Common Ties That Bind
Exploring common values, living conditions, arts & cultural traditions and practices that cross racial, ethnic, generational, religious, and geographic boundaries; and destinations that offer opportunities to explore and enjoy the diversity and commonalities of the world’s peoples, places, and cultures.
February 5th, 2013
Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Myrlie Evers-Williams says people praised her poise after her husband, Mississippi NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, was assassinated 50 years ago in the state. But she says she struggled with wanting revenge.
Evers-Williams, 79, said at a prayer luncheon last week in Jackson that her faith helped her find peace, and her daughter once reminded her that Medgar Evers had...
January 30th, 2013
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) - Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Tuesday urged leaders in the black community to get more involved in the national debate on guns.
Belafonte told The Associated Press that the current discussion arising out of the Connecticut school massacre in December often ignores decades of urban gun violence. He said it's important that African-...
January 22nd, 2013
Written by Mesfin Fekadu - AP Music Writer in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - John Legend believes hip-hop played its part in helping Barack Obama become president, and he's proud at how the genre has matured.
"I think hip-hop had a role in making sure we elected a black president in America because we made it so that black people were in people's homes ... through our music and through our culture," the R&B crooner said Sunday night at the Hip-Hop...
January 21st, 2013
Written by Cathy Spaulding - Muskogee Phoenix in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Visitors to the Cherokee Immersion Charter School are told not to speak English in the classrooms.
Notices throughout the school say "You are entering an endangered language habitat, the only existing habitat where children are being taught Cherokee."
Cherokee is spoken, heard, written, and read in each classroom of this school which goes from pre-kindergarten through...
January 2nd, 2013
Written by Tim Reynolds -AP Sports Writer in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
Diversity is the theme of this season's U.S. women's bobsled roster.
The nine-person team includes an Olympic sprinting gold medalist, an elite hurdler with more than 300,000 Twitter followers four other athletes with extensive track and field backgrounds, a personal trainer, a volleyball player, and a softball shortstop. They come from California to New Jersey, to Georgia, to Illinois.
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