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Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in...

Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- California conservatives were outraged in 1966 when the state Board of Education adopted a new junior high school history textbook. The book's inclusive treatment of the civil rights movement and influential black Americans would indoctrinate students, undermine religious values and politicize the...

New Jersey Transgender Man Says Firing Was Discriminatory

El'Jai Devoureau wants to be treated just like any other man. The 39-year-old New Jersey resident was born into a woman's body but says he's known from the very beginning that he is male. Apparently, though, Devoureau wasn't man enough for his former employer: The drug treatment center where he worked watching men urinate...

Arizona Bans Abortions Based on Sex, Race [VIDEO]

NY Fashion Exec Sues for $2 Million After Transfer to New Jersey

A senior manager at the New York fashion house Elie Tahari claims he had a mental breakdown after being forced to travel to New Jersey for work and is suing the company for $2 million. Thomas Horodecki says he was discriminated against by his Israeli bosses and passed over for promotions at work because he was Christian...

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How Romney Flipped On Affirmative Action In Massachusetts

With a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney quietly scuttled the state government's long-standing affirmative action policies.

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Joliet White Supremacist Jailed in Racist Arson Case

A Joliet white supremacist and disciple of incarcerated hate-monger Matt Hale was arrested today on charges he torched the home of eight black children in June 2007.

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Major Airline Accused Of Workplace Discrimination

Two dozen black pilots alleged in a lawsuit on Tuesday that United Continental Holdings, the parent of United Airlines, passed them over for management promotions because of race.

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Farrakhan: Obama First President To Sanction What Scriptures Forbid

Minister Louis Farrakhan recently responded to President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage calling him "the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid," according to a video posted by the Nation of Islam's "official" news source, Finalcall.com .

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Key Details Of The Kleiner Perkins Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers has been sued by Ellen Pao, one of its investment partners, for sexual harassment and gender discrimination that she has allegedly encountered during her seven years at the firm.

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06/03/12 Ballarat's poison pen shock Source: Stawell Times-News A BALLARAT Aboriginal elder is disgusted by a racially-taunting letter sent to him last week mocking indigenous beliefs and criticising a push for racial equality.
06/03/12 Asians Could Lose If High Court Rules Against College... Source: New America Media LOS ANGELES--The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review Fisher v.
06/03/12 Web letter by Mike Fromholt: Catholic hypocrisy on... Source: The Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne IN In August 1855 in Louisville, Ky., Protestant mobs, unhappy with the large influx of foreign Catholic immigrants (considered the illegal immigrants of the time) backed by a political group called the Know Nothings, attacked the German Catholic and Irish Catholic sections of the city, killing many and destroying property.
06/03/12 Obama Administration Combats Racist Air Source: The American Thinker The Obama Administration has identified the latest front in its tireless war against America's systemic injustice: asthma.
06/03/12 40 years ago: Downtown project on hold for affirmative... Source: Lawrence Journal-World & 6 News - Lawrence KS The downtown Lawrence improvement project had hit another snag.