Race / Ethnic Issues

When "Civil Rights" Means Ending Affirmative Action

by Anne Landman — April 2, 2008 - 11:07am

People in Colorado who signed an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative petition are charging that petition circulators deceived them about the measure's real purpose and intent.

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New York Times, April 1, 2008

What About McCain's Pastor Problem?

by Anne Landman — March 21, 2008 - 2:58pm

While news media have focused on Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright, little attention has been paid to the endorsement of Republican presidential candidate

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Editor & Publisher, March 20, 2008

MultiVu Goes MultiCultural

by Diane Farsetta — March 20, 2008 - 1:04pm

The PR firm MultiVu has a new "social media news release targeting the U.S. Hispanic audience," reports PR Week. Its "Interactivo Multimedia News Release" (IMNR) distributes fake news "broadcast content, photos, and text to Hispanic social networks and news sites.

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PR Week, March 19, 2008

How to Swift Boat Barack Obama?

by Sheldon Rampton — March 19, 2008 - 9:08am

Republican strategists are salivating over the "inflammatory sermons by Obama's pastor" Jeremiah Wright. They believe that Wright's sermons "offer the party a pathway to victory if Obama emerges as the Democratic nominee.

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Politico.com, March 19, 2008

Indigenous Matters

by Sheldon Rampton — September 15, 2007 - 3:11pm

Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, a Republican law firm with close ties to the White House, has registered as a lobbyist on the issue of registering the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians in California as a federally recognized tribe, but Jerry Reynolds writes in Indian Country Today that it's not clear "whether BGR is lobbying for or against Juaneno recognition," and it's also not clear who is paying them.

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Indian Country Today, August 24, 2007

Framing the War on Terror

by Sheldon Rampton — September 12, 2007 - 1:56am

The Gallup polling organization marked the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by publishing a thoughtful analysis challenging the assumption that "religious fanaticism fuels extremism and therefore replacing Muslims' worldview with Western liberalism is the path to victory against terrorism. ... As a starting point, Muslims do not hold a monopoly on extremist views.

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Gallup World Poll, September 11, 2007

My Bucks Are Beautiful to P&G

by Diane Farsetta — August 28, 2007 - 2:44pm

The biggest U.S. advertiser, Procter & Gamble, is launching "a new multibrand campaign called 'My Black Is Beautiful,'" reports Advertising Age. The brainchild of P&G multicultural marketing director Najoh Tita Reid, the campaign seeks to "make all black girls and women" feel beautiful, while forging "a closer relationship between P&G brands and their black consumers." According to P&G research, "71% of black women feel they're portrayed worse than other women in media and advertising.

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Advertising Age, August 27, 2007
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