October 2011
October 17th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 75 Comments
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was officially dedicated this past Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. In addition to the 30-foot memorial being erected near that of three U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln among them, the significance is far-reaching. As a caring ordinary citizen, King was motivated to fight for racial, social, economic, and educational equality....
October 17th, 2011
Written by Richard Lempert... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 7 Comments
067a.jpg?itok=-kxgdaHD "Professor Richard Lempert, University of Michigan")
University of MichiganThis 2009 Law & Society Association presidential address combines the personal and political to address issues relating to race relations in the United States. Combining narrative methods and quantitative data the article traces the roots of the author’s commitment to racial equality and evaluates the degree to which over the past 60 years anti-black prejudice has...
October 17th, 2011
Written by Alonzo Weston in Stereotypes & Labels with 4 Comments
There are plenty of e-mail items and jokes circulating through the Internet that remind us of our most common racial stereotypes. Not that many of us forget.Stereotypes are memes in which we consciously or subconsciously transfer our beliefs about others to others until they become popular assumptions. And the assumptions stick — no matter how many times we see evidence to the contrary.Thanks to...
October 13th, 2011
New Laws Back Up Educators Stance Against Bullying: Social Status Rather Than Race Is Primary Factor
Written by Rebecca Fortner in Latest News, Other with 0 Comments
Policy makers have made advances in education with the passing of bully laws. State to state, educational administrators use these laws to take a stand against situations long been neglected by the general public. Bullying as defined in general is any attempt to verbally or physically intimidate, hurt, or cause distress or fear in an individual on the part of another, or group of others.According...
October 13th, 2011
Written by Wendy Innes in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
The cuisine of Venezuela could be called a lesson in migration and conquest. The country’s culinary influences include Europe, Africa, and the native Indian population, such as Pasticho, the Venezuelan form of Lasagna.Like many other places in the world, Venezuelan cuisine is regional, with the western region consuming goat, rabbit, cheeses, plantains with local tribal and Columbian influences....