June 2013
June 12th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
In 1789, there appeared a remarkable book entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. The book details the harrowing and heart-breaking account of how a young African boy, kidnapped from his home, and forced into slavery became one of several racial discrimination cases of the era. Fortunately, the story has a happy-ending. Equiano purchased...
June 12th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
On this date, 50 years ago, was the assassination of one of the most important figures of the 1960s Civil Rights movement – but he is someone often obscured by other people from that era. Today, we remember Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers.
It was June 12, 1963, and Medgar Evers was just 37-years-old when someone shot him in the back and killed him in front of his Mississippi home. The first...
June 11th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Ending the “War on Drugs” is the goal of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, which is organizing a “Day of Direct Action” on June 17 outside the White House to pressure President Obama to address the devastation the “war” inflicts on black urban communities.
President Richard M. Nixon designed the War on Drugs to target drug imports and street level demand for drugs on June 17, 1971....
June 11th, 2013
Written by Phillip Rawls -... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – It has been fifty years since Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace stood in a doorway and tried to stop two black students from integrating the University of Alabama, but that infamous stand follows his daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, to this day.
That single episode in the American civil rights movement - his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" - attached an asterisk to...
June 11th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Taken together on paper, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders appear to be a high-achieving bunch with few of the challenges faced by other racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. when it comes to education.
Break these populations down into their many ethnic groups, however, and stark disparities emerge.
For example, between 2006 and 2010, about three-quarters of Taiwanese-...