February 2010
February 11th, 2010
Written by Jessica Rodriguez in Education, the Great Equalizer with 0 Comments
Luis Walter Alvarez liked to ask tough questions. As an experimental scientist, Dr. Alvarez used his innate curiosity to answer some of science’s most fundamental queries and change the way people understood the world.
Alvarez’s interest in science was a family legacy. Alvarez, born June 13, 1911, in San Francisco to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, a second-generation Cuban American physician and...
February 10th, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Cultural Uniqueness with 0 Comments
In spite of Shakespeare’s impertinent question, “What’s in a name?” names do matter.
Take Hispanic and Latino, for example. Do we really understand these names? Do we understand what it means when we call someone Hispanic or Latino?
The term Hispanic first appeared as a descriptor on the 1980 census. Prior to that, the bureau had used terms such as “persons of Spanish surname” and “persons of...
February 9th, 2010
Written by James Patrick A... in Race & Politics with 0 Comments
As the vultures circle the dead and dying, they might as well be carrion in the wilderness with no chance of remembrance among the living. As news headlines fill the mind with visions of hell... 150,000 lay dead.
The city of Port au Prince might as well be half a universe away. The country of Haiti lies ravaged by a new culprit, a 7.0 earthquake. What crime could these people have committed to...
February 8th, 2010
Written by Rozina Kidari in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Ever since I was about 12-years-old, I had this dream about "discovering my ethnic heritage." Distant but recurring images of a far away land danced around over and over again in my mind laced with beautiful prayers in a foreign tongue, the smell of potent spices, and a canvas of a million colors of dress and ancient scenery.
Growing up with my single American mother in Arizona, I always felt...
February 4th, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
February is Black History month, and it presents an educational opportunity that can aid us in closing the great racial divide between blacks and whites.
Designating February as Black History month is the nation’s attempt to correct its lack of acknowledgment and treatment of African-Americans in the normal annals of America’s history. While it is a good remedial effort, the month-long...