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Rights panel chides Paris on RomaSTRASBOURG, France — Europe's top human rights watchdog accused France on Tuesday of stigmatizing Roma people by blaming them for crime and expelling them from the country.
Ag secretary meets with Shirley SherrodWASHINGTON — The USDA employee who was pushed out of her job during a racial firestorm last month met Tuesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss coming back to work at the agency.
Ag secretary to meet with Shirley SherrodWASHINGTON — The USDA employee who was pushed out of her job during a racial firestorm last month is set to meet with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss coming back to work at the agency.
Shirley Sherrod to meet with ag secretary Tuesday
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- Shirley Sherrod makes amends with NAACP after group’s president condemned her for comments
- Human Rights Watch says Kyrgyzstan’s army abetted ethnic violence against minority Uzbeks
- Suspected US missiles kill 12 people in Pakistan’s Waziristan region: intelligence officials
- Police: Gunmen kill 16 people in southwest Pakistan in apparent ethnic-based attacks
- South African rights group investigates fresh allegations of racism in new video showing abuse
- Black members of tea party dispute claims of racism within grass-roots movement
- Former students fined after pleading guilty to charges in racist video case in South Africa
- South Africa abolishes 6 traditional monarchies; leaders to challenge demotion in court
- Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue conservative blogger over edited video
- ADL: California had 275 anti-Semitic incidents, most in nation, in 2009
- S. African white students plead guilty over urine-tainted food, drink in racism video case
- Ousted agriculture official Sherrod unsure about returning to work; wants to talk to Obama
- Tea party leader and ex-Calif. radio host cuts ties to his group after controversial blog post
- In ABC News interview, Obama says Ag secretary ‘jumped the gun’ in dismissing Shirley Sherrod
- Obama calls ousted Ag official; Voices regret over her ‘misfortune’ because of racial furor
- Sherrod says no apology necessary from Obama; Says she would like to talk race issues with him
- South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu to retire from public life in October at 79
- Agriculture Dept. tries to move past uproar over race; ousted employee considers new job
- Agriculture Department dismissal pushes debate over black racism to the forefront
- Ag Secretary Vilsack says he offered Sherrod ‘unique’ post; she says she’s considering return
- Sherrod says Vilsack offers to rehire her after ousting and she’s considering
- White House apologizes to ousted ag worker, says she was wronged in firing over racial remarks
- White House apologizes to ousted USDA worker, says she was wronged
- White House: Vilsack contacting USDA worker to apologize for forced ouster over racial remarks
- Jesse Jackson talks with Ag Sec Vilsack; Says he wants an apology for USDA employee’s exit
- Woman forced out at Agriculture over racial remarks unsure she would return, even if asked
- Vilsack says USDA will reconsider ouster of employee who resigned over race comments
- UN: Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan facing torture, beatings and other human rights violations
- South African kids flown from Mandela’s birthplace to celebrate anti-apartheid icon’s birthday
- Bomb scare on flight from far western China forces emergency landing, no explosives found
- Sharpton, Jackson try to divert attention from NAACP resolution condemning racism in tea party
- NAACP delegates pass resolution condemning racism within tea party, say group is dividing US
- NAACP delegates debate resolution condemning racism within tea party, say group is dividing US
- UN, US officials visit site of Kyrgyzstan clashes as humanitarian crisis enters new phase
- Kyrgyz investigators exhume ethnic violence victims amid tensions ahead of referendum
- Dutch justice minister: use of “decoy Jews” to fight anti-Semitism an option
- Human Rights Watch says Kyrgyz troops launch new raids of Uzbek areas in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Rights group says Kyrgyz police attack ethnic Uzbek village, killing 2 and wounding 20
- Nico Smith, white anti-apartheid cleric who lived in black township, dies at 81
- Kyrgyz interim leader visits Osh, vows to restore city partially destroyed by ethnic violence
- Handful of Uzbek refugees return to Osh as ethnic violence subsides in riot-hit Kyrgyzstan
- US dispatching senior diplomat to Kyrgyzstan to weigh aid requests after ethnic violence
- Renewed gunbattles erupt, buildings torched in Kyrgyzstan, scarred by ethnic violence
- Uzbekistan says over 75,000 Uzbek refugees have fled ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan
- Kremlin says Russia won’t immediately send troops to Kyrgyzstan to quell ethnic violence
- Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader asks Russia to send troops to quell ethnic violence
- At least 12 people killed in a new wave of unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Top US refugee official says Myanmar election must be fair for refugees to return home
- France’s interior minister convicted of making racist comments, fined euro750
- Growth of interracial marriage slows as more US Hispanics, Asians seek to pair with immigrants
- Synagogue says its members will use Philadelphia-area swim club accused of race discrimination
- Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert, white who helped South Africa chart way out of apartheid, dies
- China says Internet service in western Xinjiang region fully restored 10 months after riots
- Pa. swim club accused of discriminating against black children is sold at bankruptcy auction
- Foundation to provide $75 million in community grants to foster racial equity
- Ex-journalist James Leeson, who wrote about race relations and education, dead at 79 in Tenn.
- Former president of South Africa’s Black Sash, a leading anti-apartheid movement, dies
- For kin of those killed in civil rights era, fear of racial violence lingers decades later
- China replaces Communist Party boss in Xinjiang region, hit by ethnic violence last year
- Family friend: Benjamin Hooks, longtime civil rights and NAACP leader, dies in Memphis at 85
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing Holocaust memorial: Stop Iran
- Report: Anti-Semitic incidents doubled worldwide last year, Gaza war blamed
- SAfrica president blasts youth leader who defied party in Zimbabwe, verbally abused journalist
- Security tight as mourners gather for funeral for prominent South African white supremacist
- South African ruling party directs officials to stop singing ‘polarizing’ songs
- Cambodia bristles at US aid cut over deportations of Chinese Uighur asylum-seekers
- National treasure or hate speech? South Africa debates controversial song about killing whites
- Please don’t make us integrate: First black rector faces challenges at S. African school
- Iraqis await full election results Friday; tight race prompts warnings of renewed bloodshed
- Rights groups: Social networking sites being used to spread racism, xenophobia
- Vandals spray anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust monument in Poland
- Fatima Meer, Mandela friend and biographer, anti-apartheid activist dead at 81
- Mandela’s ex-wife denies interview criticizing anti-apartheid icon in British newspaper
- Mandela’s ex-wife denies criticizing anti-apartheid icon in British newspaper interview
- Criticism of Mandela by ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, makes headlines in South Africa
- Irish tenor adopted by Yankees and disowned after anti-Semitic remark leaves NYC for Boston
- Pomp and ceremony as Queen Elizabeth welcomes South African president on state visit to the UK
- Students storm UC San Diego chancellor’s office racial conflict of noose in school library
- HUD asks gay communities in Chicago, New York, San Francisco to help with discrimination study
- After 7 years without a mascot, Ole Miss votes on whether to pursue a successor to Colonel Reb
- South Africans celebrate 20th anniversary of Mandela’s release after 27 years in prison
- Britain’s Gordon Brown condemns record number of UK anti-Semitic incidents
- Mandela, fellow anti-apartheid vets, family celebrate 20th anniversary of his release
- Jewish Group: Anti-Semitic acts soar 75% in France in 2009; many during Mideast violence
- Israeli report: 2009 saw most anti-Semitic incidents in western Europe since World War II
- Obama and family serve lunch to needy, part of day of events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
- Turkey’s Jews say anti-Semitism is a risk when Israeli-Turkish relations become strained
- In punishing black soccer star, Italian league sends wrong message on racism
- Justice Department sues suburban Philly swim club for race bias after city day campers barred
- Wheelock College in Boston establishes Race Amity Center to foster dialogue, learning
- In alien adventure ‘Avatar,’ blue-skinned natives’ white savior makes some see racist subtext
- Poet, anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus dies at 85; was jailed with Mandela in S. Africa
