By The Admin on May 29, 2010
Gary Coleman once said he wanted people to think of him as something more than the chubby-cheeked child star from television show “Diff’rent Strokes,” that he wanted to escape the legacy of character Arnold Jackson, whose “Whatchu talkin’ ’bout?” became a catch phrase of the 1970s and ’80s.
He spent his later years still keeping a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on May 29, 2010
Walter Jones, Morris News Service
- Savannah State University is awash in a flood of e-mails triggered by news that its former football coach, Robby Wells, has filed a reverse-discrimination lawsuit in an Atlanta federal court.
The school’s lawyer, Joe Steffen, said most of the messages have been critical of the school, some rather nasty. They came [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on May 29, 2010
Savannah State University’s ex-football coach says in a federal lawsuit that the historically black college forced him to resign because he’s white and is engaged to marry a black woman.
Robby Wells’ lawsuit accuses university officials of racial discrimination when they forced Wells out of his job in January, a month after he signed a 1-year [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on May 28, 2010
Congress has taken two big steps toward ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military.
In quick succession Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee and the full House approved measures to repeal the 1993 law that allows gay people to serve in the armed services only if they [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on May 28, 2010
Jeff Mays, Black Voices via Washington Informer
- Darrell Cannon was asleep with his common-law wife and son in 1983 when a group of white police officers burst into his Chicago apartment. They said he knew something about a homicide, threw him in the back of a police car and took him to a secluded location.
In [...]
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