February 2013
February 5th, 2013
Written by Phillip Rawls -... in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped. Now, state officials are trying to exonerate them in a famous case from the segregated South that some consider the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.
Two Democratic and two Republican legislators unveiled proposals Monday for the legislative...
February 5th, 2013
Written by Emily Wagster P... in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Myrlie Evers-Williams says people praised her poise after her husband, Mississippi NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, was assassinated 50 years ago in the state. But she says she struggled with wanting revenge.
Evers-Williams, 79, said at a prayer luncheon last week in Jackson that her faith helped her find peace, and her daughter once reminded her that Medgar Evers had...
February 4th, 2013
Written by Elliot Spagat -... in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.
The prediction that Hispanics will equal the number of whites in...
February 4th, 2013
Written by Stacy A. Anders... in Cover Stories, Latest News with 3 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the midst of talking black history with Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou breaks out singing a hymn a cappella.
The acclaimed poet and author wants to show Keys, a New Yorker, what "lining out," call-and-response singing that is popular in black churches down South, sounds like.
That teaching moment is one of many during Angelou's third annual Black History...
February 4th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Presidential Inauguration speeches don’t typically contain policy statements, but President Obama broke with tradition on January 21 when he touched on a number of issues including, poverty.
“Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable,” said the President. “The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap...