July 2010
July 23rd, 2010
Written by Nadine Goff in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
Its iconic German Renaissance Revival-style City Hall building is now a National Landmark, and it’s still home to restaurants serving schnitzel and strudel. However, Milwaukee, a city strongly influenced by German immigrant culture, has experienced a cultural transformation. Although it retains its Old World Charm, Wisconsin’s largest city also emphasizes its vibrant ethnic and cultural diversity...
July 22nd, 2010
Written by Terez Howard in All About Family with 2 Comments
My 2-year-old daughter looked at my husband and said, “Daddy is tan.” She looked at me and said, “Mama, you’re brown.” She gazed at her milky skin and inquisitively asked, “Mama, what color am I?”I didn’t know what to tell her. She is a very fair-skinned, biracial child. In my household, we don’t make one shade superior to another. I don’t protest that I’m too dark, and my husband doesn’t...
July 21st, 2010
Written by John Perritano in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
March 2, 1955 was the wrong day to mess with Claudette Colvin.She and her classmates at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, AL, – one of two all-black high schools in the city – left class early that late winter's day so teachers could attend a faculty meeting. The weather was unusually muggy and summerlike – a good day to ride the bus home.Colvin, an energetic and bespectacled 15-...
July 16th, 2010
Written by Reniqua Allen in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Selling a small business to a larger business or a corporate conglomerate is a rarity, and takes hard work. However, with a lot of early planning, strategy, and ingenuity, one may be able make a sizeable profit from the sale of their company.John Osher, an entrepreneur who has created thousands of consumer products, published a list of mistakes he made as a business owner in Entrepreneur Magazine...
July 15th, 2010
Written by Zain Deane in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
Food isn’t what people typically picture when they think of the Caribbean. But in Puerto Rico, where a storied history and rich culture come together to bring a unique taste of the tropics, Caribbean cuisine — called comida criolla by the locals — is all that’s on the mind, and mouth.The evolution of Puerto Rican cuisine traces back through history, and celebrates its heritage with an...