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Jesse Jackson Slaps Tea Party at MLK Tribute

Matt Cantor — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:05:00 CDT

Jesse Jackson lashed out at the Tea Party at a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial event, comparing its ideology to old states’ rights arguments against integration. The movement “is not new,” he said at the crowded luncheon in Washington. “It's just a new name for an old game." In an...

Wanted: Women for Co-ed Navy Submarine

Emily Rauhala — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:43:43 CDT

The Navy is finally integrating submarines. Recruiting for an initial 19 female officers is underway and starting in late next year or early 2012, women will be serving alongside men. One Navy rep admitted the change was "probably overdue" and downplayed concerns over having women aboard. "The change to the...

Yahoo Gets Deeper In Bed With Facebook

Harry Kimball — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:23:35 CST

Yahoo is finally getting seriously social in a new partnership that will integrate Facebook Connect into its many properties. Yahoo users will be able monitor their Facebook feed on Yahoo, and vice versa. The integration will be done “on a deep level,” a Yahoo exec tells Kara Swisher, who finds...

Your Skin Can Help You Hear, Study Finds

Nick McMaster — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:59 CST

What you feel can influence what you hear, a new study suggests. People were better able to identify aspirated sounds—those requiring a puff of air, like “pa” or “ta”—when the sound was paired with a puff of air on the back of the hand or neck. If that...

Dutch Hope US Model Will Integrate Schools

Wesley Oliver — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:29:08 CDT

Dutch 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...

California to End Last Outpost of Segregation: Prisons

Peter Fearon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:51:54 CDT

California 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...

O'Connor's Imprint Fades

Nick McMaster — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:15:04 CDT

Even as Sandra Day O’Connor public profile as an advocate for Alzheimer’s disease research grows, the legal imprint of the first woman Supreme Court justice is fading, USA Today reports. Since her departure, the Roberts court has shifted course on abortion and retreated from positions supported by her swing vote...

Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

Colleen Barry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:37:33 CDT

Oliver Hill, a Virginia civil rights crusader whose work contributed to the Brown v. Board of Education decision against school segregation, died yesterday at 100. Described as "last lion of the civil-rights movement," Hill was a survivor of D-Day's Omaha Beach landing, and close friends with Justice Thurgood Marshall, the...