May 2013
May 21st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
At a time when overall black unemployment remains nearly two times that of whites and federal PLUS loans for education are becoming more and more difficult to get, the overriding question of the day: What's a black student to do to get a college degree, to have any hope of escaping a life of poverty? Getting a college degree will be out of reach for many blacks.
For as long as they have existed...
May 20th, 2013
Written by Mitch Weiss - A... in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - In the spring of 1963, Dr. Reginald Hawkins, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown. He warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so peaceful.
Nearly two weeks later, civil rights and white...
May 17th, 2013
Written by Bruce Smith - A... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured, and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin.
Once one of about two dozen on slave row at Point of Pines Plantation, the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture...
May 16th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
In the wake of the May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education decision, school districts made strides to end racial segregation in public schools. But after meeting the clear goals of court-ordered desegregation, many schools slipped back into race and class segregation trends even with a growing diversity in student enrollment, according to several new reports from the Civil Rights Project at...
May 16th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in All About Family with 0 Comments
Unimaginable as her ordeal might be, Amanda Berry’s plight stands as even more of an anomaly than many may want to think.
A 2010 academic study finds that roughly 80 percent of the news coverage devoted to missing children focuses on victims who are not black, which raises anew in the face of the Cleveland-based tragedy primarily centering on a now 27-year-old local.
A wandering Charles Ramsey...