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GRITtv: Racial Profiling: It's Time to Face the Truth

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Our friends at the Applied Research Center and the Rights Working Group are organizing a "night of 1000 conversations" around racial profiling, and they sent us this video to ask for your support and involvement.

GRITtv: Media Panel: Deepening Healthcare Concerns and the Ongoing Saga of Henry Louis Gates' Arrest

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Recent polls have shown more and more Americans doubting Obama's stance on health care, though the majority is still generally supportive. With Republicans and conservative Democrats balking at reform while right wing pundits condemn his plans, will Obama go the way of Clinton when it comes to health care? Most agree the issue of health care is getting sufficient coverage and exposure in the mainstream media, but is it getting the right kind of coverage?

GRITtv: The F Word: Equal Protection is Better Than Beer and Dialogue

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The National Council of La Raza, a top Latino civil rights group, is taking a shot at RNC chair Michael Steele and several prominent GOP figures for skipping its ongoing annual conference while Democrats are basking in the contrast. Having nominated the first Latina to the Supreme Court and sending no end of speakers to the La Raza conference, they're in like Flynn with Latino voters, they hope. But things are not so simple. The day after the La Raza affair there was another gathering in NY, and Latinos came out in big numbers.

GRITtv: Henry Louis Gates' Arrest: A Teachable Moment?

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There's been an endless cycle of commentary on the Henry Louis Gates affair since the Harvard Professor was arrested in his home and President Obama made the off script remark that the Cambridge police had "acted stupidly." Both men are now saying it is time to move on and that what happened was a teachable moment. But what, if anything, have we learned?

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