Overall number of hate crimes drops in L.A. County but crimes against gays increase, new report says

by Raja Abdulrahim (LA Times)
November 19, 2009

Los Angeles County saw an overall 4% drop in hate crimes last year, while crimes against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people increased, prompted in part by last November’s highly charged Proposition 8 initiative, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, according to a new report released today.
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Top civil rights attorney promises increased enforcement of discrimination laws

by Teresa Watanabe (LA Times)
October 31, 2009

The nation’s top civil rights attorney vowed Friday to step up enforcement of laws against housing bias, hate crimes, racially targeted predatory lending and other discriminatory acts in what he called a new era of “transformation and restoration.”
Thomas Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, also said during [...]

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Interracial Marriage Denial Sparks Outrage

by Mary Foster (Associated Press)
October 17, 2009

Louisiana’s governor and a U.S. senator joined Friday in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law.
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Did Rush Limbaugh call the NFL a bunch of Crips & Bloods

Alex Alonso
October 15, 2009
Rush Limbaugh called the NFL a bunch of Crip and Bloods with out the weapons. Many have characterized this statement along with many of his other comments as racially charged. NFL Commissioner Roger Giddell has stated that his divisive comments are not welcoming to the NFL. Even though most NFL [...]

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Discussion focuses on hate-crime prevention

The panel session occurs during the week of the 10-year anniversary of a rampage by a self-avowed white supremacist against Jews and ethnic minorities.
By Martha Groves
August 16, 2009
Los Angeles Times
ankel Rosenbaum. James Byrd. Matthew Shepard. Joseph Ileto. David Ritcheson.
The names seem random and disconnected, but one sad trait binds them: Each was the victim [...]

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Good Hair the movie starring Chris Rock

hen Chris Rocks daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, Daddy, how come I dont have good hair? the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilsons camera [...]

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Light Skin v. Dark Skin black people

Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
August 5, 2009
How serious is the divide between light and dark complexion black people? This division was created during the slavery era of the United States, where certain privileges were bestowed to lighter skinned blacks by white society. At the root of this privilege was how much white blood did the [...]

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‘Long legacy’ of race issues tails police

By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
The furor over the arrest of black Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates was just beginning to emerge last week when the Los Angeles Police Department quietly marked the end of a racially charged era of its own.
A federal judge released the police department last week from a near-decade-long agreement with [...]

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Obama: Poor choice of words in scholar’s arrest

President Barack Obama says he could have “calibrated” his words differently, but does not apologize for calling the actions of the Cambridge Police department as “stupidly.”
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ASHINGTON – Trying to tamp down a national uproar over race, President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday he had used [...]

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Won’t You Please Be My Nigga: Double Standards with a Taboo Word

Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
May 30, 2003
Imagine if Mr. Rogers began his show off with the song, won’t you be mine, won’t you be mine, please won’t you be my nigga. He would have been the recipient of a severe backlash that would have had his show off the air in 24 days rather than the [...]

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