By The Admin on April 27, 2011
Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina that nearly wiped out Southern University at New Orleans in 2005.
Now the predominantly African-American university faces what students and administrators view as a new threat: Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal to consolidate the school with the nearby, mostly [...]
Posted in Louisiana, Race
By The Admin on April 27, 2011
Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director
- In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President’s campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President’s birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on [...]
Posted in White House
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
FOX News
- In 1924, a major league baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants was a hot ticket. So hot, that not even then-Reds President August Herrmann could grant the Ku Klux Klan a Sunday afternoon “Klan Day” at Redland Field.
Yes, that was a legitimate request in 1924.
A three-page letter addressed to [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Laurel Richie acknowledged she doesn’t know a lot about the WNBA’s history. Still, days after being hired as the WNBA’s third president, she called it a ‘dream job.’
“I am learning along the way,” Richie said Tuesday on a national conference call with reporters. “I have been, as part of the interviewing process, spending lots of [...]
Posted in Featured, Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on April 26, 2011
Politico
- Rev. Jesse Jackson told POLITICO today that the birther movement is part of a larger pattern of rollbacks against civil rights and and an attack on the legitimacy of the nation’s first African-American president — reserving special ire for developer Donald Trump and his renewed interest in the conspiracy theory.
“Any discussion of his birthplace [...]
Posted in Race, White House
