In recent months, the name Ward Connerly has become as common to Michiganders as Detroit Tiger baseball is to the World Series. He's that African American businessman and former member of the University of California's Board of Regents who helped launched the campaign to ban affirmative action in Michigan. In 1961, President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 and created the Committee on Equal Employment which mandates that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices were free of racial bias. Then in 1965 President Johnson introduced affirmation action as the answer to addressing discrimination and racial inequality in education and jobs. His policy required that procedures be taken to ensure Blacks and other minorities...
... prejudice its members' children, an actionable form of injury under the Equal Protection Clause, ... President Carter's support for affirmation action). And during the same time, hundreds of loc...
Last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her resignation. Since she was a proponent of affirmative action programs, in discussing her record last week, the issue of affirmative action has continued to surface. One of the most annoying criticisms of affirmation action is how these programs supposedly negatively stigmatize the people they are meant to help -- namely African Americans.
... the Act provide that a decision or other action by a reviewing entity is subject to judicial revie... the Board, or of a timely reversal, affirmation, or modification by the Administrator of a final B...
African American business owners are succeeding despite inadequate start-up capital, competition, and anti-affirmation action sentiments. Expansion is double the rate of the overall business community. Awards were made to the 1998 top emerging company, business innovator, rising star and kidpreneur.
The Yale-New Haven Smilow Cancer Center opening this fall reminds us of our community's determination to treat cancer. I hope the Smilow Center will not be viewed simply as a fortress in the fight against cancer, but also as an expression of the will to live. Cancer, like diabetes and high blood pressure, is a chronic illness with which people live -- like it or not. My views are rooted in my 35-year career as a psychiatrist caring for the medically ill and my experience as a diabetic for 50 years. Living with a chronic illness is best served by acceptance, affirmation and action. Acceptance is owning chronic illness as part of who we are. It is traditionally viewed as a late-stage adaptation following denial, anger and grief.
Includes related article on diversity-management seminar The movement called 'managing diversity' is gaining popularity in Corporate America. Advocates proclaim that managing diversity transcends affirmation action and seeks to remove standards that are biased in favor of white males. They hope that this will give way to workforce organizations that allow equal representation and legitimacy to the cultural norms of all ethnic groups. Despite the high cost of instituting diversity-management programs, an increasing number of companies are signing up because they believe that these would eventually result in positive bottom-line effects. Managing diversity helps solve problems related to employee morale, minority retention and company productivity. Organizations that decide to manage div...
Based on accounts from the scene, it looks like things are getting worse in a hurry in Darfur. At the U.N. summit in September, countries included an affirmation of their "responsibility to protect" their populations and the necessity for collective action to protect people when a government fails in this basic responsibility - or worse, as in the case of the Sudan government, is actively complicit in war crimes against civilians. It would be tragic if, having declared this bold new principle, governments couldn't then bring themselves to act on it effectively in Darfur. The problem is as it was: The Janjaweed militia - armed bands of killers, marauders and rapists of Arab origin set up to fight a burgeoning armed resistance movement - have acted in conjunction with forces of the Kharto...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Action Vice President of Government and Public Policy Tom Minnery today released the following statement in response to the Louisiana Supreme Court upholding that state's marriage amendment, striking down an earlier decision by State District Court Judge William Morvant: We applaud the unanimous decision handed down today by the Louisiana Supreme Court -- a decision that upholds the will of the people -- expressed so clearly last September by 78 percent of the voters. These justices saw that protecting marriage was the goal of the people, and their ruling demonstrates the proper constitutional role of the judiciary -- a role that does not usurp the rights of the people or their elected representatives.
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