The mining companies have compared the proposed legislation with what they say is the unjust Black Economic Empowerment Act (BEE) of South Africa, launched to redress the inequalities of apartheid.
Calling for the re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act is the new black on Wall Street.
The band was known to fight discrimination by demanding that a black act appear on the bill at each of their concerts.
In a two-part report for The Tavis Smiley Show, producer Roy Hurst explores the roots of blackface minstrelry, and how the legacy of the act still haunts some forms of black popular entertainment today.
Mr Mbeki has faced calls from business leaders to act over the black-outs, which at one stage stopped production at some of the country's biggest gold and platinum mines.
Moreover, the Voting Rights Act, originally intended to prevent the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, makes it difficult to marginalise minority voters.
As well as improving the NHS in Sandwell, the hospital would "also act as a significant catalyst for regeneration in the Black Country, " he said.
The National Black Police Association said last week that the decision by prosecutors not to act on the claims of assault and racist remarks against three officers highlighted the issue of racism and the criminal justice system.
They include setting targets for the recruitment, promotion and retention of black and Asian police officers, and the extension of the 1976 Race Relations Act to the police and all other public bodies.
The illustration on the cover showed a black man in a gleaming top hat, white gloves, mouth open in the act of singing.
It unveiled for a sinister, fluttering moment a ragged mass of clouds hanging low, the lurch of the long outlines of the ship, the black figures of men caught on the bridge, heads forward, as if petrified in the act of butting.
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After the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act, I worked to integrate USDA county offices and took the first group of black 4-H youth to compete in a state completion.
Black's majority opinion found that government authorities had the discretion to act as they saw necessary to protect security.
Petri said if private lenders refuse to lend money to black students on historically black campuses, that would be an act of racial discrimination under the Higher Education Act.
It would also cover, no doubt, dozens of incidents in which the fact that a victim is black or homosexual or Catholic is purely incidental to a random act of violence.
Because of what the music does formally, there is little chance that we will see a Top Ten black-metal act.
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