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Minorities now officially a majority in Brazilupdated: Thu Jun 16 2011 21:42:00

The growing influence of Brazil's minority populations has not just created new opportunities for black and mixed-race Brazilians -- it has shifted demographics.

Firefighter criticizes Sotomayor rulingupdated: Thu Jul 16 2009 17:53:00

New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter Frank Ricci, the lead plaintiff in perhaps the most controversial case involving Judge Sonia Sotomayor, said Thursday that Sotomayor's rejection of his reverse discrimination claim had undermined the concept of a merit-based civil service system.

Firefighters testifyupdated: Thu Jul 16 2009 17:53:00

New Haven Firefighters testify at the nomination hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

High court backs firefighters in reverse discrimination suitupdated: Tue Jun 30 2009 11:05:00

The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a divisive case over the role race should play in job advancement.

GOP applauds, Dems criticize overturning Sotomayor rulingupdated: Mon Jun 29 2009 15:46:00

The political response to the Supreme Court's overturning a ruling by the woman who could be its newest member was sharply divided, with Republicans supporting the ruling while Democrats criticized it.

High court asked to untangle reverse discrimination caseupdated: Wed Apr 22 2009 20:54:00

The Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed varying degrees of concern Wednesday over a civil rights case brought by 20 firefighters, most of them white, who claim reverse discrimination in promotions.

Commentary: Obama picks show merit of diversityupdated: Fri Nov 21 2008 08:45:00

More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff.

United Europe celebrates ethnic diversityupdated: Thu Nov 20 2008 10:10:00

One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.

Races to watch: Campbell Brownupdated: Mon Nov 03 2008 17:26:00

Through Election Night, CNN.com users can customize their online election tracking through the site's "Your Races" feature.

Malaysia turns 50 amid tensionsupdated: Fri Aug 31 2007 04:50:00

Malaysia marked 50 years of independence Friday with dances and parades in a colorful show of ethnic unity that belied worsening race relations and growing fears about eroding minority rights.

Fortune: Best employers, most diverseupdated: Mon Jan 15 2007 08:01:00

Here are the top 10 firms on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For with the highest percentage of minority employees.

Building diversity at a global giantupdated: Thu Dec 15 2005 06:30:00

After paying more than $200 million in settlements of a series of discrimination lawsuits, Coca-Cola agreed to establish a diversity task force to ensure more minorities were represented in the company's management.

New motion details racial profiling claims against Billboard magazineupdated: Wed Apr 06 2005 11:10:00

Lawyers for two ex-Billboard magazine staffers who are suing their former employer over their May 2004 dismissal claim racial profiling took place in the offices of the music industry's oldest trade publication.

Race-based affirmative action admissionsupdated: Fri Jan 07 2005 18:14:00

A forthcoming law review article by UCLA professor Rick Sander is causing a big stir in the legal academic community. Sander's piece in the Stanford Law Review argues that race-based affirmative action as practiced by American law schools during the past 30 years actually ends up hurting the group -- African American law students -- it is most intended to help.

Race a focus in Iowa presidential debateupdated: Mon Jan 12 2004 00:43:00

The issue of race drew much attention at the last scheduled Democratic debate before the January 19 Iowa Caucuses -- the first referendum of the 2004 presidential campaign.

Fortune: Why Mentoring Works Everyone can use help navigating corporate culture-- especially minorities.updated: Mon Jul 09 2001 00:01:00

Companies have tried all sorts of things to improve corporate life for minority employees. Many efforts fail, but one approach has proved so successful that it should be a staple at every concerned...

Fortune: What Minority Employees Really Want IT'S SIMPLE: INCLUSION, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND OPPORTUNITY. BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE REALLY PRupdated: Mon Jul 10 2000 00:01:00

A group of scientists from Lucent Technologies' vaunted Bell Labs are eating lunch and talking about the most delicate subject in corporate America, or anywhere else in America: race. Over sandwich...

Fortune: No More Crude at Texaco Texaco hasn't quite overcome its image as the embodiment of corporate racism. Yet thanks to management'supdated: Mon Sep 06 1999 00:01:00

It's known as "The Crisis" around Texaco's sprawling office headquarters in a leafy suburb north of New York City, which is certainly apropos. It was the embarrassing and expensive saga that forced...

Fortune: 1. Pacific Enterprises: Keeping Talent After being encouraged to explore jobs elsewhere, most employees stay put.updated: Mon Aug 03 1998 00:01:00

Berlinda Fontenot-Jamerson didn't plan on spending her entire career at Pacific Enterprises when she joined the utility as a clerk-typist. In fact, she was studying to be a social worker and intend...

Fortune: WHY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WON'T DIE REPUBLICANS, THE COURTS, AND CALIFORNIA HAVE DECLARED WAR ON IT. BUT RAupdated: Mon Nov 13 1995 00:01:00

The racial-preference policies lumped together under the label "affirmative action" seem to be reaching the end of their collective road. The Republican majority in Congress and most GOP presidenti...

Money Magazine: WOMEN COULD BE BIG LOSERS IF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FALLSupdated: Tue Aug 01 1995 00:01:00

MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...

Fortune: BLACKS ON BLACKS Leading African Americans speak out on racism, the black middle class, rebuilding our inner cities, welfare refupdated: Mon Nov 02 1992 00:01:00

WHY can't we all get along?'' Rodney King's question still resonates six months after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers who beat him, a verdict that triggered the worst riot in the ...

Fortune: A FRESH VIEW OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A black Yale law professor argues that granting racial preferences, while once justified, is updated: Mon Sep 23 1991 00:01:00

Stephen Carter was studying law in 1978 when the Supreme Court's ruling in the celebrated Bakke case imposed limits on affirmative action. At the time, he and other black students at Yale felt that...

Fortune: Our government fails an acid test, how to buy politicians, California conspiracies, and other matters. COLLEGE IN CALIFORNIA: THupdated: Mon Feb 11 1991 00:01:00

Being somewhat prejudiced against conspiracy theories, we were a bit slow to embrace one that surfaced last year in the course of the never-ending racial rows over college admissions. The theory pe...

Fortune: Biology in Dallas, psychologists vs. Teddy Kennedy, the case for frontier justice, and other matters. THE WHOLE POINT OF AFFIRMAupdated: Mon Jul 02 1990 00:01:00

By way of elaborating the headline, we begin obliquely with the saga of Kateri Tekakwitha. A Mohawk Indian maiden born in 1656, Kateri was exposed to Christian doctrine by Jesuit missionaries and b...

Fortune: TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW SOCIETY SHELBY STEELE LET'S STOP SHAKING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL ON RACEupdated: Mon Mar 26 1990 00:01:00

Whenever groups of people take it upon themselves to make race important, the search for power is behind that. This is the real problem. White slave traders made race important -- made whites super...

Fortune: HOLDING FIRM ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Despite disappointments and a recent Supreme Court reversal, most top executives intend to prupdated: Mon Mar 13 1989 00:01:00

BY SOME YARDSTICKS, affirmative action could be judged a failure. Twenty-five years have passed since the two words entered the law's vocabulary, yet only one black leads a FORTUNE 500 or Service 5...

Fortune: Unamazing economic news, embarrassing Asian Americans, a call for iron bars, and other matters. QUOTAS ON CAMPUS: THE NEW PHASEupdated: Mon Jan 30 1989 00:01:00

It had to happen, so now it is happening. Racial preference in college admissions, legitimized by the Supreme Court's infamous Bakke decision in 1978, is now being used against the wrong people. Ev...

Fortune: The Bad News About Latin, Guys and Dolls, Backtalk Before Breakfast, and Other Matters. Literacy on the Rightupdated: Mon Sep 14 1987 00:01:00

The arresting new idea out there is something called ''cultural literacy,'' and it is all spelled out in a best-selling book by E. D. Hirsch Jr. bearing that title and subtitled What Every American...

Fortune: The Handsome and the Homeless, Our Possibly Most Lovable Law, A Dry Case for Socialism, and Other Matters. The 8(a) Folliesupdated: Mon Feb 02 1987 00:01:00

Given the magnitude involved, Nexis produced an answer with astonishing swiftness -- about 20 seconds, we estimated. To be sure, our favorite electronic database may have had a lot of practice deal...

Fortune: Dubious Distinctionsupdated: Mon Jun 23 1986 00:01:00

We have closely studied the opinions delivered by five different Supreme Court factions in the case of Wygant et al. v. Jackson Board of Education et al., and you know what? We still cannot figure ...

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