By The Admin on February 28, 2011
Three years ago, Lamar Grace left Detroit for the suburb of Southfield. He got a good deal — a 3,000-square-foot colonial that once was worth $220,000. In foreclosure, he paid $109,000.
The neighbors were not pleased.
“They don’t want to live next door to ghetto folks,” he says.
That his neighbors are black, like Grace, is immaterial. Many [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Race
By The Admin on February 28, 2011
AFL-CIO
- Even though the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, the subsequent jobless recovery continues to inflict great pain on working families. This is especially true in the black community, where the unemployment rate of 15.7 percent in January was higher than at the end of the recession (14.9 percent). Conservatives ignore this misery [...]
Posted in Money & Finance
By The Admin on February 28, 2011
Ken Raymond
- Many former slaves left a political legacy that’s been ignored or completely forgotten by their descendants–even during Black History Month.
As they struggled against the violence and racism of the mid-1800’s, it’s likely they thought the inheritance they left would continue to improve the lives of their descendants.
Their legacy is the Republican Party.
For decades, [...]
Posted in Party Politics, Race
By The Admin on February 28, 2011
Washington Post
- In Richmond, Latrina Hite cuts up fruit for the children’s morning snack at Precious Blessing Academy. She fixes their lunch. She mops restrooms, bleaches doorknobs to kill germs and helps students with homework in after-school care.
All of this she does because she cannot otherwise afford to send two children and a grandchild to [...]
Posted in Education, Virginia
By The Admin on February 28, 2011
WPTV
- After resigning his congressional seat in 1998, Newt Gingrich didn’t think he’d ever be this close to making a run for president.
And if he does run, he told NewsChannel ’s Evan Axelbank at an annual Palm Beach County GOP fundraiser, that Florida’s elected officials will get lots of consideration as Vice Presidential picks. He [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections
