Nagin wants minorities key to recovery
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New Orleans' mayor signed an order Monday requiring that large businesses use as many local and minority-owned firms as possible when they seek millions of dollars in tax incentives and grants for Hurricane Katrina recovery.
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Colleges made minor progress last year leveling the hiring field for minority football coaches, but it may require a federal discrimination suit to widely improve access to ``the most segregated position in all of college sport," members of the Black Coaches Association said yesterday in releasing their annual hiring report card.
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Council housing report set to recommend ways to create more mixed communities to tackle deprivation.
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Â· Brown says burden must be shared out better  Â· US secretary of state's concern at threat in south
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The leaders of 30 civil rights organizations yesterday called on the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to closely examine the civil rights record of the Bush administration&#39;s
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Congress and the White House need to work together to get the U.S. economy back on track, a leading Senate Democrat said Saturday.
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Indigenous to the region, the Inuit want a 'meaningful voice' in the territory dispute.
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The United States needs more black,  Hispanic and American Indian doctors and nurses if minorities  have any hope of catching up to whites in terms of the quality  and accessibility of health care, a special commission said on  Monday.
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DETROIT -- Julian Bond wants people to understand that when the NAACP symbolically buries the N-word on Monday, the effort will be led by the younger members of the venerable civil rights organization.
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A glaring lack of racial and cultural diversity among teachers is hurting the chances of success for minority students, a coalition of school groups contends.
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By Chris Echegaray, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Sep. 14--TAMPA -- America is making little progress putting computers and  Internet access into the homes of minorities at the same rate as Anglos.
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OTTAWA (CP) - This week's gathering of federal Liberals will allow Paul Martin to hone his skills for the consensus-building exercise that is minority government.
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Mayor Ray Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death and a man was fatally stabbed in argument over beer.
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Just a year after he won a second term, speculation is swirling that Mayor Ray Nagin is looking for another job &#151; perhaps governor or congressman.
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In brief Mopping up the minorities
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Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city&#039;s long recovery from Hurricane Katrina &amp;#151; one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history.
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Ray Nagin narrowly won a second   term as mayor of New Orleans on Saturday with support from both   black and white voters and immediately began mending fences   with the federal and state governments to hasten the devastated   city's recovery.