April 2010
April 21st, 2010
Written by Holly Beretto in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
“I mean, how often do you witness a miracle?” one of my friends, an English as a Second Language teacher in New Jersey asked me when I mentioned I’d been asked to write a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.What, I pondered, was I supposed to say?Until USARiseUp mentioned the story to me, I hadn’t been sitting in the corner of my sofa, looking up occasionally from my book, my glass of...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Jane Mersky Leder in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Nothing could have prepared then high school juniors Tyjuan Morrow and Richie Gallant for the eye-opening experience of visiting each other’s school. Morrow, who is black and lived in the projects with his mother and two of six siblings, attended one of the lowest-performing public schools in St. Louis. Gallant, white and Jewish, lived in a comfortable suburb with his parents and younger brother...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Diane Nichols in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
It was not foreign to me. I had heard about it before. However, until I experienced Amish country first hand on a trip to Ohio, I never understood its simple beauties.In the heart of Ashland County, time stands still. The Amish live without electricity or telephones, ride in horse-drawn buggies and wear plain clothes. Despite the perimeter of peaceful greenery, surrounded by modern cities, and...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Lillian A. Jackson in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
What can be said of race relations among Americans in the new millennium? It is 144 years since the emancipation of the slaves, 55 years since Brown v. The Board of Education, and 45 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Today a black man is the president of the United States. Nevertheless, how far have we really come and how far do we have to go? RiseUp set out to learn how...
April 13th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in All About Family with 1 Comment
Shaved heads were in fashion when six members of the Colon family became bald within one week. But they didn’t go bald for fashion’s sake.Escolastico (Esco) Colon, his father, brother, uncle, and brother-in-law went under the razor after Esco’s wife, Iris, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and began losing her hair due to chemotherapy and radiation.“Iris was losing big clumps of hair from...