Archive for April 6th, 2008

San Francisco Chronicle: How far black America has come

Forty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, we sometimes talk about race in America as if nothing had changed. The truth is that ...

HeraldNet: King’s dream: Progress made, still much to do

Forty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, we sometimes talk about race in America as if nothing had changed. The truth is that ...

Greenville News: Readers’ letters: April 7, 2008

Since Republicans evidently only follow the Fox "fake" News Channel, I think it is only fair to enlighten them on what they are missing.. . After ...

Mass High Tech: Fast facts: Advantage: Unions

Black workers who are members of a union earn about $2 more an hour, or 12 percent more on average, than non-union peers, according to a report ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Historical society ‘Tastes of the Town’

Take signature dishes from leading eateries in Ligonier and the surrounding area. . Add libations from a winery and microbrew. . Arrange tastefully ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Readers respond to ‘indoctrination’

I usually get about a dozen e-mails regarding a column. Last Monday's column, "Obama's indoctrination," broke all records, generating more than 700 ...

Savannah Morning News: Making up lost ground

Eighth-grader Robert Samuel can wear his wispy moustache like a pubescent badge of honor.. . Earlier this school year, it was the 15-year-old's ...

ABC Austin (KVUE): Police bulk presence during Texas Relays

East Austin Homicide. . Hungry For Justice Program. . South Austin Auto Shop Fire. . The Texas Relays brings out a party in Austin often referred ...

Boston Globe: A screening that would save lives

She is angry, but who can blame her? Her sister - "my beloved sister" - died of lung cancer, writes a reader named Barbara.. . Her sister was ...

Yahoo! News: One in 4 Teen Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease

More than 3 million teenaged girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease (STD), a new government study suggests.. . The most severely ...

Bangkok Post: A dream deferred?

Martin Luther King dreamed of a day when his children would be judged not by skin colour but by character. Black America has moved far since his ...

Affluent Blacks’ Exodus Transformed Cities

The exodus of middle-class black residents from cities has shifted the neighborhood profiles and social interactions in American cities. Harvard sociology and social policy professor William Julius Wilson talks about what became of the cities when affluent blacks left.

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Hollywood Reporter: Eyewitness to Murder — The King Assassination

6 and 9 p.m. Thursday, April 3 CNN In America, for every great historical tragedy, there is at least one conspiracy theory. I'm not sure when this ...

1968 Riots Sparked Rural County’s Suburbanization

Equal housing rights and turmoil in the inner-cities have led to black migration to the suburbs, and black residents of the nation's capital were a part of that trend. Prince George's County is one area that has transitioned from rural to suburban.

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Yahoo! News: Pennsylvania: Clinton 51% Obama 38%

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama 51% to 38%. Those numbers are little ...