June 2013
June 25th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Immigration Articles with 0 Comments
As Congress struggles with immigration reform, a new report finds that migration deaths in southern Arizona continue to rise despite the decrease in unauthorized border-wide crossings. Looking at more than 2,200 human remains of “unauthorized illegal immigration attempts to cross the borders” in southern Arizona since 1990, the report further details the fluctuations of the numbers over time as...
June 25th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
"The fight against hunger must have no color, no religion, no political affiliation,” said Director-General José Graziano da Silva of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization onthe same daythe House rejected a farm bill that would cut $2 billion annually from food stamps because the cuts weren't large enough for many Republicans.
Graziano da Silva, speaking on June 20, during the of FAO's 38th...
June 25th, 2013
Written by Carolyn Thompso... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Racism in education is a long-standing issue in America, but many believe that charter schools benefit black and Hispanic English language learners as well as students from poor families and other ethnic groups, more so than their peers from traditional public schools, a new study shows.
Overall, charter school students are faring better than they were four years ago, surpassing those in...
June 24th, 2013
Written by Jeff Martin - A... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - As the U.S. military's first black aviators, the Tuskegee Airmen faced a double challenge of flying in the dangerous skies during World War II, and fighting an internal war against the prejudice of their racial groups waged by allies both at home and overseas.
Now some of the airmen's members have now undertaken another mission: helping high school students rise above obstacles in...
June 24th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
It looks like two upstate New York men won't make it to this year's National Knights Party Labor Day weekend bash in Arkansas.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, a Ku Klux Klan member, and Eric J. Feight, 54, arraigned on June 19 in Albany, N.Y., for plotting to build a "mobile, remotely operated, radiation emitting device capable of killing targeted individuals silently with lethal doses of X-ray...