Missouri: Blacks are stopped more than whites

<>African-American  motorists  were 40 percent more likely to be stopped by police in Missouri last year thanwhites, and black and Hispanic drivers were  twice as likely to besearched by authorities as whites after a stop,a state wide  report  says. [more]

No pattern of racial profiling by Grand Rapid - - Community Disagrees

<>For  years,Grand Rapids Police Chief Harry Dolan has insisted that racial profiling was not a problem permeating his department. [more]

60% Latino City has no Latino Political Representation

NUMBERS DON'T REFLECT POPULATION IN CITY-
Even as Latinos in East Palo Alto  clamor for more representation in city  government, only three have put their names forward to be on the city's advisory commissions and boards. Wednesday night, the city  council  approved all three. The dearth of Latino applicants echoes  earlier  findings by community non-profits that Latinos have extremely low rates  of civicparticipation in East Palo Alto -- despite the fact that they  account for nearly 60 percent of the population, more than any  other Bay Area city. [more]

Jury frees cops. Lawyer says testimony ignored

"It's  a  sad day for all Detroiters. Surely the city will suffer greatly, and there will be more people,  mostly African-American, framed up by these  deviant cops if they are allowed back on the force." [more]

Spelman Women to BET: No More Booty Videos

Spelman Women to BET: Don't You have anything else
to play on your network besides Booty Videos?
The  former Spelman  College Student Government Association President challenged the two  media moguls,Rupert Murdoch and Sumner  Redstone, during a stockholders meeting last week in New  York.  She  asked them to   explain why the revenues generated by pornographic hip hop  music videos  aired on Black Entertainment Television are worth the social  and  psychological cost to young people and  communities of color  around the globe. [more]

ACLU raps city in hip-hop dispute

The American Civil Liberties Union criticized Miami Beach's plans for handling and policing hip-hop festivities for Memorial Day weekend  [more]

In a Reverse Migration, Blacks Head to New South

<>California, other regions lose African Americans feeling the pull of 'home' and a slower pace.In what demographers are calling a "full scale reversal" of the Great Migration in the early part of the 20th century, blacks a releaving  California, NewYork,Illinois and New Jersey and retracing steps to a  place their families once fled --the South. [more]

Outdated methodology impairs Census Bureau's

Census 2000 showed a number of rural counties in the West, Midwest and Northeast that more  than doubled their Black   populations over  the previous decade. Is this some sort of reversal of the great  migration  that saw millions of  Blacks leave the rural South for Northern  cities? Is a new economic  opportunity drawing Blacks to leave cities for  rural places? Not quite. [more]

Prison expansion made 56 counties with declining populations appear to be growin

Counting  incarcerated  people  as if they were residents of the prison town leads to  misleading  portrayals of which counties are growing and which  are declining. [more] [See Prisoners of the Cenus for more info]

Minorities In Arizona Schools More Likely To Be Labeled Special Ed

Children enrolled in Arizona public schools are more  likely to find themselves placed in a special education program if they are  members of a  racial  group that  constitutes a minority in their  school, according to a new  study from the Goldwater Institute. [more]

White Prosecutors Clear Security Guards in 2000 mall death-

Prosecutors plan to drop the involuntary  manslaughter case today against a  security  guard charged four years agoin the racially tinged  death of  Frederick  Finley in the parking lot of Fairlane Town  Center in Dearborn."I'm  speechless," guardDennis Richardson said  late Thursday. "I'm  in shock.I have no ideawhat to say." [more]

Repairs made to Desecrated gravesite of James Byrd Jr

<>On  Thursday,a funeral home completed repairs to the desecrated gravesite  of a blackman from Jasper who was dragged to death. Workers from   Robinson Community Funeral Home repaired  the  gravesite of  James Byrd Jr.[more]

Lawyers for men accused of looting Indian Artifacts

Lawyers for two men accused of looting American Indian artifacts said Thursday that the real culpritis the U.S. Forest Service because it failed to mark the site on the  edge of Reno aculturally significant. [more]

Puerto Rican mayor Aleida Rios driven to start projects

<>After six monthsin office, Pittsburg Mayor Aleida Rios likes to say she's an action mayor. "I really shove the staff because I want closure to every issue," the first Puerto Rican woman mayor in the country said. [more]

Black Job Loss Déjà Vu

In  July  2003, Mary Clark  saw a notice posted by  the time clock at  the Pillowtex plant where she worked:the plant was  closing down at the  end  of the month. The company would be laying off 4,000 workers."They  acted like we was nobody," she said; Pillowtex even canceled the workers' accrued vacation days.  [more]