March 2009
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Jimi Hendrix childhood home dismantled in Wash.
The childhood home where rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation efforts failed. Barely a shell of the 900-square-foot house originally in Seattle’s Central Area neighborhood remains on a lot across the street from where Hendrix was buried. Owner Pete Sikov [...]
Black police say white Pa. officer should be fired for racist remarks
Some black Philadelphia police officers say a white colleague should be fired for making derogatory racial remarks to a student journalist. An article written at Temple University says Officer William Thrasher used an obscene phrase with an epithet to describe petty altercations in black neighborhoods. The 24-year-old officer also described some residents as “animals.” But [...]
Andover family objects to KKK board game as learning tool
Parents of a seventh-grade Andover Middle School student have contacted the Wichita branch NAACP about a Ku Klux Klan board game a student created for a class project. The student took it to school as part of a research assignment about historical figures. Terica Davis, who is African-American and has a child attending the [...]
Rural NY House race gets national attention
A special election Tuesday in the state’s 20th Congressional District started with a sharply criticized, secretive appointment to the U.S. Senate and some believe it will end as a referendum on President Barack Obama and his economic policies. Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy fought a bitter and expensive race on a compressed schedule [...]
The Purple Leadership of Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker
Lanny Davis, Huffington Post – When he ran first ran for office as a young African American, some of the black political establishment accused him of not being “black enough.” When he graduated from a prestigious law school, he chose to do community organizing in an inner city neighborhood where too many black men were [...]
