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Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Justice Program: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Resources
The Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Justice Program lists here some additional resources, including media coverage and
links to organizations and related publications
covering online policy issues and racial, ethnic, and religious
communities.
For alerts, media coverage, and publications related
to incidents of online bias, discrimination, or defamation on
the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, see the
Surfing While Black, Etc. (SWAT Team) page.
More general
information about online policy issues is available from the Issues
bar across the top of most pages on this site.
Media Coverage
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Study: Internet Use by Latinos Lower Than for Non-Latinos
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Fewer Latinos use the Internet compared to non-Latinos, reports a new UCLA study on the use of the Internet by Latinos in the United States; however, Latinos who use the Internet spend slightly more time online than non-Latino users, and Latinos are online at home more often than non-Latinos, AScribe News via Hispanic Business (July 31, 2003)
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Bush Opposes Plan for Minority Grants
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The Bush administration declared its opposition Tuesday to a bill pushed by Virginia lawmakers that would create a grant program for computer technology at historically black and other minority-serving colleges and universities, Daily Press (July 23, 2003)
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An Online Revolution? I Don't See It
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"We have the most advanced Internet campaign in the country. . . . We have 34,000 volunteers all over the country because of the Internet . . . [but] we have a disproportionate number of white, middle-class kids because the Internet does not reach enough people in the Latino and the African American communities", Washington Post (July 6, 2003)
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Making Strides in the Digital Divide
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According to a recent study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research, 74 percent of blacks and 65 percent of Hispanics have access to the Internet from at least one location, eMarketer (paid subscription) (March 13, 2003)
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Why Human Rights Requires Free Software
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Human rights is the global currency of modern politics; whenever the United States attacks a country, diplomatically or physically, it cites human rights claims; and by a not-so-surprising irony, the critics of the United States and its allies complain of human rights violations as well, O'Reilly Network (October 11, 2002)
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Organizations and Related Publications
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OPG Co-Hosts Bridging the Digital Divides Event
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Join us the week of August 25-29 as we discuss "Bridging the Digital
Divides, Equal Access to the Internet" on Techsoup's Digital Divide Forum, including topics such as
class-based disparity in available technology,
the role race, ethnicity, and religion play in the
digital divide, women and technology,
the impact of Internet blocking software on the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and
access to technology for people with disabilities, Online Policy Group (August 25, 2003)
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Race in Digital Space
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Although most discussions of the "digital divide" have tended to erase the numerous contributions of minority artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars, this conference celebrates those accomplishments, while situating them against the backdrop of the challenges we still must confront in order to insure equal access to information technologies, USC's Annenberg Center for Communication (October 10, 2002)
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DemocracyGroups
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A project to create an online directory of U.S. based electronic mail discussions and e-newsletters related to social change and democratic participation, democracygroups.org (July 20, 2002)
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Kabissa
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Kabissa is a non profit organization that seeks to use technology to strengthen organizations working to improve the lives of people in Africa, kabissa.org (July 1, 2002)
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