
EDITORIAL: MINORITY REPORT: A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
While English-speaking commentators on television buzzed last week about who won the first presidential debate, which focused on Iraq, Spanish-language commentators buzzed about everything but Iraq. Their focus was on immigration issues, education and healthcare.
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WEALTH GAP AMONG RACES WIDENS
The enormous wealth gap between white families and blacks and Hispanics grew larger after the most recent recession, a private analysis of government data finds.
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BLACKS MAIN TARGET OF HATE CRIMES
Racial prejudice, most often directed at black people, was behind more than half of the nation's 7,400 reported hate-crime incidents in 2003, the FBI said Monday.
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When I lived in Maryland a few years ago, it was not an State who was friendly towards immigrants and minorities. I was the victim of at least one direct racial statement by a crazy old lady in a clothing store. I cannot reply here what I answered her (nope, I did not swear!) So when I read this news I was not surprised at all....
From CNN.com
GREENBELT, Maryland (AP) -- The fires that caused an estimated $10 million damage at an upscale housing development in a Washington suburb were set by unidentified "acquaintances" in addition to the four men already charged in the case, according to court documents filed Monday.
The documents also allege details of the setting of the fires, describing two vehicles and a number of flammable materials.
Two possible motives, race and revenge, are among the theories that have emerged during questioning of the four men in custody, an official has said.
The December 6 fires at a housing development under construction destroyed at least 10 houses and damaged 16 others. No one was injured....
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STUDY: DISPARITIES IN CARE KILL 80,000 BLACKS
More than 80,000 black Americans die every year because of continuing disparities in health care, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher said Wednesday.
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HISPANICS NOW ONE-SEVENTH OF U.S. POPULATION
One of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic, a record number that probably will keep rising because of immigration and a birthrate outstripping non-Hispanic blacks and whites.
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EDITORIAL: A PUZZLING BANK PROTEST
On Friday, members of the Utah Minuteman Project are planning to picket two Holladay bank branches that accept, as forms of identification, the Mexican matricula consular card and the new Utah driving privilege card. The forms of identification are used to open bank accounts and conduct other bank business. The Minutemen claim that Zions and Wells Fargo banks are violating federal law by encouraging illegal immigration.
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