Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: racial equality

racial equality stories: 9 news summaries

(Newser) - Minority participation in the SAT is up to 40% in 2009, the highest level ever, the Washington Post reports. That's up 2 points since last year and a whopping 10 points since 1999. “More than ever, the SAT reflects the diversity of students in our nation's classrooms,"... More »

MORE ABOUT:
SAT • college admissions • minority • test score • minorities • racial equality • economic disparity • College Board

ANALYSIS

Firefighter Ruling Leaves Guidelines as Muddy as Ever

Employers likely to ditch written tests altogether to avoid discrimination suits

Jun 30, 09 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in favor of a group of white firefighters looks likely to be a boon for employment lawyers instead of cities seeking clear guidance, experts tell the New York Times. The court's ruling makes it harder for employers to chuck out tests that overwhelmingly favor whites, and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
workplace discrimination • discrimination • affirmative action • US Supreme Court • racial equality • racial discrimination

 White Firefighters'  
 Bias Claims Head  
 to High Court 

Conn. team complained after promotion test dumped

Apr 10, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hoping to become lieutenants, 77 New Haven firefighters took a promotion test—but when none of the 19 black firefighters qualified, the city jettisoned the results. Their hopes dashed, 17 white firefighters sued the city for racial discrimination, and the case is now set for the Supreme Court. It marks... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Roberts • race • New Haven • firefighters • Connecticut • racial inequality • US Supreme Court • racial equality • racial discrimination

 MLK's Dream 
 Now a Reality: 
 69% of Blacks 

Majority of blacks say King's vision fulfilled; whites more skeptical

Jan 19, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - More than two-thirds of African Americans believe that the goals set out in Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech have been met, a CNN poll finds. That number has doubled since last March, to 69% from 34%. Although whites seem to still think race relations have... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • race relations • poll • Martin Luther King Jr. • racial equality • civil rights movement • President Obama

 Rice 'Especially 
 Proud' of Obama 

Secretary of State 'especially proud' of Obama

Nov 5, 08 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice delivered emotional congratulations to Barack Obama today, saying that as an African American she is “especially proud” of his victory. The secretary of State called the Democrat an inspiration, the AP reports. “Americans are not going to be satisfied until they really do form that perfect... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Bush administration • Barack Obama • equality • Condoleezza Rice • racial equality • Election 2008 • Obama administration

OPINION

The Civil War Ended Last Night; Time for Reconstruction

Already a historic prez, Obama can be great

Nov 5, 08 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The American Civil War finally ended last night, writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. The struggle that began at Bull Run was brought to a close when white America elected a black American president—the ‘Bradley effect” trumped by the “Buffett effect” of rich... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • race relations • Obama 2008 • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Civil War • racial equality • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

An Obama
Win Would Belong to LBJ

Run is confirmation of slow change since
Civil Rights Act

Nov 4, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Unless the polls are wrong, the winner of today’s election is clear: Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We have lost the South for a generation,” Johnson said when he signed the Civil Rights Act. Well, “for that generation, time’s up,” Richard Cohen writes in the More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Lyndon Johnson • race relations • Voting Rights Act • Obama 2008 • racial equality • Election 2008

Glory Road Coach
Haskins Dead at 78

Beloved icon broke race barriers in college ball

Sep 8, 08 2:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Haskins, the beloved coach famous for smashing racial barriers in college basketball during the 1960s, died yesterday at age 78, reports the El Paso Times. Haskins, one of the winningest coaches in the history of collegiate basketball, is best known for his groundbreaking decision to start five black players... More »

MORE ABOUT:
NCAA • coaching • racial equality • University of Kentucky • college basketball • Don Haskins • Texas Western University • 1966

King's Church Rings With Praise

Bill Clinton, Huckabee pay respects to civil rights leader

Jan 21, 08 3:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached his message of racial equality rang with praise today for the slain civil rights leader, reports the AP. Hundreds of notables, including Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, crammed into Ebenezer Baptist Church. "King's legacy gives light... More »

MORE ABOUT:
African Americans • Bill Clinton • Mike Huckabee • civil rights • Martin Luther King Jr. • Ebenezer Baptist Church • Shirley Franklin • racial equality

9 Stories


from our news partners