By The Admin on January 23, 2010
Blake Gopnik, Washington Post
- They are called “knowledge cards” — a glossy picture on the front of each, some factoids to explain it on the back — and museums sell them in packs of 48, on all kinds of basic subjects: nature, the American presidency, the great buildings of Washington. The shop at the Smithsonian [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on January 23, 2010
Rhonda Gillespie, Chicago Defender
- After being warmly received Monday by hundreds of people attending the Rainbow/PUSH 20th Annual Scholarship Breakfast held as a youth scholarship fundraiser and in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Senate candidate Cheryle Jackson picked up a key endorsement from the Chicagoland Black Press.
Speaking at a press conference at [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Media
By The Admin on January 22, 2010
Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti’s epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday.
Authorities are worried about sanitation and disease outbreaks in makeshift settlements like the one on the city’s central Champs de [...]
Posted in International News
By The Admin on January 22, 2010
President Obama never encouraged the media concocted, ad man’s fantasy land, comparison of him to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He didn’t discourage the comparison either. He was flattered by it. But with the Massachusetts vote debacle smacking him in the face, his only hope for rebound is to really act like FDR.
FDR knew he was in [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on January 22, 2010
Tom Evans, CNN
- The devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck poverty-stricken Haiti just over a week ago offers a unique opportunity for reforming the country’s economy and institutions, a former U.S. envoy to Haiti said Thursday.
“If we can change some of those underlying factors that inhibit growth — in particular the weak government — I think [...]
Posted in International News
