In The End of Diversity as We Know It, author Martin Davidson asks three questions to help people and corporations move beyond the differences that can divide us. The questions involve determining how our perceptions of differences affect our behavior; learning about the labeled differences; and finding ways to put the differences to good use.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Black students in Mississippi's public schools are more than twice as likely as white students to be disciplined and punished, according to a new report from the Children's Defense Fund.
Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Washington-based group, said Friday in Jackson that many black students are on a school-to-prison pipeline that's undermining 50 years of civil rights progress.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two reputed gang members pleaded not guilty to hate crimes that allege they beat up black youths and tried to force an African-American family out of a neighborhood through a campaign of harassment, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
Editor’s Note: February is Black History Month. Prof. Rodney Coates reflects on the impact Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on his life and that of his family.
I remember that day, in a land far away, when you dared to dream into my reality.
That day, on that dusty road, when my dreams were awakened to the possibility of yes.
