"Tuskegee-like" experiments on Aborignial children?

A representative of Australia’s Stolen Generations’ Alliance of Aborigines has told a Senate committee that some Aboriginal children were used for medical experimentation.  The projects included testing a leprosy medicine on children who had been taken from their parents to be brought up in the white community. The accusations that Aboriginal children were used in …

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Crushing Affirmative Action

With race looming as a key issue in the fall elections — perhaps a pivotal one, assuming that Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee — diehard defenders of the racial status quo are going to unprecedented lengths to prevent voters from having their say on government-sponsored racial preferences. Leftist activists are lining up to fight …

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Race and the Death Penalty

By ADAM LIPTAK   About 1,100 people have been executed in the United States in the last three decades. Harris County, Tex., which includes Houston, accounts for more than 100 of those executions. Indeed, Harris County has sent more people to the death chamber than any state but Texas itself. Yet Harris County’s capital justice …

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