On AlterNet: minorities

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "minorities"

Whose Police Department? How the NYPD Serves the Rich and Oppresses the People

Robert Gangi, AlterNet. December 21, 2011.

The NYPD are not accountable to the people; they are members of an occupying force and the people are the enemy.

Anti-Choice Zealots Don't Care About Depriving Poor and Minorities of Cancer Screenings, Birth Control

Akiba Solomon, ColorLines. June 5, 2011.

Conservative efforts to restrict reproductive rights at the state level are an attack on the poor and minorities.

Media Warn AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could Hurt Ethnic Communities

Jehangir Khattak, New America Media. April 12, 2011.

Low-income populations could be confronted by reduced service access and higher costs.

Reality-Check: Immigrants Aren't the Cause of Minority Unemployment and Low Wages

Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. March 1, 2011.

Native-born workers get a small increase in wages as a result of immigration.

How Wall St. Screwed Blacks and Latinos

Jim Campen, Dollars and Sense. December 5, 2010.

Because borrowers of color had limited access to the traditional prime loans, they were vulnerable for exploitation by predatory lenders.

Wall Street Mega-Banks Employ 'Undercover Brothers' to Rip Off Minorities with Payday Loan Scams

RJ Eskow, Blog for Our Future. October 4, 2010.

The big banks are using middlemen to exploit lower-income people without tarnishing their own brands.

White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement

Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. February 5, 2010.

The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs stirring its anti-government contempt.

Why Americans Really Need to Pay Attention to Copenhagen

Rinku Sen, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 15, 2009.

It would be all too easy to build a green economy as unfair as the industrial age has been.

Racially Exclusive Suburbs Across U.S. Dubbed the New 'Whitopia'

Lewis Beale, Miller-McCune.com. October 7, 2009.

Some of the fastest-growing areas in America are also the most Caucasian -- author Rich Benjamin's new book explores the new establishment of white ghettos.

Discovery Channel's 'Gang Wars: Oakland' Series Spreads All the Wrong Messages About Poverty and Minorities

Aimee Allison, AlterNet. September 22, 2009.

The Discovery Channel's series spreads dangerous myths, focusing on the worst racial stereotypes and uses sensational police footage to depict crimes of poverty.

The Hidden Health Toll of Race

Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. July 11, 2009.

The stress of living in a white-dominated society makes African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts.

Everyone's Feeling Economic Pain, But It's Hitting Minorities Worst of All

Valeria Fernandez, ColorLines. January 19, 2009.

Latinos and Blacks are feeling the effects of foreclosures, job losses and increased debt most acutely.

Young Minorities Make Up the Bulk of Unregistered Voters

Project VoteJune 11, 2008.

Project Vote aims to get young, non-college-educated minorities involved in the political process.

In the White Male-Dominated Grantmaking World, Advocates for LGBT Minorities Get Screwed

Conn Corrigan, The Advocate. May 20, 2008.

Less than 9% of funding for LGBT groups goes to those who work with Blacks, Latinos, and other people of color -- a disproportionately low figure.

Pretrial Lock Up

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. May 2, 2008.

Thousands of prisoners languish in jail for months, even years, before they are tried.

Economist Fears Historic Loss of Assets for Minorities

Sandip Roy, deleted. April 19, 2008.

A warning that the current economic downturn could lead to the greatest loss of assets for communities of color that's ever happened.

Ward Connerly Using Deceptive 'Civil Rights' Initiatives to Ban Affirmative Action

Katherine Spillar, Ms. Magazine. March 5, 2008.

Ward Connerly has been well-compensated by the construction industry for his leadership of the anti-affirmative action crusade.

Missing: Minorities in Media

Laura S. Washington, In These Times. February 26, 2008.

In the wake of racial upheaval, the 1968 "Riot Report" concluded the media had to improve its coverage of Black America. Has it?

Massive Bombings Signal Rising Threat to Iraq's Ethnic Minorities

Sam Dagher, Christian Science Monitor. August 17, 2007.

Lacking protection from the Iraqi government, ethnic and religious minorities may look to defend themselves.

New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women-Owned Radio Stations

Kristal Brent Zook, Women's Media Center. June 15, 2007.

Broadcast media ownership by minorities has plummeted by at least 14% since 1997.