Members of the MCBA, RBBA and GRAWA were represented on March 29 for the screening and discussion of a film titled: “I’m Not Racist … Am I?” The hour and a half documentary and discussion facilitators were introduced by West ...

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This week I had the conversation that most African-American parents at some point or another have to have with their child. No, not the birds and the bees; the talk regarding race in America, his place in it, and how ...

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A juror was not dismissed because of his race and jailhouse telephone calls were not private, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department has ruled in the attempted murder case of a former Buffalo man convicting of firing a rifle at his ...

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WASHINGTON — The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a state law barring the consideration of race in public university admission decisions is having an immediate effect on a set of closely watched appeals involving an entirely different issue: the ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court seemed prepared to uphold a voter-approved ban on taking account of race in college admissions. The court heard arguments last week over a 2006 change to the state constitution to prohibit the University of ...

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Nathan A. Van Loon doesn’t like the way things are working out for this generation of children. After discussing it with his wife, Van Loon said the time is right to run for Family Court judge because it’s something he ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action. The court heard arguments in a challenge to ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of ...

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WASHINGTON — To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would end use of the term “Negro,” count Hispanics as a mutually exclusive group and offer new ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas. The court ...

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BUFFALO — Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin is in the race for the New York congressional seat vacated by Christopher Lee in a scandal over a shirtless photo he’d reportedly sent to a woman he met on Craigslist.

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The Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on Minorities is set to host a conference “Race, Law and the Courts: Framing the Discussion for a Post Racial America” today in Manhattan.

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