August 2010
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Black women hampered by gender and race post-Katrina
Louisiana Weekly – Black women are struggling to find employment in New Orleans and are being hindered by gender and race five years after Hurricane Katrina, according to two fact sheets presented last week by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. In 2005, women made up slightly more than half of the New [...]
Re-enactors keep memory of black Civil War troops
The role of black Civil War troops in gaining the freedom of black Americans was pushed to a distant corner of the national memory for decades. But the little-known story of the more than 200,000 blacks who served in the Union forces is one that scattered groups of black re-enactors are dedicated to retelling as [...]
Putting Minorities Onstage: In Politics, Diversity is a Winning Message
Politics Daily – The latest grievance from the Tea Party nation is how the mostly white mainstream media projects its own flaws onto mainstream America when they report that most of the attendees at Glenn Beck’s rally on Saturday were white. The allegation triggers memories of another big event, the 2000 Republican National Convention in [...]
Parents Push For Diversity In New Orleans’ Schools
NPR – The New Orleans school system has been almost completely remade since Hurricane Katrina hit five years ago: Test scores are climbing, new charter schools are opening all the time, and facilities are being upgraded. But one thing has changed little — the population of the city’s public schools is overwhelmingly African-American. Some parents [...]
Texas congresswoman Johnson admits she violated rules
A Texas congresswoman admitted that she wrongly steered thousands of dollars in college scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to her own relatives and children of a staff member but said she did so unwittingly. Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson told The Dallas Morning News that she arranged the scholarships over the last four [...]
