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08.06.13
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To Join ’63 March On Washington: ‘Like Climbing A Mountain’ by Michelle Norris

There are many anniversaries from the Civil Rights Movement this year, including the March on Washington.

“For the Month of August, Morning Edition and The Race Card Project are looking back at a seminal moment in civil rights history: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have A Dream Speech” on Aug. 28, 1963. Approximately 250,000 people descended on the nation’s capitol from all over the country for the mass demonstration.”

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/05/207913707/to-join-63-march-on-washington-like-climbing-a-mountain

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08.06.13
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NPR Special Series: The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays

“NPR’s partnership with The Race Card Project explores a different kind of conversation about race. We ask people to think about their experiences, observations, triumphs, laments, theories or anthem about race or cultural identity. Then they take those thoughts and distill them down to one six-word sentence.

Thousands of people have shared their six-word stories and every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris will dip into the trove of stories to explore issues surrounding race and cultural identity for “Morning Edition.”

You can find hundreds of submissions and submit your own stories atwww.theracecardproject.com”

 

http://www.npr.org/series/173814508/the-race-card-project

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08.03.13
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First Nation group furious at Province’s move to cut trees down for Enbridge pipeline path by Jenny Uechi

While not unique at all to Canada, this case illustrates the conflict between the rights of indigenous people, commercial interests, and governmental organizations (or organisations , if you live in Canada):

https://www.vancouverobserver.com/environment/first-nation-group-furious-provinces-move-cut-trees-down-enbridge-pipeline-path

08.01.13
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The Persistent Geography of Disadvantage by RICHARD FLORIDA

“Inequality stems from place itself and is located in the urban neighborhoods that generations of African-Americans have called home. Despite the civil rights gains of the 1960s, there has been little change in the concentrated disadvantage faced by a large number of black families. Sharkey found that over 70 percent of the African-American residents of America’s poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods forty years ago. The persistence of intergenerational poverty and economic disadvantage is thus inextricably linked to location and place.”

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/07/persistent-geography-disadvantage/6231/

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08.01.13
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Don Lemon and the Complexity of Race by Peniel E. Joseph

“The upcoming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington should be a time for a research-driven conversation about racial inequality that asks tough questions not just about individual behavior but also about the collective stake we all have in transforming American social, political and economic institutions to include the poor blacks we dismiss as being personally unworthy of full citizenship and culpable in their own miserable fate.”

http://www.theroot.com/views/don-lemon-and-complexity-race?page=0,0

 

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07.27.13
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When the Patient Is Racist By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D., NY Times

Issues of race and racism in the healthcare field. Doctors and nurses are taught to provide care for all, regardless of race or background. But what about when the patient is racist and doesn’t want a healthcare provider of a different race to treat them?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/when-the-patient-is-racist/?src=rechp

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07.27.13
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Paula Deen’s Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History By KIM SEVERSON, NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/paula-deens-soul-sister-portrays-an-unequal-bond.html?_r=0

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