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May 30, 2011
On March 30, I waited for a car that Manning Marable was supposed to send to pick me up at my house so that we could meet later that day in his office at Columbia University because he wanted to interview me as part of an oral history project.
May 23, 2011
The teachers work at a predominantly black elementary school that has a recent history of racial tension. Their lawsuits say that a former principal had them read an article that said “white teachers do not have the ability to teach African-American students.”
May 23, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas opened up to an audience of attorneys in his home state of Georgia on Tuesday, comparing critics of the bench to die-hard sports fans and wondering aloud whether they suffer from a “disease of illiteracy or laziness.”
May 23, 2011
Perhaps there was never much of a struggle in Obama’s heart. Perhaps West only provided a moral veneer. Perhaps the dark heart of Emanuel was always the dark heart of Obama. Only Obama knows. But we know how the play ends. West is banished like honest Kent in “King Lear.”
May 15, 2011
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
May 15, 2011
State Rep. Louise Williams Bishop, D- Phila., has introduced legislation that would eliminate the current Philadelphia School Reform Commission and allow the district to be operated by an elected school board.
May 8, 2011
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has joined the state chapter of the NAACP, the Oklahoma Democratic Party and the Oklahoma chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in calling for the resignation of Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern…
May 8, 2011
More than 2,000 people from all over the U.S. gathered here on Saturday for the 40th anniversary of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Diverse Issues in Higher Education reports.. They celebrated accomplishments of the past and looked to the future of the Center’s ongoing struggle for civil rights.
May 8, 2011
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has presented U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) with its highest honor, the 2011 Louis E. Martin Great American Award, in recognition of his decades of exemplary service as…
May 2, 2011
Visualize being miles away from your home and family and knowing that you will be surviving for the next couple of weeks with little or no money in your pockets and feeling imprisoned indoors due to a very rainy day.
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