June 2010
June 4th, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
Beginning in September 2010, USARiseUp will launch and host a ongoing conversation, the National Collegiate Dialogue on Race Relations. It is an unprecedented and historic undertaking.
The purpose of this major initiative is to foster a sustained conversation about race relations in America. Such a conversation is necessary to bring about an honest assessment of where we are, stimulate active...
June 4th, 2010
Written by Eun-Joo Park in All About Family with 0 Comments
As a young child in Korea, I learned that dogs said “mung mung,” cats said “yow yow” and roosters screeched “ki-kirikee” at the break of day. Then my family immigrated to the United States and I discovered that American animals spoke an entirely different vocabulary, inspired by the same animal sounds but interpreted differently.The same was true of the new folk songs and nursery rhymes I heard...
June 3rd, 2010
Written by Randi McCreary in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Words do not travel at the speed of light. They can be soft, gentle and curiously placed in the ears of listeners. The pen holds no color barrier and the microphone becomes a welcoming refuge for the culturally inclined. When it comes to those common ties, poetry is the proverbial glue that binds each of us despite our race, culture, or ethnicity.
I can recall the first time I read Nikki Giovanni...
June 2nd, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
“Holly, honey, come help me out.” That’s my mother, calling from the kitchen.I remember poking my head from my dad’s home office, where I was doing whatever homework 13-year-olds do on Sundays: “What?”In a rare departure from the Sunday routine, we were having dinner at home. Normally, we’d gather en masse at my grandmother’s for a loud, relative-laden, multi-course extravaganza. When I think...
June 1st, 2010
Written by Zimuzor Ugochukwu in National Collegiate Dialogue with 15 Comments
In 1960, it only took four. On February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, a walk to F. W. Woolworths store would give life to the sit-in movement throughout the United States. Four African-American freshman college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University made a decision that changed history: they sat in unison at a “whites only” lunch counter and refused to...