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September 6th, 2012
Written by Russell Roberts in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
As the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, Susan LaFlesche Picotte was a shining example to tribal members everywhere. She proved it was possible to lift oneself out of the morass of the reservation system and live a useful life. However, in proving that point, Picotte literally worked herself into an early grave.
Susan LaFlesche, born on June 17, 1865 in northeastern Nebraska...
September 5th, 2012
Written by Manny Otiko in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 1 Comment
As the price of college skyrockets, and the American economy struggles, the option of college is increasingly becoming a pipe dream for many ethnic minorities.
According to a recent Huffington Post story, "About 40 percent of students left school with debt averaging about $22,000. But students from families earning between $40,000 and $59,000 were saddled with $6,000 more on average than peers...
September 4th, 2012
Written by Rebecca Fortner in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
As the world evolves, determined parents create an atmosphere where providing their children with the best of everything is equivalent to sending them off to school with the coolest backpacks, greatest up to date electronics, anything to help them in their educational ventures. However, parents often neglect one of the most important aspects in their child’s backpack full of expensive goodies,...
August 31st, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Ethnicity vs Race, Latest News with 0 Comments
During the 2012 Republican Convention, diversity window dressing and collective amnesia about the systemic racial discrimination in this country was in full regalia.
Throughout the convention, a parade of new minority faces crossed the stage. There was Mia Love, a black, Mormon mayor of a small town in Utah who is currently running for Congress. Are we to believe that she is just one of many...
August 30th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
The 2012 Presidential Election will go down as one of the most blatantly negative and factually misleading campaigns in modern times. What makes this characterization particularly troubling is the pervasive proliferation of the ugliness and falsehood through the multi-media at our fingertips.
Today’s technology makes no distinction between lies and truth, both reach a busy, preoccupied, and...
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