By The Admin on July 25, 2011
CNN
- Tamara Winfrey Harris tells a story of being in a chain restaurant with her husband when their names were called for a table.
Just as the couple rose to go, a middle-aged white woman standing nearby reached out swiftly to touch Winfrey Harris’s hair which at the time was styled in natural twists.
“She missed by [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on July 25, 2011
Courthouse News Service
- A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn’t let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court.
Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Education
By The Admin on July 25, 2011
Atlanta school officials say 41 educators accused in a cheating scandal have resigned or retired.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that, according to district data, 13 educators have left since the state issued a scathing report detailing cheating. The report alleged cheating on standardized tests dating back to 2001 in nearly half of the district’s 100 schools.
Officials [...]
Posted in Education, Georgia
By The Admin on July 25, 2011
The ban on gays in the military has stood for nearly a century.
In 60 days, after decades of discharges, lawsuits and lobbying, that will change.
On Friday, President Barack Obama fulfilled a 2008 campaign pledge, formally ending the ban. After meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, [...]
Posted in Military
By The Admin on July 25, 2011
Houston Chronicle
- John Branch has spent his life in Independence Heights, testament to his faith in the value of history. But if the past hasn’t changed, the future assuredly will.
So Branch and a dozen of his neighbors, most in their 50s and, like him, lifelong residents of the first incorporated African-American settlement in Texas, are [...]
Posted in Texas
