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Videos of fatal police shooting in Oakland, Calif., spark violent protests, homicide probe
Associated Press WritersOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and...Tags: New Year's Day, Police, Florida State University, Bill Murray, Oakland (Alameda, California)
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Study: Bigotry Doesn't Bother People Too Much
The Hartford CourantWith the inauguration of Barack Obama imminent and the hopes that we may have entered a time when racism has greatly diminished, or ended entirely, a new study shows that white people - even those who say they are not biased - do not get as upset when...Tags: Yale University, Justice and Rights, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights, Discrimination
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Surprising study finds big gap in how people say they'll react to racism and how they do
WASHINGTON (AP) — Think you wouldn't tolerate a racist act? Think again, says a surprising experiment that exposed some college students to one and found indifference at best. Here's the scene: Researchers in Toronto recruited 120 non-black York...Tags: Celebrity, Indiana University, Justice and Rights, Colleges and Universities, Culture
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Charles Morgan, civil rights-era lawyer from Alabama, dies in Florida; Bond, Ali among clients
Associated Press WriterMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles Morgan Jr., a civil rights-era lawyer from Alabama who represented Julian Bond and Muhammad Ali and argued for the "one man, one vote" principle that redrew political maps, died Thursday. He was 78. Family members...Tags: International Military Interventions, Court Administration, American Civil Liberties Union, Justice and Rights, Alzheimer's Disease
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Senate's Democratic majority clears path for Roland Burris
Tribune reportersWASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority opened the way Wednesday for Roland Burris to become Illinois' next senator, pressured by President-elect Barack Obama to remove a politically consuming distraction less than two weeks before he...Tags: Primaries, Blagojevich Impeachment Hearing, Executive Branch, Heads of State, Regional Authority
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Family Filmgoer: A guide for parents
OK FOR 6 AND OLDER ''THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX'' (G) What luck to have a richly imagined animated film to charm kids 6 and older. ''The Tale of Despereaux,'' adapted from Kate DiCamillo's 2003 book, is set in a storybook Middle Ages. There are scary bits...Tags: The Spirit (movie), Kate Winslet, Adolf Hitler, Vehicles, Adam Sandler
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Letters to the editor
Use common sense Re “Jury out on new law for drivers,” Jan. 3 I am still amazed that we have to make a law for people not to text on those itty-bitty phones with those itty-bitty letters while driving down the freeway at 80 miles an hour...Tags: Executive Branch, Justice and Rights, Upper House, George Bush, Minority Groups
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GOP must reject racially divisive rhetoric
Special To The SentinelAmong all the punditry and analysis of this election cycle, two things stand out above all else: the historic nature of Barack Obama's win and the fact that the GOP must reconnect with voters across the board on a national level. In Florida, a snapshot...Tags: Parties and Movements, Music, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
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IU committee renews call to rename Wildermuth gym
An Indiana University naming committee has renewed a recommendation to add the name of IU's first black basketball player to a gymnasium named for a trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s. "We reaffirmed the recommendation that we sent...Tags: Indiana University, National Government, Colleges and Universities, Bill Garrett, Government
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Movie review: Gran Torino -- 3 of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticThe racist, homophobic Dirty Harry Callahan has retired in Detroit. Sgt. Highway of Heartbreak Ridge may not wear his stripes, but he still keeps his rifle loaded. And William Munny, the haunted, aged gunfighter of Unforgiven, has one last shot at...Tags: Gang Activity, Vehicles, Culture, Juvenile Delinquency, Roger Moore
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Black mayor who received threats steps aside
A Gloucester County mayor who reported death threats and racist vandalism during his two years in office has declined to serve another year. Charles Tyson will remain on the South Harrison Township council, which chooses a mayor each year. But Tyson...Tags: Prosecution, Gloucester County, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Virginia, Regional Authority
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Will Smith: 'People looked at me crazy'
To actor Will Smith, one of the planet's most reliable box-office stars, Obama's impact transcends the cultural world. "He has validated something that I've believed for a lot of years, that I've never really been able to say," Smith said. "People looked...Tags: Will Smith, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities
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