By The Admin on February 25, 2010
The Sprite Step Off was initially created as a way to recognize talented college students and give out scholarships to help support their higher education. If we put on some entertaining step shows and brought people together along the way, all the better.
After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on February 25, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- University of California, San Diego chancellor Marye Anne Fox, the president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, UCSD student leaders, and a bevy of civil rights leaders, and black and minority California lawmakers leaped over each other to lambaste the now infamous Compton Cookout at UCSD as racially insulting, insensitive, and demeaning. On [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on February 23, 2010
JEANNE CUMMINGS, Politico
- Republican National Chairman Michael Steele is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers – expenses that are infuriating the party’s major donors who say Republicans need every penny they can get for the fight to win back Congress.
Most recently, donors [...]
Posted in Party Politics
By The Admin on February 23, 2010
A judge has ruled that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick must return to court Friday to be arraigned on a probation violation warrant.
The judge said Tuesday that a warrant will soon be issued for Kilpatrick. He ordered Kilpatrick to appear in his courtroom for failing to make a required $79,000 restitution payment. The former mayor [...]
Posted in Michigan, State & Local News
By The Admin on February 23, 2010
Boston Globe Editorial
- Black farmers appear to have finally tilled the once-fallow political soils of Washington. A week that began with a farmer protest in front of the Department of Agriculture ended last Thursday with the Obama administration announcing a $1.25 billion settlement to redress past discrimination in the way the USDA provided loans to [...]
Posted in Federal Government
