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May 2nd, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Right there, along a two-block stretch in the heart of one of the country’s most storied metropolises, lies a history of pride, struggle, and perseverance that is symbolic of an entire nation.
In its infancy and at first glance, Detroit’s Birchwood Street didn’t resonate much differently than any other in the once typically race and income mixed neighborhood born of the early 1940s: whites lived...
May 1st, 2013
Written by Todd Pitman - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
Sectarian Violence Explodes Against Muslims In Myanmar
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) — They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris.
One day after hundreds of Buddhists armed with bricks stormed a clutch of Muslim villages in the closest explosion of sectarian violence yet to Myanmar's...
May 1st, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Alvin Turner met Chad Tall late last month in pursuit of a cause that now spans the course of both their lifetimes.
Turner was there back in 1968, when Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to demonstrate in support of striking sanitation workers like him merely seeking a livable wage. This time, the 78-year-old rebel took his defiant stance in New York’s Time Square, side-by-side, the 20-year-...
April 30th, 2013
Written by Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Mayor Bloomberg Fiercely Defends Stop And Frisk Practice
NEW YORK (AP) - In a pugnacious defense of what he called a police force bombarded by politics, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out Tuesday at critics of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk practice and surveillance programs.
"The NYPD is under attack," the mayor said in a speech that lauded the department for lower crime rates,...
April 29th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 2 Comments
Urban Prep Educates Its Students Straight Into CollegeBy Glenn MinnisA Chicago public high school is not only beating the odds in terms of educating all its students, it’s giving concerned observers yet another layer to ponder in addressing the city’s ongoing gang and violence problem.
Nestled in the heart of Englewood, one of the city’s most notorious and crime-ridden neighborhoods, for the...
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