July 2011
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Reid: Debt negotiations underway at White House
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says negotiations aimed at resolving the debt-limit standoff are under way at the White House. As a result, the Nevada Democrat postponed a test vote on a Democratic debt limit proposal that had been scheduled for shortly after midnight. He says he’s delaying that vote until 1 p.m. Sunday to [...]
Montford Marines: Few, proud and black
CNN – Edwin J. Fizer got off the train to report for training at Montford Point, North Carolina in the summer of 1942. He, like all proud Marines, had to prove his mettle. Except, Fizer had another tough hurdle. He was black, and until then, the U.S. Marine Corps had been all white. But in [...]
African-American Middle Class Eroding As Unemployment Rate Soars
Fox News – The unemployment situation across America is bad, no doubt. But for African-Americans in some cities, this is not the great recession. It’s the Great Depression. Take Charlotte, N.C., for example. It is a jewel of the “new South.” The largest financial center outside of New York City, it’s the showcase for next [...]
Unearthing Traces of African-American Village Displaced by Central Park
New York Times – For more than a decade, anthropologists and historians pieced together the history of a short-lived African-American community that was snuffed out in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. They combed vital records and tax documents, scanned parkland using radar and studied soil borings. But because the vestiges of the [...]
Recovering US job market is leaving black men behind
Christian Science Monitor – The jobs landscape is bleak for any unemployed American, but for black men it’s virtually a desert. For them, the Great Recession not only led to the largest increase in unemployment for any category of American worker, but it also is pinching a lot longer. About 1 in 6 black men [...]
