AN ETHIOPIAN woman who branded black women 'the most desperate women on the planet' has had to issue an apology after receiving a number of threats following her offensive Youtube video
The unnamed woman said that she felt it necessary to i ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:28PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December 1, 1955 in ...
Posted Friday, February 4th 2011 at 5:20PM
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By Holly Yettick
February 1, 2011
An offhand comment by an education professor at a diverse, urban university got me thinking about minority teacher recruitment. As he strolled past the department of criminal justice and criminology, this profess ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 1:14PM
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From The Huffington Post
February 2, 2011
The photos of Mubarak's thugs riding in on camels to attack the peaceful protesters with whips is getting worldwide attention. As CNN notes:
"All at once, about 50 or 60 people carrying clubs and ridin ...
Posted Thursday, February 3rd 2011 at 11:58AM
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NEW YORK--The residents board of the famous Dakota building in New York are racist and are unfairly discriminating against tenants they disapprove of, according to a lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Roberta Flack and Antonio Banderas have both ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:29PM
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Just 10 years ago, the name W.E.B. Du Bois did not ring many bells in the area. Despite being a Harvard graduate and leading philosopher on education and equality of the races, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’ legacy was largely ignored, mostly beca ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 2:02PM
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Newsweek.com--Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama's worst nightmare at election time next year.
Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable ...
Posted Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 1:57PM
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