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February 23rd, 2013
Written by Felicia Kitzmiller - Spartanburg Herald Journal in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 1 Comment
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - In 1964, Wofford College was the first private school in South Carolina to accept a black student.
The 1960s was a tumultuous time across the nation and in Spartanburg. Al Gray, a Spartanburg native, was the first black student accepted to Wofford. His first night on campus, he was jumped by white students. When they hit him, he hit back.
Wofford College recently...
February 23rd, 2013
Written by Nancy Lofholm - The Denver Post in Common Ties That Bind, Latest News with 0 Comments
DENVER (AP) - Citing a new focus on biblical passages that call for Christians to treat foreigners and strangers well, Colorado evangelicals are turning into a potent force in the push for immigration reform.
Focus on the Family and some of the 200-plus lesser-known evangelical groups and congregations in Colorado have become surprise lobbyers for controversial reforms that include allowing...
February 22nd, 2013
Written by Darlene Superville - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama argued Friday for keeping a key provision of federal voting rights law in place, saying it will become harder but not impossible to help people who believe their rights at the polls have been violated if the Supreme Court decides to strike down that part of the law.
The court has scheduled oral arguments for Wednesday on a challenge from Shelby County, Ala...
February 20th, 2013
Written by Nebi Qena - Associated Press in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) - It was a quick affair: the couple met in a restaurant and wed the next day. A Kosovo Serb man and an ethnic Albanian woman joined in marriage, unusual in war-torn Kosovo. Fifteen years later, they were an apparent target of a bombing in the ethnically split city of Mitrovica.
Slavoljub Masic, Nerxhivane Rrustolli, and their children weren't injured in last week's hand...
February 19th, 2013
Written by Ike Wilson - The News-Post of Frederick in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - Dr. Robert Slawson and his wife, Mavis, attended a lecture in 2004 about African-American physicians in the Civil War. That experience prompted the retired oncologist to write a book dedicated to black men and women who practiced medicine during the war.
Slawson, a volunteer at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, had just finished a research project on medical...
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