
Gutierrez criticized the Obama administration for not pushing harder [...]

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Immigrants often see peril in reporting domestic abuse

By Anna Gorman
January 25, 2010

Indian immigrant Rumi Jaggi said she didn’t report the abuse in part because of cultural expectations that she would stay married. R.M. said she didn’t leave her husband because she spoke only Mandarin and relied on him to pay the bills. Concepcion Arellano said she endured abuse because she feared deportation.
Though [...]

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