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Annapolis accused of discrimination in Police Department
Four former and current African-American Annapolis police officers have filed a federal racial-discrimination lawsuit against the city, claiming that they were unfairly treated, subjected to harassment, wrongly turned down for promotions and, for two of...
Tags: Social Issues, Trials, Litigation, Justice System, Laws
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Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]
We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...Tags: Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Medicare, Crime, Law and Justice, Mastectomy
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Vincent Kartheiser, from 'Mad Men' to 'Pride and Prejudice' onstage
Vincent Kartheiser will swap his sharp suits for ruffles and coattails. The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis announced that the “Mad Men” star will play Mr. Darcy in its summer production of “Pride and Prejudice.” The adaptation by...
Tags: Colin Firth, Jane Austen, BBC
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Wet Seal to pay $7.5 million to settle race discrimination suit
Wet Seal will pay $7.5 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that accused the teen retailer of firing black employees to present a blond-and-blue-eyed front in its stores, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The...
Tags: Social Issues, Trials, Employment, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Employment Opportunities
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Gay rights activists in Mexico City accuse police of abuses
MEXICO CITY -- Same-sex marriage is legal in this city. Gay and lesbian couples can adopt children, and the government touts tolerance and respect for "sexual diversity" in messages posted on subway platforms and bus billboards. Yet, according to...
Tags: Social Issues, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Mexico City, Same-Sex Marriage
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Sanitized society puts hygiene hypothesis to the test
Is the American body politic suffering from an autoimmune disease? The "hygiene hypothesis" is the scientific theory that the rise in asthma and other autoimmune maladies stems from the fact that babies are born into environments that are too clean. Our...
Tags: Social Issues, Social Sciences, Civil Rights, Witnesses, Culture
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Ray Rice to play featured role in USA's 'Characters Unite' campaign
The Baltimore SunBaltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice will be the first player featured during the upcoming season in USA's "NFL Characters Unite" campaign, the cable channel will announce later today. Rice will also announce an expanded relationship between the NFL...Tags: Super Bowl XLVII, Ray Rice, National Football League, Super Bowl, New Products
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Mossburg misrepresents research on housing vouchers
In her April 23 column, “Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor,” Marta H. Mossburg quoted me as saying that laws prohibiting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers “exacerbate” the problem of finding housing...Tags: Social Issues, Johns Hopkins University, Crime, Law and Justice, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Housing and Urban Planning
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Another look at USDA program
Discrimination in the delivery of USDA programs is a painful and complex subject. I am deeply disturbed by the misleading information published in the April 30 editorial about the USDA Farm Loan settlements and New York Times story it relied on. Both...Tags: Social Issues, Trials, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Obama's no-excuses credo
On May 19, President Obama gave a commencement address at Morehouse College, a predominantly black men's college in Atlanta. His words and message were forceful, timely and uniquely befitting the first African American president. The president said what...Tags: Social Issues, Morehouse College, Barack Obama, Sociology, Culture
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As times change, will tolerance for tradition be tolerated?
With the issue of same-sex marriage argued before the Supreme Court and raging elsewhere in America, a question: Is it possible to be a traditional Christian or Muslim or Orthodox Jew — and hold to one's faith on what constitutes marriage —...
Tags: Social Issues, Interreligious Dialogue, Justice System, Civil Rights, Judges
May 18, 2013
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May 18, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 6, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 16, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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