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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THE NEW FACE OF GROUP BUYING, THE BLACK BIZ HOOKUP LAUNCHES TO PROMOTE DISCOUNTED OFFERINGS & SERVICES FOR BLACK OWNED & OPERATED BUSINESSES ACROSS THE U.S.
Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) -- Today the Black Biz Hookup launched as the first Group ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 5:51PM
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MSNBC.com--Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a nearby spring. Sounds like a James Bond movie, but these clandestine places actually exist in (or under) dozens of America ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:27PM
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At this day and age my question is Does Race Still Matter?
Oprah recently did a test based on Race: Here’s the Results
The Human Race Machine, created by artist Nancy Burson, is a unique tool that shows users how they will look as six differen ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:26PM
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John Dabiri of Pasadena, California, is one of the geniuses walking amonst us today. Like the great African Pioneers who came before him, he is blazing a trail across our scientific world at only 30 years old. He is the recipient of the 2010 McAr ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 4:20PM
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Anita --
I am thrilled to make sure you are the first to hear some very exciting news. Charlotte, North Carolina, will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012.
Charlotte is a city marked by its southern charm, warm hospitality, and ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 3:52PM
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Claudette Colvin (b, September 5, 1939) is a African American woman from Alabama. In 1955, at the age of 15, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist R ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:08PM
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From FinalCall.com
January 31, 2010
“There are people who want to maintain the system of racism / White supremacy.
They don't want the victims of that system to have clarity as to what's happening to them.” –Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Nov ...
Posted Tuesday, February 1st 2011 at 12:06PM
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Gro ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 4:43PM
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By Nadra Kareem Nittle
January 29, 2011
Imagine a world where everyone had brown skin. Tens of thousands of years ago, that was the case, say scientists at Penn State University. So, how did white people get here?
Evidently, when humans began ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 3:51PM
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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
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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
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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
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