By The Admin on March 30, 2011
UNCF–the United Negro College Fund–the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, needs communities’ support across America to help thousands of economy-impacted college students short of funds to pay their tuition and room and board balances in order to graduate this spring. The UNCF Campaign For Emergency Student Aid is an initiative to [...]
Posted in Education, Featured
By The Admin on March 30, 2011
Bloomberg
- Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and Merrill Lynch & Co. won dismissal of a lawsuit by black financial advisers that accused them of devising a discriminatory retention bonus plan after the bank announced a proposal to buy the securities firm in 2008.
U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman in Chicago yesterday threw out the case, the [...]
Posted in Money & Finance, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 30, 2011
With more blacks moving from city to suburb, the National Urban League says it is worried states may improperly seek to stem the political clout of African-Americans as they spread into historically white districts.
The leader of the 101-year-old organization also says he is troubled by complaints from big-city mayors such as those in New [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on March 30, 2011
Only weeks after cutting billions in education funding, House Republicans have scheduled a vote today on legislation (H.R. 471) that would increase the federal deficit by reestablishing the failed District of Columbia voucher program.
“Our highest priority must be to use limited taxpayer dollars to support programs that will truly meet all of our children’s educational [...]
Posted in Congress, Education
By The Admin on March 30, 2011
H. Lewis Smith
- Visualize a circle about the size of a grapefruit, and imagine that the space inside this circle represents an individual’s total, inclusive realm of knowledge. At the same time, this same individual is also mindful that there is more knowledge outside of their particular circumference of awareness. However, when somebody reveals some [...]
Posted in Media, Race
