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January 22nd, 2013
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
Glenn Eric Singleton is founder and president of Pacific Educational Group, Inc. In...
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 20th, 2013
Written by Jesse Washington - AP National Writer in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
This sentence spoken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America's bedrock values, its language almost sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality.
Yet today, 50...
January 18th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 0 Comments
Many low-income kids arrive at school hungry everyday due to “food insecurity” and that means lower scores or even dropping out. But the good news is more low-income students and schools are participating in breakfast programs, according to the Food Research and Action Center’s (FRAC) latest School Breakfast Scorecard released January 15, 2013. Chief among the ways to ensure children have the...
January 18th, 2013
Written by Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Police in Athens are holding two Greek men as suspects in the fatal stabbing of a Pakistani immigrant worker near the city center on Thursday, and are investigating whether the attack was racially motivated.
A police statement said the 26-year-old Pakistani man was attacked on his bicycle by two men on a motorbike before dawn in the Petralona district of Athens.
The two...
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