May 2013
May 30th, 2013
Written by Eun-Joo Park in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
When my family emigrated from South Korea to rural Wisconsin, I didn’t understand why kids at school kept asking me what kind of food they ate in China. How should I know? I had never been to China. I had been to Japan once, on vacation with my parents, but the only food I remembered from that trip was the spectacular cart of whipped-cream-covered cakes wheeled in every day by hotel room service...
May 29th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Sports’ is the ticket to a college education for many black students. But that relationship between the “sport culture” and academics often leads to lowered academic performance and a failure to complete a degree, according to research from Kansas State University.
"Some scholars characterize the black student athletic experience as being very unique," said Albert Bimper Jr., assistant professor...
May 28th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, once again, finds himself at the center of controversy after Jewish leaders and black elected officials alike expressed trepidations about a recent speech he made before an overflowing Detroit congregation.
Jewish leaders immediately blasted Farrakahn’s remarks, which included such references as “Satanic Jews” and the “synagogue of Satan” as anti-...
May 28th, 2013
Written by Jacques Billeau... in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's critics who say...
May 28th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
Emory University will soon serve as the historic home of the life and times of cultural icon, Ophelia DeVore, every bit the female equivalent of noted Renaissance man Paul Robeson.
In terms of serving as both a source of elegant inspiration and dogged determination, DeVore, more or less, owned the 20th century. Her career spanned some six decades, ranging from the worlds of modeling to business...