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1. Newark metro area remains as segregated at it was 40 years ago, housing advocate says
(N.J./State)

Kevin Walsh of Fair Share Housing Center cites new census figures BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A study of census data finds racial segregation in New Jersey is as bad as it was four decades ...

2. Ploop!
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So many people asking, "why's race gotta be brought into this?" The article clearly brought race into the situation. And another article (ap) said it harkened from the times of segregation...(puke).....BS! ...

3. how is it segregation ?
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Gays have the right to own businesses, go get an education, play sports, practice politics, and they absolutely play a major role in Hollywood and the Music Industry. That's a lot of freedom that not even ...

4. A frank summertime conversation about gays and lesbians
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... he felt marginalized. He said that the "segregation" policy sensitized his group and made them more aware of what it's like to be put in a box according to your sexual orientation. Then someone asked ...

5. Typical Conservative Viewpoint.
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... Act states that all children have the right to an adequate education. Remember Brown vs, Board?? yea well our schools are less integrated now than they were following the ruling of the famous anti segregation ...

6. Millions of Americans facing foreclosure
(U.S./Nation)

... people of color. The growing activism around evictions can be likened to the anti-segregation protests of the 1960s, Meacham said. "More than anything I've ever been involved in, the growth of the movement ...

7. Arizona
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... us from all other countries of the World and makes us great. Arizona has been taken over by anti-Hispanic forces who are as racist as the segregationists in our South and the leaders of Apartheid in South ...

8. Now That's Funny: A college course in gay marriage
(Life/Style)

... Nazism or segregation, and I'm sure you can find those ideas in the course curriculum. If this isn't proof that gay culture is moving into the mainstream, I don't know what is. It looks like the military's ...

9. Black athletes faced a very different America before Civil Rights Act of 1964
(Sports/Professional)

... go through you don't want to go through to talk about the same thing during the winter. Let's talk about something positive, let's be comfortable, let's be happy." Robinson and Doby faced segregation. ...

10. Analysis finds suburban funding of N.J. affordable housing in cities was a failure
(N.J./State)

... that increased racial segregation and decreased access to employment. The analysis found that RCAs were transferred from suburbs that were on average 7 percent African-American and Latino to cities and ...

11. N.J. NAACP files ethics complaint against Sens. Lesniak and Bateman
(N.J./State)

... said the NJ NAACP believes that the legislation proposed by Lesniak and Bateman would increase racial and economic segregation in New Jersey. The organization also opposes the reinstatement of regional ...

12. Princeton’s Thomas Espenshade takes on affirmative action and the racial achievement gap
(Life/Style)

... decision ending segregation under a previous "separate but equal" doctrine. How does your research look at this question of educational equality? A: We say in the beginning that our aim is to pull back ...

13. What's so bad about it?
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I don't see why people discriminate homosexuals. It's segregation all over again in my opinion, and it's wrong to judge gay people like that. I think people should just get over it and face reality for ...

14. Lesniak sets vote to abolish New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing
(N.J./State)

... scourge of racial and economic segregation the lack of affordable housing in the suburbs has caused. "The fact is the cities that saw the rise in the last two decades of regional contributions have seen ...

15. NAACP charges Lesniak and Bateman with conflict of interest relating to N.J. affordable housing
(N.J./State)

... would increase racial and economic segregation in New Jersey and opposes the reinstatement of regional contribution agreements and the ability of municipalities to self-certify that they have met their ...

16. Two African-American teens prove ‘We Shall Overcome' applies to individual lives, too
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... sexual talk, she kept saying, "It's my constitutional right!" Later she was found guilty of violating the segregation law, disturbing the peace, and "assaulting" the policemen. She was put on probation, ...

17. Just what is a filibuster, anyway?
(U.S./Nation)

... designed to end segregation. It became the tool of hatred and bigotry and helped mightily to prevent Congress from passing a single Civil Rights bill between the 1870's and 1957. The landmark Civil Rights ...

18. Gays in the military debate moves forward with pressure to end ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
(U.S./Nation)

... during the 1950s after racial segregation in the military was outlawed. She believes that laws should not be retained or repealed merely because some people are uncomfortable with them. The controversy ...

19. Why choice and charter schools matter to New Jersey
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BY DR. FRANK J. ESPOSITO COMMENTARY Born in the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960's, school choice was initially created as a means of facilitating school desegregation through magnet schools ...

20. Chinh Le approved as New Jersey’s civil rights director
(N.J./State)

... desegregation, voting rights, higher education affirmative act ion and school vouchers. Le was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Springfield, Virginia. He received a bachelor of arts degree from ...