By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Hastings Wyman, Southern Political Report
- The four candidates for mayor of Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, represent distinctly different segments of the city’s population. The four contenders include Annise Parker, a woman and a lesbian; Gene Locke, an African-American; Peter Brown, an older white male; and Roy Morales, a Latino.
Although the election is non-partisan, [...]
Posted in State & Local News, Texas
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Anthony Calypso, The Grio
- When Sister Georginah Githinji arrived in the U.S. from Kenya she thought of her trip as a miracle.
Githinji, a Kenyan Catholic nun, came to the States in 2004 to look for membership in a new congregation of sisters, or nuns. After visiting a group of Kenyan sisters who were already living [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Architects and designers are gathering in South Carolina to discuss ideas for the planned International African American Museum.
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and designers hold an opening meeting Wednesday to discuss the planned $69 million museum to be located near the South Carolina Aquarium on the edge of the city’s historic district.
Exhibit designer Ralph Appelbaum and [...]
Posted in South Carolina
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Hazel Trice Edney, NNPA Editor-in-Chief
- This week marks the 46th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Nearly a half century since the march that drew more than 200,000 to Washington, D.C., Black activists confess they have changed their strategy in the wake of an African-American President, but they [...]
Posted in National Politics
By The Admin on August 26, 2009
Reuters
- President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday.
In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his [...]
Posted in International News, Party Politics, Race
