February is Black History month, a time when educators and students across the United States take time to learn about African American history. On the campus of University of Missouri, this time of year has been fraught with racial bigotry. In the ea ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:41PM
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OXFORD, OH – A new study says Miami University and The Ohio State University favor African American students over Caucasian students when it's a close call.
The study focused on race, grade point average and standardized testing results to come wi ...
Posted Tuesday, February 15th 2011 at 2:30PM
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Conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart's weekend in Washington at the Conservative Political Action Conference was interrupted when he was served with a lawsuit filed by the subject of one of his infamous videos, the New York Times report ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 5:36PM
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In his eloquent autobiographies, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass described the cruelty he experienced as an African-American slave in Maryland during the early 19th century. But Douglass' descriptions may have been missing some important detai ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:54PM
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Most people are rightly horrified about the case of a first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school who was recently charged with several counts of assault after being accused of choking and/or punching eight young students.
Adults ass ...
Posted Monday, February 14th 2011 at 4:48PM
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Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 5:37PM
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1. Your kids are becoming you...and you don't like them...but your grandchildren are perfect!
2. GOING OUT is good. COMING HOME is better!
3. When people say you look "Great"...They add "for your age!"
4. When you needed the discount you pai ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 4:14PM
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Born in the South, Edwin Leonard was one of many black men who wanted to fight for his freedom and his country during the Civil War.
Leonard enlisted with the Union Army as a corporal in the 54th Massachusetts, likely the most well-known regiment ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:38PM
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ARLINGTON,TX -- An African-American man who planned to use his bus to encourage children to resist bullies says he is being bullied by the National Football League.
Eric Williams is representing himself in a lawsuit filed Monday that names the NFL ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:35PM
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(CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.
The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; ...
Posted Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 2:17PM
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Redistricting and gerrymandering are once again the focus of high-stakes politics in Louisiana, and across the country. This is the once-a-decade process during which political incumbents selectively redraw the boundaries of their districts to inclu ...
Posted Saturday, February 12th 2011 at 3:52PM
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