Cover Stories: Diversity, Illegal Immigration & Race Articles
June 1st, 2010
Written by Ann Tierney Prochnow in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
The 2010 Census is well underway and many governmental agencies, educational institutions, and providers of goods and services are eagerly awaiting the findings to determine how they might affect many of their operational decisions in the years to come.As the current Census is being completed, now is a good time to look back over the last century and see how the face of America has evolved.The...
May 11th, 2010
Written by Jake Singleton in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
On the morning of February 3, 1903, clergy, attorneys, educators and other prominent African-American citizens from St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph gathered in the A.M.E. church in Jefferson City, Mo. They came to plan their presentation at a committee hearing in the Missouri House of Representatives to show why it should kill a bill that would require all railroads in Missouri to run...
April 16th, 2010
Written by Lillian A. Jackson in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
What can be said of race relations among Americans in the new millennium? It is 144 years since the emancipation of the slaves, 55 years since Brown v. The Board of Education, and 45 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Today a black man is the president of the United States. Nevertheless, how far have we really come and how far do we have to go? RiseUp set out to learn how...
April 5th, 2010
Written by David Conrads in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Of all the components that make up American cities, none has more impact on a city’s sense of community, prosperity, and public life than its streets.As transportation arteries, streets have the capacity to unify disparate groups, allow people to move with relative freedom from one part of town to another, yet, these same streets may also serve to divide and isolate. In the days of legal...
February 26th, 2010
Written by Amy OLoughlin in Cover Stories with 1 Comment
On May 5, 1905, Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender newspaper, published in Chicago, Illinois. The Defender began with an introductory investment of 25 cents and a press run of 300 issues, but it grew into the most influential African-American publication in the United States during the early to mid 20th century. Abbott, the son of former slaves, gained success as one of the...
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