August 2013
August 13th, 2013
Written by Bob Christie - ... in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - Trying to break the stalemate that has blocked immigration reform legislation in Congress, Senator John McCain is now recruiting business leaders to support immigration reform, his reason being that it will improve the state's economy.
McCain said Monday that giving the 11 million people in the country without legal status a path to citizenship will create jobs and end the 'de...
August 13th, 2013
Written by Paul Elias in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke on Monday about the "assault on voting rights" that a recent Supreme Court decision has spurred.
She spent most of her 45-minute talk to about 1,000 members of the American Bar Association assailing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a significant part of the Voting Rights...
August 13th, 2013
Written by Tom Foreman Jr. in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) - With little fanfare or publicity, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed sweeping changes for the state's elections into law on Monday. This legislation, signed in the wake of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling, requires government-issued photo IDs and shortens early voting. Civil rights groups are already threatening legal action to stop the laws....
August 12th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
A National Communication Association study finds that black students attending predominantly white universities struggle mightily with the balancing act of maintaining their own identity while integrating into that of the prevailing, far more accepted, culture.
The "Understanding the African-American Student Experience in Higher Education through a Relational Dialectics Perspective," study was...
August 12th, 2013
Written by Colleen Long - ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil right of tens of thousands of New Yorkers, mainly blacks and other minorities, with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy. There is evidence that the stops were conducted in a racially discriminating manner, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stinging rebuke...