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 ...
Archive for April 7th, 2008
Yahoo! News: OBAMA CAN FORM ALLIANCE OF VOTERS WHO SHARE ECONOMIC PLIGHT
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one, with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians ...
Press of Atlantic City: Shame on black lawbreakers who hide behind race
Dear Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick:So it's a black thing? Not a sleaze thing, not a betrayal of the public trust thing, not a breaking the law ...
HeraldNet: Public health: More challenges to meet
By Dr. Gary Goldbaum. . I will bet you weren't thinking about public health when you woke up this morning. But guess what? Public health was there ...
Seattle Times: By race divided
A small percentage of the population is colorblind; a medical condition that prevents them from distinguishing between certain colors. The rest of ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Robert Dentler - dean helped design Boston desegregation plan
Robert Dentler, one of two court-appointed education experts who helped design and administer the groundbreaking desegregation plan that led to mob ...
Nashville Tennessean: Summer step camps
The National Step Show Association, in partnership with the Metro Public Health Department, Metro Parks & Recreation and the HBCU (Historically ...
Examiner: Despite Pennsylvania focus, Clinton faces a knockout in North Carolina
Largely overshadowed by Hillary Clinton's make-or-break bid to win Pennsylvania in two weeks, Barack Obama is quietly widening his lead in the next ...
Newsday: NCAA graduation rates for black non-athletes dismal
Odds are, your bracket for the NCAA men's final didn't match up Butler and Western Kentucky.. But that's the way it would go in an alternate ...
Yahoo! News: Quarter of U.S. teen girls have sex-related disease
More than one in four U.S. teen girls is infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, and the rate is highest among blacks, the U.S ...
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 ...
The Times Herald-Record: Leonard Pitts Jr.: The tattered flag of racial victimization flies again in Detroit
Dear Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick:. So it's a black thing? Not a sleaze thing, not a betrayal of the public trust thing, not a breaking the law ...
Yahoo! News: School is the surest path to achieving King's dream
Two things got my attention last week. One was the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The other was evidence of the worsening ...
Billboard Online: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was unquestionably the biggest pop star of the '80s, and certainly one of the most popular recording artists of all time. In his ...
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa’s face of education is changing
Iowa's schools have become significantly more diverse this decade, a trend education officials say should lead to changes in classrooms and homes ...