June 2013
June 20th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
HOUSTON (AP) – Major League Baseball (MLB) received an A rating in racial hiring practices in Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports 2013 report at the University of Central Florida. But the number of black major leaguers remained low at just 8.3 percent.
Commissioner Bud Selig touted the progress the league made in racial hiring practices while stressing his desire to...
June 20th, 2013
Written by Terez Howard in All About Family with 2 Comments
I did something, Terez,” my friend tells me one day. “Something bad.”
My stomach tightened as she told me that she had smoked. She said it was an awful experience, and the cigarette made her feel sick. “I will never do it again,” she said, and she never has.
Why did she do it? Peer pressure.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines peer pressure as a strong influence from different racial groups,...
June 20th, 2013
Written by Jennifer V. Hughes in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
When comic Dean Obeidallah took the stage not long after the September 11th terrorist attacks, he did something he had never done before: He called himself “Dean Joseph,” using his middle name instead of his Palestinian last name because of the racial discrimination articles flowing throughout the U.S.
The new name stuck for only a few shows before Obeidallah realized he could use his ethnic...
June 20th, 2013
Written by Kerrissa Vaughn in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Lineeka Oliveras, African-American, and her husband Tony, Hispanic, postponed creating an estate plan to cover the immediate needs of their four children.
“After our second child, I really started thinking about what would happen if something happened to both of us, says full-time student, Lineeka Oliveras. “I’m diabetic and my husband has certain stuff going on. We have illnesses that could be...
June 20th, 2013
Written by Jenny Deam in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
On Feb. 8, 1942, two months and a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 13-year-old Herbert Inouye, his mother, brother, and three others shoved everything they could into a car, truck, and a pick-up and left their homes in Los Angeles. The county sheriff had quietly warned them that they needed to get out of California as quickly as possible. There was racism news from the media and rumors of...