August 2010
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Black Muslims Left Out of National Conversation on Islam
Black Voice News – “We have to be able to decode what’s happening and realize that this is religious intolerance on one hand, and it’s [also] good ol’ red-blooded American racial and ethnic bias on the other hand,” said Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, sitting in his office at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. in [...]
Education secretary says U.S. needs more minority teachers
CNN – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Saturday that he plans to recruit more African-American and Latino teachers in a bid to narrow achievement gaps among students. African-American males make up less than 2 percent of teachers nationwide, Duncan told CNN, while African-American and Latino males — combined — represent roughly 3.5 percent of [...]
Lawmaker violated rules by steering CBC Foundation scholarships to relatives
Dallas Morning News – Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide’s two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers’ causes. The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. [...]
President Obama blasts lies, disinformation
Politico – President Barack Obama dismissed a recent poll showing that a third of Americans don’t know he’s a Christian — and blamed an online campaign of misinformation by his conservative enemies for perpetuating the myth that he’s a Muslim. Obama, speaking with NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams on Sunday afternoon, was equally dismissive [...]
On Glenn Beck and Al Sharpton’s Separate and Unequal Rallies
Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – The New York Times cyber headline “Beck and Sharpton hold parallel rallies” perhaps says it best. 47 years to the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his vision of an America where race matters less than character, two men, both self anointed heirs to his legacy and that vision, [...]
