By The Admin on August 28, 2009
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor
- Just outside Lee Harvey Oswald’s old New Orleans apartment, Harold Cavilliere pauses as he places an assortment of hats on a wrought-iron fence as part of his weekly Saturday yard sale along Magazine Street.
With the qualifying date for the mayoral election only three months away, who is the right man [...]
Posted in Louisiana, State & Local News
By The Admin on August 28, 2009
Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups.
The report echoes some unpublished information from Boston that found three out of four Bostonians hospitalized from [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on August 28, 2009
Costco Wholesale Corp. on Thursday apologized to any of its customers who may have been offended by a doll the company pulled from its stores after a complaint about possible racist connotations.
The doll wore a headband that said “Lil’ Monkey” and was cuddling with a stuffed monkey. The “Cuddle with Me, Doll with Plush Monkey” [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on August 28, 2009
Emmett Till’s family is donating the civil rights-era lynching victim’s original casket to the Smithsonian Institution.
A news conference is planned Friday at the same Chicago church where the teen’s brutalized remains were displayed in the glass-topped casket in 1955. He was killed in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman.
Till’s casket will be at the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on August 28, 2009
HUMA KHAN, ABC News
- It was 46 years ago today that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, spoke passionately about his dreams and hopes for equality in the United States.
And just a year ago, on this day, President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency. [...]
Posted in National Politics
