August 2013
August 6th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Minority children, who will make up the majority future workforce, need quality early learning and preschool programs. This presents a great challenge for the nation because most minority children are born in poverty and do not have access to high quality early learning programs.
The overrepresentation of minority children among the poor is not new. What is new is that minority...
August 6th, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
If Thomas Jefferson believed what he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, how could he have owned slaves? It is one of the greatest paradoxes in American history.
Scholars have long puzzled over the apparent inconsistency in that the man who wrote "All men are created equal" could have actively participated in a situation where some people were held in bondage – clearly a sign that they were...
August 5th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Dr. Martin Luther King once described Sunday morning as the most segregated time in America with whites going to white churches and blacks and other minorities going to ethnic churches. But that maybe changing as more are Christians opting to join multi-ethnic mega churches.
Cyndi Hill, who is half Korean, and Jose Ferrell, who is African-American, are two people who have opted for the mega...
August 5th, 2013
Written by Emily Wagster P... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi civil-rights activists are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer in 2014. Some say race relations might've improved, but people must remain vigilant to protect voting rights.
"The struggle to make democracy work still continues," Frank Figgers, vice chairman of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Inc., said Friday at...
August 5th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (AP) – A Sikh who lost his father in a hate shooting teamed up with a former skinhead to work for peace. Six weeks after a white supremacist gunned down Pardeep Kaleka's father and five others at a Sikh temple in the U.S. exactly a year ago, Kaleka was skeptical when a former skinhead invited him to dinner.
But Kaleka accepted, and he's grateful he did. Since then, the...