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This is certainly an interesting political campaign for Mayor in the nation’s capital. In January I wrote a Friday Comment titled The Perils of Bourgeois Politics and this campaign certainly looks like I was dead on in my commentary according to this Washington Post article. Lets keep our eyes on this campaign because it will [...]

Five myths about mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV
Curtis is millennium chair of liberal arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of “Muslims in America: A Short History” and the editor of the “Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.”
Source: Washington Post
Sunday, August 29, 2010; B03
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the [...]

I do not remember much about August 28, 1963 because I was just shy of my seventh birthday. In my young forming mind I was not thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr. or the protest that had been waged in Birmingham, Alabama that spring. The thing that most concerned me that August was my baseball [...]

Michelle Chen
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It appears that despite Washington’s attempts to close the racial “achievement gap,” the educational colorline still looms over Black youth.
According to a study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education, fewer than half of Black male students graduated from high school on time in the 2007-2008 [...]

In 1990, Activist and Legendary actors, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis visited Fort Wayne, IN to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gingerbread House Preschool center. A portion of their Panel Discussion appeared on a talks show entitled “A New Generation”.
Via www.SoulVisionTV.com

My uncle, Edward Nelson, Jr., whom we called June, was disabled. Throughout my childhood I never thought about him having a disability of any kind. To me he was physically strong, exceedingly intelligent, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, Times-Picayune, the National Enquirer, and the Jet along with westerns and detective novels. In [...]

GOOD Education > Nikhil Swaminathan on August 11, 2010 at 3:00 pm PDT
Much like the achievement gap in K-12 schooling, higher education is plagued by its own gap—with respect to minority graduation rates. Nationwide, 60 percent of white students earn a degree within six years on a college campus, compared to only 40 percent of [...]

Antiviolence Ritual From a Faraway Land
By RACHEL CROMIDAS
August 12, 2010
After years of frustration, Cheryl Graves was ready to consider a different solution to Chicago’s problem of youth violence.
Ms. Graves, a community organizer, had spent more than 10 years training representatives of the intervention group CeaseFire and administrators of violence-ridden Fenger High School in conflict-resolution techniques [...]

For all the talk of Maxine Water’s so call “ethics violations” the people in her district love and respect her. We have very few “Democrats,” especially blue-dog ones standing up for the black and brown urban working class and poor. We will watch the outcomes of Ms. Water’s very carefully.
Still Waters: Lawmaker remains popular at [...]

Wyclef Jean on Tuesday announced his bid to run for president of Haiti in the country’s Nov. 28 election. Analysts say Wyclef Jean is in a strong position to become Haiti president after René Préval.

Haitian musician Wyclef Jean, right, gives a pack of goods to a woman at a camp for [...]