Read more segregation stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8094/segregation.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:06:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great grandparents of Michelle. A genealogist working...http://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/47083/bell-carters-ag-dead-at-90.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGriffin Bell, a Southerner who opposed racial segregation and led the Justice Department under President Carter, died today at age 90, the New York Times reports. Bell handled damage control as a post-Nixon attorney general, de-politicizing the Justice Department and the FBI. His earlier rulings as an appeals court judge,...http://www.newser.com/story/47083/bell-carters-ag-dead-at-90.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43629/gop-hopeful-belonged-to-whites-only-country-club.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne of the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee belonged for more than a decade to a whites-only country club, Greg Sargent notes on Talking Points Memo. Katon Dawson, chairman of South Carolina’s Republican Party, resigned from the club in September as he was preparing to run for...http://www.newser.com/story/43629/gop-hopeful-belonged-to-whites-only-country-club.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Nov 2008 14:36:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38374/debate-allows-host-ole-miss-to-show-progress-on-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAssuming the presidential debate happens tomorrow, host University of Mississippi gets to show the nation it’s moved beyond its racially tinged past, the Los Angeles Times reports. The school, known for deadly riots when the first black student enrolled in the 1960s and controversy over Confederate flags at football games...http://www.newser.com/story/38374/debate-allows-host-ole-miss-to-show-progress-on-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:48:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31661/ex-senator-jesse-helms-dead-at-86.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJesse Helms, a polarizing figure who represented North Carolina in the US Senate for 30 years before retiring in 2003, died today in Raleigh, the News & Observer reports. He was 86. A pro-segregation TV commentator before entering national politics, the first Republican senator from North Carolina since Reconstruction opposed...http://www.newser.com/story/31661/ex-senator-jesse-helms-dead-at-86.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Jul 2008 10:44:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30346/dutch-hope-us-model-will-integrate-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDutch leaders believe an integration program honed during the American civil rights movement can curb the racial and class divisions rampant in Amsterdam’s classrooms. Waves of immigrants have swept into the Netherlands, but they haven’t always mixed successfully with native Dutch, reports the Christian Science Monitor. “Segregation is a big...http://www.newser.com/story/30346/dutch-hope-us-model-will-integrate-schools.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Jun 2008 13:29:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29908/california-to-end-last-outpost-of-segregation-prisons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia will fully integrate its prison system next month, making it one of the last states to do so, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The state will end the practice of separating new arrivals to the nation's largest prison system based on race. Both guards and inmates are bracing for...http://www.newser.com/story/29908/california-to-end-last-outpost-of-segregation-prisons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Jun 2008 5:51:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28449/the-new-segregation-this-time-its-political.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe good news? Apathy is on the decline. The bad news? The new political activism is tearing the country apart, writes Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times, with political divides turning into geographic ones, too. The country is segregating itself according to politics, moving to areas full of like-minded...http://www.newser.com/story/28449/the-new-segregation-this-time-its-political.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 May 2008 9:46:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22054/huckabee-lay-off-obama-pastor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood how Wright could...http://www.newser.com/story/22054/huckabee-lay-off-obama-pastor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Mar 2008 8:05:00 CDT