Affirmative Action Articles page 9

Lansing State Journal - I don't support affirmative action either, but I don't think that is what MLK Jr. day is all about. To me, MLK Jr. day is about taking a few minutes to remember someone who sacrificed his life trying to make life better for others around him. It has ...

Lansing State Journal - ... via live media; the government fails its minority citizens during disasters such as Hurricane Katrina; six black males from Jena, Louisiana, are wrongly persecuted; people of Middle Eastern descent are common targets of scorn; and Affirmative Action ...

Lansing State Journal - His fight was for black folks, and we need to be clear about that,” Singleton said. “Let’s look in the ’70s at affirmative action. Who did that help most? It wasn’t black folks. Mainly it was the white female that got helped.” He said he ...

Rutland Herald - Chambers has also written numerous books on civil rights, including "Beyond Affirmative Action" and "The State of Black America." Chambers will speak at 12:45 p.m. at the Vermont Law School's Chase Community Center. The event is free and open to the ...

Daily News and Analysis - It was a spectacularly candid admission of failure by a man who was one of the most vociferous advocates of Malaysia’s “New Economic Policy”, a system of affirmative action that, despite its dubious constitutional validity, nevertheless ...

Wall Street Journal - ... President John F. Kennedy issues an executive order mandating federally-funded projects take "affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias.

Salon - For this former Rhodes scholar, it isn't just Thomas' denunciation of affirmative action as reverse racism -- "There is no sillier idea than this in all of American law," writes Kennedy -- that black folks resent, but that Thomas benefited from the ...

Seattle Times - DENVER — Intent on dismantling affirmative action, activists in five states have launched a coordinated drive to cut off tax dollars for programs that offer preferential treatment based on race or gender. The campaign aims to put affirmative-action ...

Contra Costa Times - He's still raising the ire of right-wingers with his bold decisions, including striking down a state initiative that banned affirmative action (leading Tom DeLay to call for his impeachment), requiring the tuna-fishing industry to stop killing ...

Vancouver Sun - The tacit agreement gave the majority ethnic Malays, with 60 per cent of the population, dominant political power and the benefits of affirmative action policies, while the ethnic Chinese, representing 25 per cent of the country's 27 million people ...