Minority rights

dance, aquatics, volleyball, support groups and camps. These programs help kids better their lives through interaction and activity. Racial Justice and Civil Rights program supports policies that contribute to the elimination of racism. This includes, but is not limited to, policies that eliminate racial profiling, increase immigrant rights, retain and strengthen affirmative action, reduce hate crimes and result in increased education on racism and its…

Shepherd Squad or GSS had attacked my parents and tried to set our house on fire. They are a group of anti-Pit Bull supremacists known to attack and threaten Pit Bulls. I tried to abide by the rules that were given to us knowing that they weren’t right but I have had enough. Attacking my family was the last straw. Something needed to be done. I started to send out a message to other Pit Bulls to gather at the center of City Hall on the morning of the first Monday of January. In the message I…

Philip Randolph created the March on Washington Movement to demand equality in the defense industries (Taylor). Prominent civil rights organizations also supported this March on Washington in 1941, including the NAACP and the Urban League (Taylor). The threat of the March on Washington greatly scared President Roosevelt, so he and his cabinet members drafted Executive Order 8802…

many more to come. For those who do not quite know or don’t fully understand what Affirmative Action is, it is best described as Policies in which higher level education and organizations make efforts to improve opportunities for underrepresented minorities. It also takes into account race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. Not only is affirmative action wrong and unethical in higher level education, but also for job opportunities in the workplace. The term…

were victimized from slavery and Jim Crow laws in the South. College admissions advisor no longer base their affirmative action givens on the Jim Crow laws which ended in 1965. They base their givens now on race and ethnicity and which being the minority comes into place. However, the process of affirmative action in higher education has been given to people whom families were not discriminated against by society and can damn near pay for college. Nicolaus Mills’ research on who benefits from…

and to help them interpret and conceptualize knowledge (Ladson-Billings, 1992). For this to work and be effective, minority cultures must be acknowledged as a vital strength and asset instead of just adapting the white Caucasian to fit the needs of all minorities (Ladson-Billings, 1992). Teachers must also recognize that culturally relevant teaching addresses the needs of minorities as a whole instead of individual empowerment (Ladson-Billings,…

Canadians are continuing to keep such negative thoughts hidden, only to come out when they have the power to accept or turn away a visible minority. Research by Esses et al. (2007) has shown that White Canadians are often uncomfortable around visible minorities and would rather be around people of their own ethnic group. This is due to the perception that visible minorities are competing with native-born Canadians for economic resources and cultural dominance. Sidanius, Pratto, van Laar, and…

Is TV Too White? Visible minorities make up less than 30% of all those who appear in the top 100 films of 2014, according to University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication (Smith et al). A number which is too low to represent the diversity of multicultural countries such as Canada, United States, Australia, etc. When asked what are the difficulties of working in the entertainment industry, amateur actors from various backgrounds mostly mention the complicated task of…

found the representation of minorities has not changed enough to see a well-rounded representation of ethnicities in special education. More so, the authors have seen a reduction in students of African descent with Intellectual Disabilities (ID). This is not surprising, as diagnosis of ID in students with African descent cannot occur. The reduction comes from the lack of ability to label students rather than the diagnosis being more culturally sensitive to minority students. Additionally,…

over the use of the phrase to coin such crimes deemed to be fuelled by strong feelings of hatred based on the grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or transgender identity. It is clear that hate crimes tend to be directed at minority groups in society. A selected example under discussion here is going to be racism. Also the way the Courts acknowledge and treat these hate crimes will be discussed. Racism can be defined as attitudes and opinions of others which bring about a…