August 2013
August 25th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – On Wednesday, August 28th, the nation's first black president, a living symbol of the racial progress Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about, will stand near the spot where King stood 50 years ago and say where he believes this nation should be headed.
Then, like King, President Barack Obama will step away from the hulking Lincoln Memorial, and return to where this nation is now....
August 25th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Marchers who gathered in the nation's capital vow to renew the fight for Civil Rights for those areas of equality yet to be attained as well as address the erosion of equal rights in other areas.
Tens of thousands of marchers kicked off the 50th anniversary commemorations of the March on Washington, honoring the civil rights progress made since Martin Luther King Jr. delivered...
August 23rd, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Phillis Wheatley was more than just an African-American slave who also had a gift for poetry. She was a symbol of the intelligence and dignity of blacks when it was popularly thought that they could never be the intellectual equal of whites.
She was likely born in Senegal about 1753. At the age of eight, her life was forever changed when she was kidnapped from her family by slave-traders and...
August 22nd, 2013
Written by Rita Cook in All About Family with 0 Comments
Keeping children of all skin colors safe while in the sun should be top priority during all seasons, but especially summer months, which can be very long in many geographical areas.
Brett Johnson, MD, Director of the Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program at Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Texas knows a little about the sun. After all, during the summer time and even in the cooler...
August 21st, 2013
Written by Phillip Elliott... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Black high school graduates are less ready to succeed in college or a career than whites or other minorities, according to the latest ACT annual report of test results.
Just a quarter of this year's high school graduates who took the ACT tests have the reading, math, English and science skills they need to succeed in college or a career, according to data the testing company...