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Boehner Makes Up for Appointing All Old White Men with Single Old White Female
(Atlantic) After Republicans filled every House leadership position with old white dudes, Speaker of the House John Boehner changed course on Friday afternoon by adding some diversity — emphasis on...
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Colin Powell Calls Out The GOP’s Racism Problem: There Is ‘A Dark Vein Of...
(ThinkProgress) On Sunday, during an appearance on Meet The Press, Colin Powell condemned the GOP’s “dark vein of intolerance” and the party’s repeated use of racial code words to oppose President...
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Eric Cantor On Immigration: Children Of The Undocumented Should Get Citizenship
(Reuters) – A top U.S. Republican lawmaker said on Sunday he would support granting citizenship to children who are undocumented in the country in a sign that conservatives who oppose immigration...
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Obama pushing to diversify federal judiciary amid GOP delays
(Washington Post) In Florida, President Obama has nominated the first openly gay black man to sit on a federal district court. In New York, he has nominated the first Asian American lesbian. And his...
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Tough racial issues face GOP in minority outreach
(CNN) – Republican K. Carl Smith is African-American and he knows that the GOP's racial reckoning won't come from 100-page reports from party headquarters with carefully worded prescriptions about...
View ArticleThe G.O.P.’s Diversity Deserts
(New York Times Op-Ed, Charles Blow) Just a week ago, the Republicans issued their much-ballyhooed “autopsy” on why they lost the presidential election last year and how they might remedy their...
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Latino Support For Obamacare Poses Problem For Republican Hispanic Outreach
(Huffington Post) Republicans have another problem with Latinos, unrelated to immigration. Polling data released in March by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that Latinos are among the biggest...
View ArticleGOP Tries to Get in With Asian-American Voters
(Hispanic Business) Republicans admit they have a problem with Hispanic voters. They have an even bigger problem with Asian Americans — a group that was a majority GOP voting bloc less than 20 years...
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North Carolina NAACP Protests GOP Initiatives
(The Root) — Seventeen people were arrested on Monday during a nonviolent "pray-in" at the North Carolina General Assembly, which was held by the NAACP to call attention to the state's...
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Hispanic leaders warn GOP not to block Thomas Perez as labor secretary
(McClatchy) Hispanic lawmakers and community leaders warned Republicans on Tuesday about the consequences of blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Thomas Perez to be labor secretary. The...
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