Bring That Week Back: Oct. 5

NYPD caught red-handed, MJ trial, plus more top stories.

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Does This Suit Make Me Look White? - At the beginning of last week, a Tufts University, Stanford and the University of California, Irvine study showed that race perception is not only skin deep, it can also be as shallow as the clothes on your back. When shown pictures of a racially ambiguous, computerized face in different hues, the researchers found that people were more likely to indicate that the face was Black when the figure was dressed in a janitor's uniform than when dressed in a suit.(Photo: Tufts.edu)

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Wiretap Recordings Catch NYPD Using Racial Slurs - Officers were heard making racist remarks on wiretaps used in a ticket-fixing investigation, according to recent reports at the beginning of last week. The investigation started in the Bronx, New York, as a probe into a cop suspected of having drug ties, however according to prosecutors, the investigation quickly took a turn as numerous officers were caught on tape discussing fixing tickets.(Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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California Prisoners Resume Hunger Strike - Prisoners resumed a July hunger strike that lasted three weeks and included 6,600 inmates in at least 13 prisons last week. The original July strike came to an end when officials told prisoners that they would comply with some of their demands. However, the prisoners say not enough has been done and called for the hunger strike to resume.(Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images)

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Worst: Conrad Murray Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter - Finally, justice for the Jackson family. Two years after losing their beloved son and brother Michael Jackson, the doctor accused of administering him the drugs that killed him was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter.  (Photo: Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images)

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Photo of Dead Michael Jackson Shown at Trial - Jurors saw a photo of Jackson's lifeless body on a hospital gurney after he died from an overdose of a powerful anesthetic on Tuesday during the criminal trial against Jackson's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death.(Photo: Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images)

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Significant Pay Gap for Teachers in Minority Schools - On Tuesday, a released Department of Education report showed that in districts around the country, teachers at schools with more Latino and African-American enrollment are paid $2,500 less on average than teachers in the district as a whole.(Photo: REUTERS/Adam Hunger)

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Jesse Jackson Seeks a White House Commission on Poverty  - Recently expressed on his website on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Jackson said that only the president has the platform to ignite a debate about poverty and that Congress has the "moral burden" to support him and decrease the millions of Americans who are currently in desperate need of help.(Photo: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Education Civil Rights Complaints at an All-Time High - The U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating a record number of complaints, announced on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Under President Bush’s eight-year administration, the DOE’s office for civil rights launched 22 compliance reviews, yet under President Obama’s scant 33 months in office so far, the DOE has already launched a record 30 compliance reviews.(Photo: Larry Downing/Reuters)

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Father of White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett Dies - Dr. James E. Bowman, father of White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and renowned pathologist, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 88 years old from renal cancer.(Photo: ABC7Chicago.com)

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Black Woman Says Braids Cost Her a Job - According to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Sept. 28, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing Alliant Techsystems Inc., a Minneapolis company, for racial discrimination on behalf of Tyeastia Green, a Black woman who claims she was passed over for a position because of her braids.(Photo: Xinhua/Landov)

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Civil Rights Education Disappearing in Schools - Thirty-five states out of 50 received an “F” by the Southern Poverty Law Center when their curriculum surrounding coverage of the civil rights movement was assessed, as reported on Thursday, Sept. 29.(Photo: Express-Times/Landov)

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Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South - In the 2010 Census analysis released on Sept. 29, a full 55 percent of Blacks identified as living in Southern states, with 18 percent living in the Midwest, 17 percent in the Northeast and 10 percent in the West.(Photo: US Census Bureau)

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Al Sharpton to Lead March for Jobs - As announced on Friday, Sept. 30, the civil rights leader will head a rally for employment and justice on Oct. 15, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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James Anderson’s Alleged Murderer Pleads Not Guilty in Hate Crime - Nineteen-year-old Deryl Dedmon, the white Mississippi teen accused of beating and driving over an African-American man, pleaded "not guilty" in his arraignment on Friday. Dedmon is charged with capital murder and a hate crime in the death of James Craig Anderson.(Photo: AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Joe Ellis)

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Police Arrest at Least 700 Wall Street Protesters - All eyes were on the group Occupy Wall Street as they fought against corporate greed, among other issues, over the past weekend. The protesters have been camped out in Zuccotti Park, a private plaza in New York City’s financial district, for three weeks, staging various marches. On Saturday they took their fight to the Brooklyn Bridge, where at least 700 protesters were arrested.(Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Amanda Knox Is Freed - An Italian appeals court overturned the conviction of American student Amanda Knox, who was imprisoned for murdering her roommate in 2007 on Monday. She was ordered to be immediately released from prison.(Photos: Oli Scarff/Getty Images; Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

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OJ Simpson - When this Hall of Fame football player stood trial for murdering his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, America had a new pastime: the spectator trial. People watched riveted day after day as the evidence grew more gruesome, the conspiracy deepened and the defense emerged victorious. Though Simpson was acquitted of the double homicide in 1995, his life spiraled downward after the trial. Now, he is serving a life sentence for armed robbery and assault. How's that for poetic justice. (Photo: REUTERS/Myung J. Chun/Pool)

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On This Date, O.J. Simpson Was Found Not Guilty - Monday, Oct. 3, marked the 16th anniversary of the former football star and actor’s 1995 acquittal. Simpson stood accused of the slashing murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in a posh Los Angeles neighborhood in June 1994.(Photo: REUTERS/Myung J. Chun/Pool)