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US Sees Surge in Multiracial Population

Posted September 30th, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
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New figures released by the U.S. government from last year’s population count show the number of Americans who identify themselves as multiracial grew during the last decade. The Census Bureau says the number of Americans who described themselves as partly white and partly black grew to 1.8 million between 2000 and 2010, more than doubling […]

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Court Rules Australian Commentator Violated Racial Laws

Posted September 28th, 2011 at 4:10 am (UTC-5)
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An Australian court says a newspaper columnist violated an anti-discrimination law when he suggested that fair-skinned Aborigines identified themselves as such for personal gain. The judge ruled Wednesday that fair-skinned Aborigines were likely “to have been offended, insulted, humiliated or intimidated” by two articles by Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in 2009. Justice Mordy Bromberg […]

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