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February 6th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
My sister Linda, a spectacular teacher, learned early in her career about the dangers of spoonerisms. After her first embarrassing reference to the Mark Twain classic, she subsequently always called Huckleberry Finn by his full first name.
I’ve had embarrassing classroom moments of my own, many of them in my career as a corporate trainer. One of my first contracts was with the State of Michigan....
February 5th, 2013
Written by Meg Kinnard - Associated Press in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87.
Vann Dozier of Leevy's Funeral Home in Columbia said Washington-Williams died Sunday. A cause of death was not given.
Washington-Williams was the daughter of Thurmond and his family's black maid. The...
February 4th, 2013
Written by Elliot Spagat - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.
The prediction that Hispanics will equal the number of whites in...
February 4th, 2013
Written by Stacy A. Anderson - Associated Press in Cover Stories, Latest News with 3 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the midst of talking black history with Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou breaks out singing a hymn a cappella.
The acclaimed poet and author wants to show Keys, a New Yorker, what "lining out," call-and-response singing that is popular in black churches down South, sounds like.
That teaching moment is one of many during Angelou's third annual Black History...
February 4th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Presidential Inauguration speeches don’t typically contain policy statements, but President Obama broke with tradition on January 21 when he touched on a number of issues including, poverty.
“Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable,” said the President. “The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap...
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