By The Admin on April 20, 2010
Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post
- During her elementary school years in this rural Mississippi town, Addreal Harness, a competitive teenager with plans to be a doctor, said her classes had about the same numbers of white and black students. It was a fact she took little note of until the white kids began leaving.
Some left in [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on April 20, 2010
Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post
- The Rev. Al Sharpton has gotten a lot of ink lately. There he was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal last month. And on the front page of the Washington Post on Saturday. Both pieces marveled at how the portly preacher in jogging suits who exploded onto the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on April 20, 2010
Jim Galloway, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Michael Thurmond, known as one of the most cautious men in Georgia politics, spent the weekend on the phone with the essential stage hands of the state Democratic party, explaining the gamble he’s about to take.
The three-term state labor commissioner has plans on Wednesday – moved from Tuesday, as first reported [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections, Georgia
By The Admin on April 20, 2010
Doctors and minorities still have a dangerous mistrust of vaccines that became painfully clear during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday.
But she said the United States had “unprecedented” levels of flu vaccination for the past season and pointed to nearly $500 million in government funding [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on April 20, 2010
Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star
- The Obama White House hasn’t fulfilled the high expectations of African Americans, a panel said during a public forum at the University of Louisville.
But people speaking at the Trotter Group of black columnists also noted that African Americans didn’t make demands of Barack Obama when he was running for president, [...]
Posted in Race, White House
