Engage: Duke study says racial makeup of juries affects trial outcomes
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With no blacks in the jury pool, blacks convicted 81% of the time, whites convicted 66% of the time - Colorlines
Presidential campaigns focus on Latino voters with organizers, websites, ads - The Washington Post
'The Bachelor' could face discrimination lawsuit - EW.com
'The Education of Auma Obama' documentary explores how family shapes identity - The Root
Studies: Poor, urban 'food desert' neighborhoods might have enough access to fruits, veggies - The New York Times
Engage: The late Manning Marable wins Pulitzer for Malcolm X biography
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Marable's 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' wins history Pulitzer - NewsOne
Florida Supreme Court to consider whether undocumented immigrant can join Florida Bar - South Florida Sun Sentinel
Opinions: Are gay rights still controversial? - The New York Times Room for Debate
Black male teens' perspectives: 'I don't think it's about a hoodie. I think it's about race' - Tampa Bay Times
California tribe seeks short-term river closure to protect from harassment during ceremony - Native News Network
Engage: Symbolism behind first black 'Mad Men' character
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Teyonah Parris on 'Mad Men' character: 'I realize a lot of responsibility comes with this role' - Los Angeles Times Show Tracker See also: Opinion: Old 'Mad Men' prejudices linger - Detroit Free Press
University of California San Diego to overhaul racial harassment policies - San Diego Union-Tribune
Programs try to halt homelessness among veterans - NPR
Opinion: Why is bilingual education in decline? - Huffington Post Latino Voices
First out lesbian ordained by Presbyterian Church - The Advocate
After years of education, children of U.S. immigrants returning to home countries - The New York Times
On Thanksgiving, millions at risk of hunger
New York (CNN) - Students gathered as the chef sliced tomatoes with a plastic knife in a Brooklyn public school cafeteria. Their eyes followed as she held up a slender green cylinder before the crowd of parents and kids in plastic aprons and hairnets.
"What's that?" kids shouted.
"It's a scallion. But don't eat it now," warned Leigh Armstrong, a culinary student and volunteer chef. "It doesn't taste like celery."
Armstrong was helping at Cooking Matters, a free, six-week class that teaches parents and kids how to shop for and prepare healthy, inexpensive meals. The program launched 20 years ago through the nonprofit Share our Strength, and it now serves more than 11,000 families across the country.
Most participants use or have used food stamps, free or reduced-price school lunches or food pantries to cover their nutritional needs, and almost all are still looking for ways to stretch a few ingredients into meals. The number of families that struggle to get enough food has increased in recent years.
Red Chair interview: Edward James Olmos
Ask Edward James Olmos who he is, and he will say that he's a storyteller.
An actor, director, activist, yes. But the story of how he became those things starts when he was 5 or 6 years old, back when he fell in love with baseball. He couldn't throw. He couldn't hit. He didn't even really understand what a baseball was. But it was the thing he most wanted to understand.
'The Mountaintop': MLK's last day, as seen on Broadway
"The Mountaintop," a Broadway play by Katori Hall, considers the last day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life - April 3,1968. But Hall had never set foot inside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where King was killed until she stepped in with CNN's Soledad O'Brien. The hotel room where King stayed was maintained as a shrine to the civil rights leader.
Hall's reaction: "It's too small to contain his dreams."
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