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May 21st, 2014

Quality Education Still Eludes Most Minority Children

Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Why isn’t a quality education for blacks and other minorities higher on the list of our national priorities – sixty years later?
Quality educational opportunities still elude most minority children sixty years after the victory of Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that was supposed to end segregated schools and provide a pathway for black children and other minorities to have equal access to a quality education. It was in the month of May in 1954, that blacks thought they had won the opportunity to...
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May 15th, 2014

Motherhood: One of the Oldest and Greatest Professions

Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Motherhood has always been one of the toughest jobs on earth. And today, with all the forces tugging at both mothers and children, in many respects the job is tougher.
Motherhood is still one of the oldest and greatest professions on earth. There is a lot to the old adage, "Your mother will be there for you no matter what." And usually mothers are unless there are some extenuating circumstance, like physical or mental illness, extreme drug or alcohol addiction or, too often, misplaced priorities. Mothers – those who choose the role or accept the role thrust...
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April 22nd, 2014

Race Relations in Mississippi Has Changed

Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Common Ties That Bind, Race Relations with 0 Comments
In this March 9, 2011 photograph, Senate Rules Committee member David Jordan, D-Greenwood, votes against a proposed substitute Senate Redistricting plan at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The veteran lawmaker has recently penned a memoir that documents changes in the state's race relations and changes in voting rights over his lifetime.
Race relations in Mississippi has changed during the last sixty years according to Mississippi legislator, David Jordan. Jordan was born on a Mississippi Delta plantation during the Great Depression, when segregation and poverty created a bleak outlook for a son of black sharecroppers. Eighty years later, Jordan is a retired science teacher, longtime Greenwood City Council member and prominent...
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April 15th, 2014

President Obama Says Voting Rights At Risk for Blacks and Minorities

Written by The Associated Press in Common Ties That Bind, Race Relations with 4 Comments
Republican Party is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, according to President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama said the Republican Party is threatening voting rights in America more than at any point since the passage of a historic 1965 law expanding rights at the ballot box to millions of black Americans and other minorities. Obama's critique of Republicans on Friday came as he seeks to mobilize voters ahead of the November congressional elections, when Democratic control of the...
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April 15th, 2014

Rosa Parks Deserves More

Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Publisher's Note, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Rosa Parks' belongings, the value of which is estimated to be in the millions of dollars, are now on the auction block waiting to be passed on the highest bidder.
The legacy of Rosa Parks deserves more than being caught up in a legal entanglement in the courts and dust in a New York warehouse. During the year that we are remembering and commemorating many aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, tangible elements and items of history which would help inform generations of younger Americans about one of the movement's pioneering figures are hidden from view....
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