Ann Nixon Cooper, an Atlanta, Georgia-based centenarian who voted for the first time in her life for President Barack Obama in 2008, died Monday, December 21, 2009 at the age of 107. Born in 1902, Nixon Cooper did...
In Black men in America: The Obama effect, a reader wondered why everytime the gay issue is raised in the black community, everybody can't wait until it's time for the next subject. It was brought to my attention...
"The unfortunate thing is that racism is real. Racism does still exist here in America. I've seen it with my own eyes. And every time Nancy Pelosi or David Paterson or David Letterman pretends it lives somewhere...
Studying abroad is a challenge that over 100,000 U.S. university students annually take on, spending one semester or more studying abroad. I have been among those students, having studied abroad in Chile, Peru, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico on...
Last week, after returning home from an overseas trip to China, world renowned African American Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, was arrested in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Cambridge police who...
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At a news conference yesterday, July 13, 2009, Creative Steps Day Camp director, Alethea Wright, surrounded by many of the parents of the children of the campers and their children, said the camp will not...
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As some of the campers from Creative Steps Day Camp engaged in activities meant to fill their days with fun, their recent experience at the Valley Swim Club was not far from their minds. On June 29,...
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After paying the $1900.00 membership fee required by the Valley Swim Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a private club that advertised 'open membership', the children of the Creative Steps Day Camp, mostly...
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Click on Photo for a Piece of Family History * Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland's Diary.Since I learned yesterday that Terry McCauliffe was trounced in his Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, by a large margin, I've been thinking that the biggest...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his inauguration speech in 1933: " .... let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror...
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Judge Don Clay ruled on June 4 that Johannes Mehserle will stand trial for the January 1 murder of Oscar Grant, an unarmed African American man, age 22. Mehserle shot Grant on the platform of a San...
Today, by reading scientific results of studies instead of sociological commentary, I have learned something about African people that I didn't know before: Africans are more diverse genetically than people anywhere else in the world, finds a study that "was funded by the...
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Update: Monday, March 16, 2009; 7:07 pm EST: As noted at the end of this story, Dr. Hader was to take questions about the levels of HIV/AIDS cases in the Washington, D.C. area today at 2:00 pm. Questions and...
Black Girl Get's Beat - Not a word from the NAACP While CBS News, bloggers, Now Public, and other news outlet's highlight how a teen aged black girl in the United States was kicked and punched by a sheriff's deputy on a jail surveillance, we have silence from the...
opinion by AAPPundit | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 164 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"Should Black History Month itself fade into history?Many have long argued that African-American history should be incorporated into year-round education. Now, claims that Black History Month is outdated are...