March 2013
March 25th, 2013
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
U.S. Senator, Carl Levin should be commended for presenting a Congressional Medal to the family of Darvis Beene, a western Michigan man who endured white racism as a black Marine during the 1940s.
Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, spoke to about 100 people in Grand Rapids on this past Saturday at an event honoring Darvis Beene, a minister, businessman, and father of 13 who died in 1993 at age...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Phillip Rawls -... in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
Alabama publisher, H. Brandt Ayers, in his memoir confronts Southern History head on. He addresses both the history of the region and his personal journey in his recently published memoir.
For people who think they have read plenty about the South's history over the past 70 years, Anniston Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers offers a fresh take, with his personal stories chronicling not only change...
March 25th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
With the nomination of Thomas Perez (the son of Dominican immigrants) as Labor Secretary on March 18, President Obama called on him to continue Administration efforts to help returning veterans find jobs. This comes on the heels of the President’s State of the Union pledge that 34,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will return home by next spring, and the end of the war by late 2014, which means the...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 31 Comments
Editor’s Note: A federal district judge began hearing a class-action challenge to NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy which yielded more stops of young black males in 2011 than their total black population in the city. The lawyers are arguing that the policy unfairly targets minorities.
NEW YORK (AP) - Devin Almonor, the teenage son of a former police officer, said he was thrown against an unmarked car...
March 25th, 2013
Written by Cristina Silva ... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - A proposed overhaul of Arizona's early voting laws has been blasted by Latino youth who say the Republican-backed effort would suppress minority turnout just as more Hispanics are registering to vote.
Students on spring break hosted a rally at the Arizona Legislature on Thursday in opposition to two measures that would limit who gets to vote early and how mail ballots are returned...