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
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This video is a piece on Turkey Creek, Mississippi that was done by the Daily Show on Comedy Central. What do you think?
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Posted Wednesday, January 26th 2011 at 2:46PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CNN.com--This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of AIDS. In June 1981, a rare pneumonia diagnosed in five Los Angeles gay men was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These were the first documen ...
Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 5:33PM
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Joan Rivers says she censored a joke out of her stand up routine in which she referred to First Lady Michelle Obama as "Blackie O" for fear of being labeled a racist.
Rivers revealed the controversial joke on Thursday morning's Howard Stern Show:
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Posted Saturday, January 22nd 2011 at 2:21PM
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Rev. Bernice King said Friday she will not assume the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group co-founded by her father more than 50 years ago.
King was elected in October 2009 to lead t ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:12PM
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SOUTH CAROLINA--Statistics presented at the Third AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities revealed that black women often have lower vitamin D levels than white women.
The authors of a study on the subject added that the partic ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:07PM
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Peace To All:
Whether or not you are a follower of the NOI or an independent thinking black man or woman you have to be disappointed at the present predicament that this society has planned for black people in general.
Politics like religion is ...
Posted Friday, January 21st 2011 at 3:03PM
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