Read more blacks stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/39539/blacks.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:51:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73719/precious-a-perfect-look-at-black-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt first horrified, political alarms blaring, as she watched the Precious trailer, Erin Aubry Kaplan realized after seeing the film that it’s actually a story that has long needed to be told: “that of a big, black, sullen-faced, illiterate girl who lives in the depths of the ghetto and in...http://www.newser.com/story/73719/precious-a-perfect-look-at-black-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 13:17:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65846/african-americans-must-get-angry-about-racial-profiling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHenry Louis Gates and Barack Obama have been “very publicly slapped down for speaking up and speaking out about police misbehavior,” but African-Americans “need to roar out their anger at such treatment,” Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times . Gates, not the officer who arrested him, is in the...http://www.newser.com/story/65846/african-americans-must-get-angry-about-racial-profiling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 11:35:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62367/la-latinos-are-gay-marriage-wild-card-poll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA new Los Angeles Times poll shows why gay marriage advocates and opponents are targeting LA Latinos after Proposition 8: Unlike African Americans, they are divided on the issue. While African American voters oppose gay marriage by 54% to 37%, Latinos are split, 45% in favor and 46% against. Among...http://www.newser.com/story/62367/la-latinos-are-gay-marriage-wild-card-poll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 19 Jun 2009 19:48:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61990/us-gets-its-first-black-female-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLast week Alysa Stanton was ordained as a rabbi at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, one of the country's oldest synagogues, and a little history was made—the US had its first black female leader of a Jewish congregation. Stanton, born a Pentecostal Christian, converted in 1987, enduring hostility...http://www.newser.com/story/61990/us-gets-its-first-black-female-rabbi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 6:43:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56180/number-of-blacks-jailed-for-drugs-declines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA profound shift may be under way in the racial makeup of the nation's prison population, the Washington Post reports. For the first time in 20 years, the number of blacks imprisoned for drug offenses is falling sharply while the number of whites is rising, the Washington Post reports. One...http://www.newser.com/story/56180/number-of-blacks-jailed-for-drugs-declines.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Apr 2009 17:52:43 CDT