November 2013
November 2nd, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Discrimination Cases with 0 Comments
A black couple is suing Macy's for $2 million for alleged racial profiling at its department store in the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island
Richard Campbell and Samantha Bynoe, of Brooklyn, say they were leaving the store after buying items with a gift card when they were stopped outside by two males, who turned out to be Macy's employees.
Court documents say the two claim they were "wrongfully...
November 2nd, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
The University of Georgia has launched a $10,000 program billed as a way to attract more black males to the student body.
Currently, black males are 3 percent of undergraduates at the Athens campus. There are nearly twice as many black females enrolled. But both figures are dwarfed by the statewide African-American population, which accounts for almost a third of Georgia residents.
UGA leaders...
November 1st, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
The current motion picture in theaters entitled 12 Years A Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northrup, a free man who was kidnapped into slavery, offers a harsh but accurate look at slavery as it existed in the United States in the first part of the 19th century.
The sad fact, as the movie portrays, is that African-Americans could never truly relax and feel free, for they could be...