April 2010
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Black teens more optimistic than peers
Bria Fleming has been through a lot in the last year, including her mother’s hospitalization and job loss and a fire in their home. It’d be enough to get most 18-year-olds down. But the black high school student is surprisingly optimistic about the future and her chances for a better life — an attitude common [...]
D.C. delegate: Obama unlikely to pick African-American for Court
Russell Berman, The Hill – President Barack Obama is unlikely to name an African-American to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, and perhaps at all during his presidency, a black lawmaker who briefed the Congressional Black Caucus on judicial nominations said Wednesday. “We’re not sure this president [...]
Cummings Chairs Hearing On Coast Guard Diversity
Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, (MD-07), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, convened a hearing Tuesday regarding Civil Rights programs and diversity initiatives in the United States Coast Guard. The hearing examined a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concerning changes made by the Coast Guard’s Civil Rights Directorate. The [...]
Malcolm X Assassin Hagan Is Freed on Parole in NYC
The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he helped gun down the civil rights leader. Thomas Hagan was the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, part of the skein of violence that wound through the cultural and political [...]
Obama pleads for bipartisan immigration reform
President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned of harassment against Hispanics under Arizona’s tough new immigration law, saying such “poorly conceived” measures can be halted if the federal government fixes the nation’s broken immigration system for good. Obama pledged to bring his own party along, pleading with Republicans to join in as the only realistic hope [...]
