NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Voting Rights Act Challenger

Jay Goodman Tamboli speaks with Jeffrey Robinson, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, about today's Supreme Court arguments on the challenge the the Voting Rights Act. (8:32)
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NAACP: Employers ought to be able to avoid discriminating against employees

John Payton, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, speaks with Legal Affairs Correspondent Jay Goodman Tamboli about today's oral arguments in Ricci v. Destefano, regarding firefighters suing over alleged reverse discrimination in New Haven's refusal to certify qualifying exams for captain and lieutenant positions. (8:26)
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Krugman: Race is our original sin in this country

by Christina Lovato, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News service

Today at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services hearing, Paul Krugman, a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University said that race is our original sin in this country. Krugman also talks about universal health care coverage and issues about race. (01:17)
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Minority teens more likely to be moms

Sarah S. Brown, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy says that great progress was made in decreasing teen pregnancy in the 1990s, but then lists disturbing statistics of teen pregnancy rates by age at a briefing held by the campaign on racial and ethnic disparities in teen pregnancy.(1:04)
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL9) and the Obama Campaign Respond to Geraldine Ferraro in a Press Conference Call

U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL9) and representatives of Barack Obama's Democratic primary campaign held a press conference call to respond to recent comments by Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY 9) (also a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton) that "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position ... And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." (17:00)
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Jared Bernstein discusses racial disparities in health care

Mr. Bernstein, Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute and co-editor of "All Things Being Equal," talks about the growing disparity between access to adequate health care between Caucasians and minorities. (1:30)
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Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL 4) and Asst. Director of ICE Gary Mead Discuss Immigration Policy at House Judiciary Committee Hearing

Mr. Gutierrez questions Mr. Mead about an incident in which 100 Hispanic men were detained at a Chicago mall pursuant to a criminal warrant, asking if such a practice is common or sanctioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) .(0:50)
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