Tagged: Racial Classifications

The Sacramento Bee on Prop. 54 funding is questioned: With the election fast approaching, California voters trying to “follow the money” in Ward Connerly’s campaign to restrict race-based data quickly reach a dead end....

Emily Berg of the Victorville Daily Press on Educators confused over Prop. 54: Checking race and ethnic background boxes on government forms could come to an end in California. On the Oct. 7 recall...

Prop 54 would hide inequities in education: Would bar the state from gathering information on race By JENNIFER COLEMAN, The Associated Press For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:...

I have an op-ed appearing in ChronWatch today. Read it here.

Black leaders protest racial privacy initiative August 14, 2003 The San Francisco Examiner by Ethan Fletcher Julian Bond, national chairman of the NAACP, joined other African-American leaders Wednesday in San Francisco to speak out...

Is Colorblind Initiative Naive? August 13, 2003 KRON-TV The fight over race has always been a heated topic across the world and now it will be fought here in California. Prop 54 is generating...

L.A. mayor joins NAACP in opposing Prop. 54 August 13, 2003 Contra Costa Times by Sandra Marquez The head of the NAACP and Mayor James Hahn joined activists Tuesday in condemning the Racial Privacy...

Jesse Jackson to oppose Davis recall, Prop. 54 August 11, 2003 The Mercury News by Katherine Corcoran Joining the legions of national figures weighing in on California's wild gubernatorial recall, the Rev. Jesse Jackson...

Jackson leads fight on Prop. 54 August 11, 2003 The Tri-Valley Herald by Chauncey Bailey Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson urged voters Sunday to reject a measure that would prevent state agencies from collecting...

This needs an answer. Perhaps Stuart Hurlbert is best suited to answer this piece from his perspective in the biological sciences. Monday, August 11, 2003 (SF Chronicle) Racial initiative ignites medical worries/Researchers fear Prop....