Jackson Clarion-Ledger: Film examines history of black Mormons
Elijah Abel, Jane Manning James and Green Flake hold a unique, but rather obscure place in Mormon history. All three were members of their church ...
Archive for April 4th, 2008
Yahoo! News: OBAMA PASSES MAJOR LEADERSHIP TEST WITH CANDOR AND GRACE
Last August, during an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Barack Obama was asked whether he'd lead the nation in a ...
Akron Beacon Journal: Career retreat this weekend
More than 200 women will be at a three-day conference this weekend at the Firestone Country Club. . . . . The ''Connections, Community and Career ...
Yahoo! News: African American trail in Louisiana
Louisiana tourism officials have unveiled the first 26 sites on an African American Heritage Trail running from New Orleans to northern Louisiana ...
Yahoo! News: Black teen STD rate needs our attention
Once again, a study has found a wide gap between blacks and whites, and yet again the news is not good for African-Americans.. . . The latest ...
Fort Myers News-Press: CAL THOMAS: Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to be honored, then followed
Certain events imprint the mind with images time cannot erase. People of one generation recall where they were when the Japanese bombed Pearl ...
FOX 26 Fresno (KMPH): The Valley Remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Leo Bradshaw grew up in the Deep South and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King.. . He still remembers the moment he heard his hero was ...
The Record: 8th-graders excel in new writing test Give us an "A&q
Give us an "A": New Jersey eighth-graders outscored students in all other states on a national writing test last year.. . Just three years after a ...
Memphis Commercial Appeal: A dream deferred Civil rights leaders hope to restart Poor People’s Campaign
Before his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was pushing forward with plans for the Poor People's Campaign, a shift in the civil ...
The Times Herald-Record: Trials & Tribulations: $1.45M settlement OK’d in fatal rundown
State Supreme Court Justice Elaine Slobod has approved the epilogue to the story of Angela Manouvelos, who was killed in the National Wholesale ...
Time: Affirmative Action for Boys
Back in olden days--in 1974, to be exact--Mr. T. Harding Jones of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton lamented how "coeducation has ruined the ...
NBC 4 San Antonio (WOAI): Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King
Dr. Martin Luther King was shot and killed on April 4th, 1968 - 40 years ago. . . Dr. King was in Memphis on April 4th in 1968 to help organize a ...
NBC 10 Knoxville (WBIR): Two armed robbers hit North Broadway restaurant
Knoxville Police are looking for two robbery suspects Friday night.. Two black males wearing ski masks and black hoodies entered the Burger King on ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Laurels and laments
The chasm in education is growing. On one side of this divide: white students who are marching steadily forward. On the other: black students, who ...
TPM Café: Impact of SD\’s Overturning Obama: The African American Vote
Robert Schlesinger has interesting projections of the impact of alienating African-Americans if SD's overturn an Obama delegate win. It's worth ...