Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn’t trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Wal-Mart salary on a prepaid debit card. Kim James was homeless for most of the past decade in part because she had no place to save money. There are plenty of reasons people still live all-cash lives, but [...]
Poverty in America: 20 Percent of African-Americans Live Without Bank Accounts
April 22, 2013 | Posted by
When It Comes to Minority Partners at Law Firms, Read the Fine Print
April 9, 2013 | Posted by
Sometimes it pays to read beyond the headlines. I was watching my goddaughter participate in a high school moot court competition over the weekend and during a break, I picked up the March issue of “The National Jurist,” a magazine for law students. A headline in the table of contents caught my attention: “Why Asian- [...]
Mitt Romney Attacked for Saying Obama Won after ‘Gifts’ to Blacks, Hispanics, Young
November 15, 2012 | Posted by
In a continuing display of how out of touch he is with the rest of the country and how clueless his campaign was about the factors that led to his resounding defeat, Mitt Romney yesterday on a phone call with wealthy donors to his campaign claimed that he lost because President Obama gave “gifts” to [...]
Minorities Make Up Less than 10 Percent of Large Campaign Donations
November 4, 2012 | Posted by
American minorities may speak with their votes come Election Day, but during the campaign season, many chose not to speak with their dollar. An analysis conducted by the Associated Press uncovered that the vast majority of sizable donations towards either campaign came from wealthy white neighborhoods. Though minorities and specifically Latino voters may be a [...]
Ann Coulter Believes Civil Rights Should Be Limited to ‘Blacks’
September 24, 2012 | Posted by
Ann Coulter is no stranger to controversy as the outspoken conservative and wildly offensive pundit on FOX News. Her comments always draw debate and ratings, but as of late have been rudely directed towards blacks in America, immigrants, minorities and civil right access surrounding the November election. During a roundtable discussion on Sunday’s popular “This [...]
Black Women Now Live Longer Than White Women without HS Diploma
September 21, 2012 | Posted by
A new study on life expectancy in the United States has unearthed a rather shocking discovery: Among women without a high school diploma, black women now live longer than white women. The study, which was published last month in Health Affairs magazine, contains some generally depressing news for uneducated whites, as they are showing extreme [...]
Blacks, Hispanics Targeted at Airports for Stops, Searches
August 12, 2012 | Posted by
It turns out that the TSA’s much touted “behavior detection” program that was supposed to be a sophisticated, new age way of picking out potential terrorists has degenerated into just another law enforcement method of using racial profiling to pick out blacks and Latinos who look “suspicious,” according to a high number of complaints from [...]
Blacks and Hispanics Confuse About ‘Pro-Life’ and ‘Pro-Choice’?
July 29, 2012 | Posted by
A majority of African Americans believe that abortion is morally wrong but still think it should be legally available. According to a poll of blacks and Hispanics conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. Hispanics on the other hand had a closer correlation between their views of abortion’s morality and its legal status. A total [...]
President Obama May Win Arizona With Hispanic Support
June 20, 2012 | Posted by
On the heels of President Obama’s executive order granting two-year renewable amnesty protections to young illegal immigrants, many Hispanics in Arizona believe the president actually has a chance to win the state, a hotbed for radical Republican ideas. While Arizona has received plenty of notoriety in recent years for measures such as the one that [...]
President Obama’s Immigration Action Popular Among Hispanic Voters
June 19, 2012 | Posted by
A new poll of Hispanic voters demonstrates the huge boost that President Obama’s recent policy announcement on immigration has given to his re-election chances. Latinos were displeased with the president’s immigration policies before his announcement, primarily because his administration has deported more than 1.1 million people, the highest number for any president since the 1950s. [...]
