The United States Navy will let women serve on submarines starting in 2011. Female officers will start training for submarine duty next year, but will still not be allowed on attack submarines. According to the...
created by Annina Bergman | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago 226 views | 17 recommendations | 9 comments
Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, knows what racism is and, according to him, opposing a radical political agenda or voicing opposition to President Obama's policy proposals is not...
The Washington Post today is focusing attention on a pool in Pennsylvania that told Black children they couldn't swim there because . . . they're Black. Although lawsuits are certainly an option in this case, I actually think that the protests these children are...
opinion by francislholland | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 528 views | 3 recommendations | 5 comments
Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...
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On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas on horseback, accompanied by 2,000 Union soldiers and read General Order 3 to those assembled, including the 250,000 enslaved persons of...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago 446 views | 52 recommendations | 9 comments
Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know...
opinion by francislholland | 20 wks ago | updated 20 wks ago 97 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I can see it now .... all across the United States of America and around the world, where Black History Month is celebrated in February, teachers informing their students that not everyone can do a report on...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 39 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 1237 views | 45 recommendations | 17 comments
From the New York Times: "The election of Barack Obama was like a culmination of a struggle that we were going through, wanting to be pilots,” said William M. Wheeler, 85, a retired Tuskegee combat fighter...
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Michelle Obama, born in 1964, will be America's next first lady. When she moves into the White House in January, a mansion built partially by slaves, "she will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather, who...
On Tuesday evening, July 29, 2008, House Resolution 194 was passed by voice vote. This bill represents the first time the federal government has apologized for slavery or segregation.
The bill was first...
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" DETROIT - In a city that would become famous for segregation, Linda Hutcherson’s early memories of her household in Detroit are of carefree times amid a pastiche of skin colors. She had loving parents — a...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 140 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
It seems ridicluous that there are empty seats and people willing to pay for them, but the fooball league won't allow it." Ticket sales suspended at Rovers Leeds fans have...
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.... Eye to eye
Station to station ...."
So go the first few lines in the chorus of that song by the late Soul Brother #1, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in his hit song of the same...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1829 views | 44 recommendations | 13 comments
"Freedom Rider: White America is Crazy for Obama
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
"Obama supporters want him to be their man, even when he tells them that he isn't."
ObamaShirtsleeveNHjpg Barack Obama drives white people crazy, some because of love and...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame opened in 1939 in Cooperstown, New York. Over half a century later -- in the early 1990s -- a group of business leaders, historians and ex baseball players founded the Negro...
created by denseatoms | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1126 views | 20 recommendations | 6 comments