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Reporter and Metro columnist for the New York Times and author of American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
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Rachel Swarns
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FROM Rachel Swarns
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Minority Union Workers Get Back Pay after Years of Discrimination After decades of litigation over policies of racial discrimination, the practice still exists in some major American labor unions. Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers in New York City advertises “Opportunity, Diversity and Middle Class Careers.” But pictures of blacks, whites and Hispanics working closely together obscure a “stark racial divide,” according to Rachel Swarns of the New York Times in a story about a legal case first filed by the Justice Department 44 years ago.
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Congress Dragging Its Feet on Immigration Reform As Congress returns from its August recess, a CNN poll finds that 76 percent of Americans are angry about the way the country's being run. The number planning to back a challenger in November's elections is higher than it was in 1994, when the Republicans took control from the Democrats. President Bush made immigration reform a priority for this year, and Republicans held 20 hearings last month all over the country. So, why has it dropped off their agenda? Will the GOP or the Democrats take the heat for a lack of action next time voters go to the polls?
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What is Trump's plan for Middle East peace? On his first foreign tour, President Trump has promised "peace" between Israel and the Palestinians. Are there any details for re-starting talks that have been stalled for the past three years?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.