Racism

August 23, 2007 -- HARRISBURG - Two Philadelphia car dealerships entered into a $55,000 settlement agreement with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Civil Rights Enforcement Section for allegedly using discriminatory lending practices against African-American customers.

Attorney General Tom Corbett said the agreement was reached with Springfield Ford, 50 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, and Pacifico Ford, 6701 Essington Ave., Philadelphia. The agreement resolves claims that the two car dealerships violated the Consumer Protection Law and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Act.    » read more »

15 August 2007 -- It's been a turbulent week for Don Imus. While the controversial radio host reached an August 14 settlement with his former employer, CBS Radio, he also faces a lawsuit from a member of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

The settlement allows the 67-year-old shock jock to return to broadcasting at a different station, four months after making a racist and sexist remark about the Rutgers team members. It also pre-empts Imus' threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.    » read more »

Appointment of Racially Divisive Figure Raises Questions about His Mayoral Record on Race Relations

July 6, 2007 -- Rudy Giuliani will face tough questions today about whether or not he condones the racist comments of Arthur Ravenel, Jr., the new co-chair of his campaign in South Carolina. When he campaigns in the Palmetto State today, Giuliani should condemn Ravenel's long history of racially divisive statements, including his reference to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the "National Association for Retarded People" at a flag rally in 2000.    » read more »

Smooth Talking Mitt Should Give Clear Answer at Young Republicans Convention

July 6, 2007 -- Smooth talking Mitt Romney has an opportunity to make a strong statement about what brand of politics he believes is appropriate when he addresses the Young Republican National Convention tomorrow in Hollywood, Florida.

In recent years, College Republican chapters and other young Republican groups across the country have engaged in a series of bigoted and divisive stunts aimed at scapegoating groups of Americans for political gain.    » read more »

Meeting open to public in Olathe, Monday

June 15, 2007 -- Members of the Governor’s Task Force on Racial Profiling, a 15-member group appointed by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, will hold their regular monthly meeting on Monday afternoon, June 18 in Olathe. The business meeting at 2:45 PM will be followed at 5:00 PM by a town hall meeting, a “Community Conversation on Racial Profiling.”

Both events will take place at the Olathe City Hall, 100 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, and are open to the public.    » read more »

June 15, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Mississippi found James Ford Seale, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, guilty for his role in the kidnapping, abductions and eventual slayings of two African-American men in 1964.

Seale and other Klansmen conspired to abduct, interrogate, beat and eventually murder Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charlie Eddie Moore, both 19 years old at the time. According to evidence presented at trial, Seale and his co-conspirators believed that Dee might have knowledge about African Americans importing firearms to Franklin County.    » read more »

15 June 2007 -- A former policeman in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi has been convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the brutal murders of two black teenagers more than 40 years ago.

A jury deliberated two hours Thursday in a federal court in Jackson, Mississippi before finding 71-year-old James Seale guilty.

Seale, who could be sentenced to life in prison, was tried for the 1964 kidnappings of Henry Dee and Charles Moore, who were both 19 at the time.    » read more »

CHICAGO (June 4, 2007) – Generating heat while casting light, a spirited debate on the responsibility of rappers and the music industry for degradation of women was the focus of today’s Town Hall Meeting, part of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund 36th Annual Conference, being held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, 9300 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. in Rosemont through June 6.    » read more »

May 8, 2007 -- BOSTON – Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office obtained a civil rights injunction against two South Boston men accused of a racially-motivated attack on three men of Moroccan descent. The order, granted by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas Connolly, prohibits Kenneth Rooney, age 27, and Neil Woodworth, also age 27, from threatening, intimidating or coercing the victims or anyone else in the Commonwealth on the basis of actual or perceived race, ethnicity or national origin.    » read more »