AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies

As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

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Report: Foreclosure crisis hits blacks, Latinos

Black and Latinos are at a disproportionate risk in the ongoing foreclosure crisis because they are more likely than whites to have higher-cost mortgage loans and face higher unemployment rates, a report says.

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Pa. swim club accused of bias files for bankruptcy

A suburban Philadelphia swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children has filed for bankruptcy.

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Black, Latino groups press Dems on health care

African-American, Latino and civil rights groups have launched an ad campaign aimed at pressuring moderate Democratic senators to support health care legislation that allows the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry.

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Racial discrimination found at Pa. swim club

A state panel has found probable cause of racial discrimination at a suburban Philadelphia swim club that asked a day camp group of mostly black and Hispanic children not to return, a ruling the club's lawyer blamed late Tuesday on the "media firestorm" that followed the incident.

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Feds probe alleged discrimination at Pa. swim club

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the case of a suburban Philadelphia swim club that has been accused of racial discrimination.

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Suburban Philly pool faces discrimination suit

A suburban Philadelphia swim club's board should resign to settle claims that the club canceled the pool memberships of dozens of minority children because of their race, a lawyer for most of the children's families said Monday.

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Pa. to investigate pool discrimination allegations

State officials will investigate accusations of racial discrimination against a suburban Philadelphia swim club that allegedly reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return.

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Minority lawmakers want bill to close health gaps

Black, Latino and Asian lawmakers warned Democratic leaders that any health care overhaul that ignores health gaps between whites and minorities will face stiff opposition.

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More minority teachers needed at theology schools

Minority teachers are underrepresented at theological schools and need more financial help and encouragement to become faculty, according to a prominent group of scholars dedicated to improving religious education.

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Pakistan's religious minorities report violence

Fauzia Abrar had finally gotten her crying baby to sleep when screaming men pounded on the steel doors of her home in the mostly Christian slum in the port city of Karachi.

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Blacks match whites in voting rates in 2008

Nearly one-fourth of voters in last November's election were minorities, the most diverse election ever, fueled by high turnout from black women and a growing Hispanic population, an independent research group found.

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Obama says economic recovery will help minorities

President Barack Obama says the best way to help hard-hit minority communities is to help the entire nation thrive.

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Black caucus calls for more diversity in bailouts

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday criticized the lack of minority participation in the government's financial bailouts and suggested that President Barack Obama isn't doing much better than his predecessor to ensure diversity.

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Unemployment hits harder among Latinos, blacks

The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college.

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Iraqi vote on minorities marks step to elections

Parliament approved legislation Monday restoring guaranteed seats on provincial councils to Christians and other small religious communities, the last major hurdle to holding provincial elections next year.

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Report: Minority college attainment up, but stalls

The number of minorities in college has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes.

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Muslim Official Visits Church, Temples

A lawmaker from Malaysia's Islamic opposition party said Wednesday he made rare visits to a church and temples to help assure non-Muslim minorities about their religious rights.

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Report: Minorities Hit by Foreclosures

Subprime lenders that went out of business with the industry's collapse targeted minority neighborhoods, leaving them to struggle disproportionately with foreclosures and crumbling home values, according to a new report.

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Gingrich: Skipping Black Forum a Mistake

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that top tier Republican presidential candidates are making a mistake by skipping a forum focused on issues of importance to black voters.

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Study: Minorities Likely to Pay High Rates

Black and Hispanic home buyers are more likely to pay high mortgage rates than white borrowers with similar credit ratings and income levels, an advocacy group found.

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MONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.

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Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and other places across India in anti-Sikh riots that broke out following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984.

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Outrage over theft of 9 year old's birthday present, less for hate crimes

Readers may have noticed a story on Tuesday, November 3 about two Pennsylvania women ordered to stand outside a local courthouse holding signs advertising their theft of a Wal-Mart gift card from a nine year old girl. One hears about this sort of thing occasionally.

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CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.

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The fact that this article states that police profile minorities and discriminate against them and they live in poorer housing and earn less money and have a higher unemployment rate in Canada appears to be a repeat issue of the United States and other countries as governments tu …

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The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show.

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Bluntness and bitterness have long been elements of integration debates in Germany. But emotion often obscures an important question: Why do many ethnic groups integrate well into German society while others do not?

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St. Paul, Minn. — Again this year, construction companies awarded contracts for state road and bridge projects have fallen short of goals for hiring women and minority subcontractors.

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At Atwater's Cafe in St. Petersburg, Mike Atwater offers up an array of southern cooking. But, the third generation small business owner doesn't offer his four employees health insurance.

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Poor white people and their fight against health care reform.

As I watch and listen to the Republican Party organized protest against the reform of our health care system, I am often struck by the disconnect between the protesters and their economic status and plight and the realities of who would benefit the most from improving our health  …

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The GOP is trying to diversfy with fielding more candidates that are minorities and women.

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Russia is comparatively quite hostile for many racial minorities. There was an earlier very grim report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy that concluded that at least 60% of African immigrants in Russia, had been physically assaulted.

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It gets boring constantly beating on the Republican Party for their racism and general intolerance, but it's an important feature of our national political landscape. Take a look at the elected officials in the GOP. There are no black Republican members of Congress.

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Gov. Paterson is still blaming race for his his troubles. After complaining on a Friday radio show that he is the victim of an "orchestrated" campaign to push him out of office, Paterson told a blogger that some people are uncomfortable with too many black pols in power.

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The critical point in this ever-evolving media landscape, however, is to ensure that as we evolve technologically, we evolve socially as well. By this, we mean that media evolves to reflect society in its fullest spectrum, color, creed and concern. Yet currently, media does not.

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Irfan Hussain writes about the Gojra Christian killings and publishes a letter he received from a priest who had knowledge of the situation and explains what the fuss was.

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Back in the 1960s, Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter and other liberal sociologists, historians and political scientists, puzzled that anyone could support Barry Goldwater rather than Lyndon Johnson, concluded that Goldwater supporters were deranged.

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How horrible it must be for the GOP so-called leadership -- John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Eric Cantor -- who must now be feeling some anguish from their commitment to say No to everything in Obama's platform to help our country and ordinary American citizens.

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This week, the fog of racial profiling hung heavy over Harvard Square. The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., the eminent Harvard scholar, at his own home thrust the police's treatment of minorities, particularly black men, back into the spotlight.

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The New York City Fire Department is the largest fire department in the United States, employing about 11,000 firefighters. Of those, 3 percent are black and 4.5 percent are Hispanic

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From Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

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excerpt: "" private suburban Philadelphia swim club accused of racism after it canceled the memberships of dozens of minority children says it will seek a meeting to work out an agreement for the kids to return.""

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Any list of the best places to work is sure to include cool favorites like Google. The U.S. military? The sacrifices and risks required of its members seem to make it an unlikely pick.

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Officially, China is made up of 56 nationalities: one majority nationality, the Han, and 55 minority groups. The 2000 census revealed a total official minority population of nearly 104m, or approximately 9% of the total population.

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The writer, Naveen Naqvi, talks about the silent ills of Pakistan's society, apart from what grabs the world's attention: the Taliban and Al Qaeda. She highlights Child marriages and the treatment of minorities

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