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NEWS ABOUT: white people

white people stories: 12 news summaries

(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly can’t figure out why African Americans would care about Michael Jackson’s death. “Michael Jackson has white children, and he chose to have white children,” he said on his show last night. “And the face deal, I don’t even want to... More »

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race • African Americans • Bill O'Reilly • race relations • Michael Jackson • white people

Number of
Blacks Jailed
for Drugs Declines

But number of white inmates increases

Apr 14, 09 5:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - A profound shift may be under way in the racial makeup of the nation's prison population, the Washington Post reports. For the first time in 20 years, the number of blacks imprisoned for drug offenses is falling sharply while the number of whites is rising, the Washington Post reports.... More »

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drugs • African Americans • sentencing • jail • crystal meth • crack cocaine • prison population • white people • blacks

OPINION

 'Real' America's Not Racist 

Image of rural whites distorted by McCain, media

Oct 26, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The media focus on the “Bradley effect" and the notion of a divided nation—"real" vs. "elite"—hyped by the McCain campaign suggests that racism among small-town whites will prove a stumbling block for Barack Obama, Frank Rich writes. But the alleged racism is nowhere near... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • racism • Frank Rich • American media • small towns • Election 2008 • white people • Bradley effect

 Obama Brings Dems 
 Historic White Support 

Polls show 44% back Barack, most since Carter

Oct 25, 08 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has gained more support among whites than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter, Politico reports. Some 44% of non-Hispanic whites back the Illinois senator, Gallup and Pew polls over the last 2 weeks suggest; 47% supported Carter in 1976. In the same period John McCain has pulled between 48%... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democrats • Election 2008 • white people

New HIV Study Shows Disease Accelerating

CDC finds 40% more cases than thought; blacks' rate alarming

Sep 12, 08 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new CDC study of Americans with HIV conducted with new technology shows that the virus is spreading faster than previously thought, reports the New York Times. In 2006, more than 56,000 were newly infected with the virus that causes AIDS—40% more than anticipated. The study also showed... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • public health • infection • STD • HIV/AIDS • African-Americans • white people

 Minorities Surging to Majority

Changes will dramatically alter political landscape

Aug 14, 08 2:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's demographics will dramatically change by mid-century, with the white population slipping to a minority of 46% of Americans, according to projections  from the Census Bureau. Minority kids will make up 66% of the nation's population of children, reports the Washington Post. The number of Hispanics is expected to... More »

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Census Bureau • Brookings Institution • baby boom • Hispanic • Center for Immigration Studies • African-Americans • white people

Minorities Becoming Majority
Across US

2007 census reveals dramatic trend

Aug 7, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The white population has declined in more than half of US counties, marking a dramatic shift in America's human landscape, reports USA Today. The data from the 2007 census, released today, reveals a continuing trend of immigration and growth within minority populations, coupled with slow or no growth among... More »

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United States • population • demographics • US Census • minorities • Census data • white people

White Flight
Slows, Stops,
Reverses

Big cities influx of whites as more blacks move to suburbs

Jul 19, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - White Americans are reversing a decades-old trend by moving back to big cities, the Wall Street Journal reports. In cities like Boston, Washington DC, Seattle and Atlanta, the white population is rising again as suburbanites flock to live in newly trendy city centers—and affluent African-Americans move to the suburbs.... More »

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Gentrification • demographics • cities • suburbs • African-Americans • white people

OPINION

Clinton: Great White Hope?

Poll results seem to show that some view her candidacy as way to hold onto status

May 19, 08 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Working-class whites, as "a social category," fear a loss of definition and power, and that might be lead them to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, Gregory Rodriguez writes in the Los Angeles Times. This isn't white supremacy; "in fact it might be its opposite, an acknowledgment... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • race • race relations • white people

OPINION

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

Noonan: They could try addressing us as adults

Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Add conservative columnist—and speechwriter of note—Peggy Noonan to the list of pundits impressed by Barack Obama’s address on race. “It was a speech to think to, not clap to,” Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . And it holds a lesson for Clinton and... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Michelle Obama • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • William Faulkner • African-Americans • white people

What's White and White and Read All Over?

Blog strikes a chord with some, hits
a nerve with others

Feb 26, 08 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - When a twentysomething writer launched a satirical blog called "Stuff White People Like" 6 weeks ago, he didn't expect an overwhelming response, and he certainly didn't expect to average 300,000 hits a day. The blog was intended to mock the way the media stereotypes ethnicities, but not all... More »

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race • race relations • blogger • white people

Michelle Obama College Thesis Muses on Race

Studies void between blacks and whites at Princeton and beyond

Feb 23, 08 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Michelle Obama’s 1985 Princeton thesis—whose unavailability at the university has prompted blogger suspicions—discusses the concerns of a black woman in a sphere dominated by whites. In the 96-page document, scored by Politico from the Obama campaign, Mrs. Obama writes that to white students, it seems “I... More »

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Barack Obama • African Americans • Princeton University • Michelle Obama • thesis • racial inequality • college student • African-Americans • white people

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