June 2013
June 11th, 2013
Written by James Patrick A... in Race Relations with 0 Comments
I was introduced to the world of reading at the ripe old age of three. I used to sit on my mother's lap and listen to her read to me. It unlocked a world that was foreign. As I listened, I would gather the words like so many gulps of air. I became increasingly amazed that such a fascinating world existed. Reading, opening a child's imagination without racial prejudices.
I listened to mother with...
June 11th, 2013
Written by Stacy Nguyen in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
On May 16, 1967, during Vesak — the holiday celebrating of the birth of Buddha — Nhat Chi Mai, a Vietnamese religious disciple, publicly burned herself to death outside the Tu Nghiem Temple in Saigon to protest the ongoing Vietnam War.
The reverend Quang Duc, a 73 year old buddhist monk, is soaked in petrol before setting fire to himself and burning to death infront of thousands of onlookers at a...
June 11th, 2013
Written by Sticky Wicket in Race Relations with 0 Comments
Dear Sticky Wicket,
I’m annoyed when I see young black men with their pants down around their knees. Why do they have to wear their pants so baggy?
~Just Curious in Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Just Curious in Kansas City,
This particular “fashion” trend emerged in the early 1990s as a part of hip-hop culture that glorified the tough guy bravado of prison-bound “gangstas.” In many U.S. prisons, inmates...
June 10th, 2013
Written by Gosia Wozniacka... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Many Latinos find themselves stuck in poverty, reaching a tipping point in the nation's breadbasket.
On a warm spring day, farmworker Cristina Melendez was bedridden and unable to make her way back into the asparagus fields of central California for the kind of backbreaking work she's done since childhood.
The 36-year-old mother of seven was desperate. Her bank account had been at zero for months...
June 10th, 2013
Written by Jay Reeves - As... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - It feels like Birmingham finally is emerging from the shadows cast by the ugly racial violence of 1963.
Long haunted by black-and-white newsreel footage of the fire hoses and police dogs city leaders turned on blacks demonstrating for civil rights, the city has a new vibe that's generating buzz all its own 50 years later.
Birmingham's culinary scene is a jewel, with...