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Sociological, biological and health research and findings about race and ethnicity; and personal reflections, anecdotes, and commentary on family values, traditions of different racial and ethnic groups to explore and communicate larger truths about the importance of family, the changing definition of family, across racial and ethnic groups.
February 5th, 2013
Written by Meg Kinnard - Associated Press in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87.
Vann Dozier of Leevy's Funeral Home in Columbia said Washington-Williams died Sunday. A cause of death was not given.
Washington-Williams was the daughter of Thurmond and his family's black maid. The...
January 4th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in All About Family, Latest News with 2 Comments
African-American children are nine times more likely and Hispanic children three times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison. Thanks go to the State of Idaho for assembling a national fact sheet, which gives us a snapshot of the plight of these children who are often the forgotten victims of crime. The average age of children with an incarcerated parent is eight years old;...
December 28th, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
American families are worried as they teeter on the edge of the fiscal cliff. While politicians pontificate and posture, moms, and dads throughout the country wonder how they will feed, clothe, and house their children in light of the huge tax increases looming on the horizon. Now is the perfect time for a holiday that focuses on family values and reminds us of the truly important aspects of home...
November 20th, 2012
Written by Michael Biesecker - AP Staff Writer in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - The father of Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. But as a young man from a poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia, he is said to have walked north to Atlanta barefoot so he didn't wear out his only pair of shoes.
His legacy is now being honored through a community center built to help other low-income people find a path...
November 13th, 2012
Written by Sarah Dilorenzo - Associated Press in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
PARIS (AP) — The radicalization of the French gunman who killed seven people on an eight-day shooting spree this spring began at home, his brother recounts in a new book and documentary, according to media reports.
Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish children, a rabbi, and three paratroopers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March before dying in a standoff with police. Merah claimed...
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