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    Chapter 1: I Have a Dream, 50 Years Later

    Five decades after Martin Luther King Jr.โ€™s historic โ€œI Have a Dreamโ€ speech in Washington, D.C., racial equality remains an elusive goal. Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made โ€œa lotโ€ of progress in the past 50 years toward achieving Kingโ€™s vision of racial equality. At the same time about half […]

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    Kingโ€™s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities

    Five decades after Martin Luther Kingโ€™s historic โ€œI Have a Dreamโ€ speech in Washington, D.C., a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer than half (45%) of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress toward racial equality and about the same share (49%) say that โ€œa lot moreโ€ remains to be done.

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    Latinosโ€™ Views of Illegal Immigrationโ€™s Impact on Their Community Improve

    Report Hispanicsโ€™ views of the impact of unauthorized immigration on the U.S. Hispanic community have grown more positive since 2010, according to a new nationwide survey of 5,103 Hispanic adults by the Pew Research Center. Today, 45% of Hispanic adults say the impact of unauthorized immigration on Hispanics already living in the U.S. is positive, […]

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    Religious Hostilities Reach Six-Year High

    A third of the 198 countries studied had a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion in 2012. About three-in-ten countries had a high or very high level of government restrictions on religion, roughly the same as in 2011.

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    Tunisians Disaffected with Leaders as Conditions Worsen

    Overview In Tunisia, the euphoric Arab Spring has descended into a summer of discontent. Two years after launching the Arab Spring, setting in motion changes that have convulsed the Middle East and North Africa, worsening national conditions have soured Tunisiansโ€™ views of both their political leadership and many national institutions associated with the countryโ€™s democratic […]

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    Kingโ€™s โ€œI have a dreamโ€ speech, by the numbers

    Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech 50 years ago today on Washington D.C.’s National Mall and Memorial Parks has become one of the most famous, and quoted, pieces of oratory in U.S. history (though that wasn’t apparent to everyone at the time). But how well have the aspirations King so memorably expressed been realized? We ran […]

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    Modest Public Interest in Close of Zimmerman Trial

    Overview The final days of the trial of George Zimmerman, which concluded July 13 with a verdict of not guilty, attracted relatively modest public interest overall. In a weekend survey, 26% say they were following news about the trial very closely. This is lower than interest in the initial controversy over Trayvon Martinโ€™s shooting when […]

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    Mexican public favors military use, U.S. aid to fight drug cartels

    On Monday, the Mexican military captured Miguel Angel Treviรฑo Morales, leader of the Zetas, one of the major Mexican drug cartels. Treviรฑo Morales is wanted in Mexico and the United States for charges of drug trafficking, murder, torture, kidnapping and extortion, among other crimes. Mexican armed forces made the arrest early Monday morning after a […]

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    On Stonewall anniversary, a reminder of how much public opinion has changed

    As the Supreme Court issued a key legal victory to same-sex marriage supporters today with its ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, itโ€™s worth looking back to an event that sparked a new discussion of homosexual issues โ€“ the Stonewall riots that occurred in New York City this week in 1969.

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