Truemors
Ann Nixon Cooper, Centenarian Obama Voter, Dies at 107
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...
The price of hiding in the shadows: Black & Gay in America
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... 
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago
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478 views | 48 recommendations | 13 comments
Who's teaching America's youth how to be racist in 2009?
"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... 888 views | 90 recommendations | 25 comments
Study Abroad Distinguished Impossible from Merely Improbable
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...
Dr. Henry Louis Gates: Interviewed Discussing Racial Profiling
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... 
created by Karen Hatter | 22 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
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468 views | 20 recommendations | 10 comments
Creative Steps Day Camp Says No to Reinstatement Swim Club Offer
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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827 views | 41 recommendations | 6 comments
Creative Steps Campers Share Their Thoughts on Valley Swim Club
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,...
created by Karen Hatter | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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628 views | 30 recommendations | 10 comments
Day Camp Kids Told Minorities Not Allowed in Phila., PA Pool
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...
created by Karen Hatter | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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4613 views | 115 recommendations | 50 comments
The Politics of Fear
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... 844 views | 52 recommendations | 20 comments
Oscar Grant Shooting: Johannes Mehserle's Murder Trial
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... 
Virginia Voters Reject Bill Clinton In Virginia Governor's Race
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... 119 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Human Genome Research Advances Without Discussion of "Race"
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...
created by francislholland | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago
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108 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
D.C. HIV/AIDS Report: HIV and AIDS Cases Rise 22 Percent In D.C.
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...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago
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918 views | 60 recommendations | 11 comments
