Poland ministry to close Gypsy-only classes

Poland's Education Minister plans to shut down Gypsy-only school classes following complaints they are discriminatory.

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AP: 'No Child' Law Raises Segregation Fear

Betty Sternberg is in charge of two school systems. One, scattered throughout the state, is rich and white. The other, isolated in seven large towns, is poor and minority.

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OSTROVANY, Slovakia: Lucia Kucharova never cared much about the view from her window until its main feature became a wall separating her and more than 1,000 other Roma from the rest of their village.

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As you may know, North Carolina was thought to be a moderate southern state during the fifties and sixties.

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Everywhere I turn these days I keep seeing or hearing the words, "No More Excuses." From black self-help book titles to black pundits on CNN, these three words have become the mantra of post-racialism in the Age of President Obama.

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It is hard to explain to white people like Glenn Beck why their "innocent" questions about race actually just reveal their ignorance and their false assumptions about people of other races and the nature of race relations.

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For as long as I can remember, Sunday morning church services have been called the most segregated hour in America. But not only is the situation not as dire as everyone likes to think, racism is not the main reason we are divided on Sundays.

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This week we conclusively prove that racism is a thing of the past in 21st Century America as Teabaggers (2,3) invade Washington DC, Roy Blunt (6) tells a funny story about a monkey, and Rush Limbaugh (7) goes pro-segregation. Don't forget the key!

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At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research.

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Nobel Laureate Al Gore tells children to question their parents' climate beliefs as his generation questioned segregation: "There are some things about our world that you know that older people don't know" - right on!

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Quote: "Ms Najjar says the settlers, who are often masked, sometimes stone the house. Once a petrol bomb set fire to a shed. She compares the attacks to raids by the Ku Klux Klan in the segregation-era United States."

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Racists Still Trying to Keep 'Blacks' Down

Several weeks ago I came across an article mentioning the infamous Dr. Watson and questioning the intelligence of 'Blacks.' Bigotry is something I take seriously, so as a matter of course I posted in the comments section and have been up to now.

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Newsvine DemGuys: They're Dems, They're Guys, and This is Their Treehouse?!

"Just because we're liberal, lefty, Democratic or progressive doesn't mean we don't need a treehouse to say things not for mixed company." Is this a joke? There are 70 members....and presumably, only they know the answer.

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But let us not think for one moment that problems of internal divisiveness are unique to Jewry.

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Uncle Doug was a migrant farmworker who visited his family from Lakeland during the winter growing season. He had his nephew, Archie Boston, help him roll Prince Albert tobacco.

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"Let us close the springs of racial poison", on the signing the Civil Rights Act, this day in 1964. Has that racial poison been stemmed? (Poll)

July 2, 1964 was a landmark day in American history. Engineered by Martin Luther king and signed by President Lyndon B Johnson, the Civil Rights Act effectively swept away the second class citizenship of Black people in his country.

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"For the first time in history, a majority of Americans favor gay marriage. An April 2009 ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 49% of Americans favor legalizing gay marriage. 46% are opposed.

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Paradise Lost and Nothing Gained

(Lessons Learned -- The Real Plague on Society is Bigotry) by "Bud" E. Lewis Evans

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Kera Nobles' senior prom should have been a high point of her life, as she celebrated graduation from her home town's school system after 13 years of education.

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(Mental Floss) -- Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty. "Dixie" was was a huge hit acr …

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In an effort to prevent sexual encounters between inmates -- which are illegal in Virginia -- prison staff identified those women who fit stereotypes of lesbian appearance and sent them to what guards referred to as "the butch wing."

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They have long been the forgotten heroes of D-Day, the African American military personnel who stormed ashore and risked their lives for a country that still treated them as second-class citizens.

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For those who say racism is dead in this country: think again:

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About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on.

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"Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents.

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About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on.

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