2 Iowa towns offer different perspectives on immigration raids; both want feds to alter policyPOSTVILLE, Iowa — For immigrant advocates, the raid on a meatpacking plant in Postville last May was evidence of all that is wrong with large-scale arrests of illegal workers. Texas case to be heard by justices Wednesday tests election provision of voting rights lawAUSTIN, Texas — The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn’t built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia. Texas case to be heard by justices Wednesday tests election provision of voting rights lawAUSTIN, Texas — The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn’t built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia. South Africa’s ANC wins voter majority, parliament expected to elect Jacob Zuma presidentPRETORIA, South Africa — South African elections results released Saturday show the African National Congress might have fallen short of winning its cherished two-thirds parliamentary majority. But the tally affirmed the ruling party’s overall victory and set the stage for the controversial Jacob Zuma rise to the presidency. ANC’s opposition wins key S. African province because of hostility from mixed-race votersCAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress neared its cherished two-thirds majority nationwide but lost power in the country’s richest province Friday because of hostility from mixed-race voters. Exhibit of author Alice Walker’s literary archive goes on display at Emory UniversityATLANTA — Even from a young age, author Alice Walker was keeping a record. Still Cajun after all these years: New Orleans Jazz Fest honors local roots as it turns 40NEW ORLEANS — Only about 350 people attended the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1970, and that number included gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and the other 100 or so local musicians who performed. Women’s college basketball gets plenty of A’s on report card for diversity in coaching hiresINDIANAPOLIS — Women’s college basketball is getting good marks in racial diversity for its coaching hires. Latino pastor group to illegal immigrants: Stand up, but don’t be counted, in censusNEWARK, N.J. — A nationwide group of Latino ministers has a message for illegal immigrants: Stand up, but refuse to be counted in the 2010 U.S. census. 45 years after Freedom Summer, Miss. quietly gets rid of laws meant to thwart civil rightsJACKSON, Miss. — While researching a case, attorney Ed Blackmon stumbled across leftovers of Mississippi’s segregationist past — laws enacted to discourage the fight for equal rights for blacks. DOJ interrogation memos approved waterboarding, but left unanswered: Does torture work?WASHINGTON — Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons. |
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