Archive for January, 2003

U.S. Schools Resegregating

Tuesday, January 21st, 2003

According to AP reports of a Harvard University study, U.S. schools are becoming more, rather than less segregated:
Public schools are slipping back into racial segregation, according to a study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
Released on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the nationwide analysis of enrollments from the 2000-2001 school […]

President to Oppose Race-Based Admissions

Wednesday, January 15th, 2003

President Bush plans to declare his opposition to University of Michigan admissions policies that give preference to black and Hispanic students, injecting the White House into the Supreme Court’s most far-reaching affirmative action case in a generation, administration officials said yesterday.
The officials said Bush, who faces a deadline Thursday for registering opposition with the high […]

Illinois Governor to Pardon Four on Death Row

Friday, January 10th, 2003

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 — Illinois Gov. George Ryan will pardon four death row inmates Friday who had allegedly been beaten into confessing to crimes in the early 1980s that they did not commit, a source involved in the discussions confirmed tonight.
Over the past several months, Ryan (R) has been reviewing the state’s 159 death row […]

Racial Disparities Found in Death Penalty

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

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Driving While Not White

Monday, January 6th, 2003

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