DETROIT — John Hardy went to Mississippi to help give blacks the knowledge and courage to register to vote in a state where a black man's decision to do so could cost him his home, his job and/or his life.
It was 50 years ago — the summer of 1961. ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:45PM
(more)
January 30, 2011, is the fifth anniversary of Coretta Scott King’s death. Though well known as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a role she cherished, she was much more than just a wife and widow. In her honor, we present 20 facts you may ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:02PM
(more)
NEWSWEEK.com--As thousands more Egyptian citizens take to the streets in anti-government protests, the country is in danger of witnessing a bloodbath – at the behest of Washington.
Defying a ban on public demonstrations by the government of Presid ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 2:54PM
(more)
INDIANAPOLIS--Shai Warfield-Cross’s rendition of the National Anthem can be seen here. The 16-year-old student has been performing at games for over a year.
But she never received a complaint until she performed at Martinsville, a predominant ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 4:36PM
(more)
MICHIGAN--African Americans report physician visits are stressful and uninformative. A majority of African American men questioned say physicians don't give enough information on how to make changes in behavior and lifestyle, found in a new Universit ...
Posted Saturday, January 29th 2011 at 4:24PM
(more)
It’s now a done deal, as 10-year-old Willow Smith will officially star in the remake of the popular musical “Annie.” Rapper Jay-Z, who famously sampled “Annie” on the track “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” in 1998, will co-produce the film, along w ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 1:25PM
(more)
PENNSYLVANIA--A high school has defended its decision to segregate students by race and gender.
The scheme, at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further brea ...
Posted Thursday, January 27th 2011 at 10:59AM
(more)
CHICAGO--A 40-year-old Chicago man, who works as a motivational speaker for the anti-violence group We Stop the Killings, is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 8 after he was charged with hitting a woman in his car, police said.
Warren Jackson was ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 5:49PM
(more)
Someone that I consider to be highly knowledgeable sent this to me to be shared by many.
Subject: Foreign Trade Zones
This is unbelievable at first, but you will soon realize that there are several motives for the global communists to physica ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 5:19PM
(more)
GREENFIELD, Ind.- Imagine walking into a school lobby and finding a poster with a Ku Klux Klan member and a burning cross.
A mom posted the picture on Facebook. The school is Greenfield Central High School. The picture of the poster on Facebook ca ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 2:53PM
(more)
This video is a piece on Turkey Creek, Mississippi that was done by the Daily Show on Comedy Central. What do you think?
...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 2:46PM
(more)
AKRON--An Ohio mother is in jail after being convicted of tampering with records to enroll her children in a better school district.
Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, of Akron, illegally registered her two daughters at her father's address in suburban Co ...
Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 2:40PM
(more)
From Newsweek.com
January 24, 2011
The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, wh ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:18PM
(more)
NEW ORLEANS-- A child-support hearing officer has deleted his Facebook page after posting that a father of 23 children has "too much time on his hands."
A representative for William Dunckelman, the hearing officer, told WDSU Channel 6 News that he ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:14PM
(more)
BATON ROUGE--Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered a study of the feasibility of merging two neighboring New Orleans universities that have both struggled to fill classrooms and graduate students. A combined institution might ...
Posted Tuesday, January 25th 2011 at 3:06PM
(more)
A BIRMINGHAM primary school teacher has been allowed to continue in his profession, despite sending a string of “racist” emails to former colleagues.
Ilyas Uddin sent “offensive, bullying, racist and demeaning” messages after accessing the email a ...
Posted Monday, January 24th 2011 at 3:43PM
(more)
WASHINGTON--When Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley in 1901, he was subdued and held by an African American dishwasher named James Benjamin Parker, who acted faster and more decisively than the Secret Service. McKinley died eight d ...
Posted Monday, January 24th 2011 at 2:35PM
(more)
LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of students were kept in classrooms without food, water or access to restrooms longer than necessary, the Los Angeles school district's police chief acknowledged Thursday, as officials coped with complaints from parents frust ...
Posted Sunday, January 23rd 2011 at 2:28PM
(more)
