CNN Student News Special: Black in America

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Shadowy Lines That Still Divide

By JANNY SCOTT and DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: May 15, 2005

There was a time when Americans thought they understood class. The upper crust vacationed in Europe and worshiped an Episcopal God. The middle class drove Ford Fairlanes, settled the San Fernando Valley and enlisted as company men. The working class belonged to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., voted Democratic and did [...]

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The Ends of White Guilt

A couple months ago I touched on the issue of racism, racial profiling, and the aftermath of racial profiling. For many years minorites, primarily African Americans, have been subject to numerous amounts of racism and prejudice. They have been subject to segregation and inequality. So for many people the election of Barak Obama was [...]

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Terrorism in the U.S.

“As you probably know, a white guy entranced by an extremely version of Tea Party-style right-populist paranoia deliberately crashed an airplane into an IRS building in Texas yesterday. I’m not especially interested in debating semantics, but I think it’s very clear that if this had been done by a brownish-looking Muslim guy whose suicide note paralleled [...]

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Employment After Imprisonment

If you have ever been arrested or incarcerated, you know that gaining employment after your release is very hard. The American prison system does not allow much access to opportunities for ex offenders. This post is to provide you with a few resources to aid in getting back into the workforce upon your release.

1) [...]

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