September 2007
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50 Years Since Little Rock Integration
ANDREW DeMILLO , Associated Press Fifty years after federal troops escorted Terrence Roberts and eight fellow black students into an all-white high school, he says the struggles over race and segregation still are unresolved. “This country has demonstrated over time that it is not prepared to operate as an integrated society,” said Roberts, who is [...]
Injustice is bigger than Jena 6
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune We black Americans seem to need a major event or outrage every so often that revives our mass energies in ways that remind of us the 1960s civil rights movement. In the 1980s we had mass arrests at the South African Embassy to protest apartheid. In the 1990s there was the [...]
Fla. Democrats Set to Stick to Jan. 29 Vote
Brendan Farrington,Associated Press The Florida Democratic Party will stick with a Jan. 29 presidential primary even if it means losing all its nominating convention delegates, a party source said Saturday. The Democratic National Committee voted last month to strip Florida of its 210 delegates if the state party held a primary before Feb. 5, but [...]
Bloggers a Force Behind Jena Protests
Eric Weiner, NPR For months, the story of the so-called “Jena Six” unfolded largely out of sight of the mainstream media. But in the emerging “Afro-Sphere,” as some call the loose network of black bloggers, the story of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate passed from [...]
Protesters Stand Up For Jena 6 and More
Tracie Powell, Diverse Issues in Higher Education A Black West Virginia woman was sexually assaulted, stabbed and tortured, with one of her White abductors telling her, “That’s what we do to niggers around here.” Hate crime charges are yet to be filed in the case because the penalty isn’t as stringent as state-level kidnapping, assault [...]
