By The Admin on July 18, 2011
Washington Times
- Earlier this month, a black woman complained that while traveling, she was pulled aside by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners so they could search her thick coifed hair.
She said she was racially profiled. TSA responded that it is their practice to search anything that looks too poofy, and so in the past TSA [...]
Posted in Federal Government, Race
By The Admin on July 18, 2011
Washington Post
- Back in 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Holly Springs, he met a man who turned out to be the descendant of an African American Civil War veteran.
“I found it ironic that a guy [...]
Posted in Washington D.C.
By The Admin on July 16, 2011
The political wrangling could continue until fall for Carl Lewis, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist who wants to compete as a Democrat for a seat in the New Jersey Legislature.
Republicans have challenged his bid for office, saying he lost the qualifying heat by failing to meet the state’s four-year residency requirement. Lewis, a New Jersey [...]
Posted in New Jersey
By The Admin on July 16, 2011
Politico
- Just before 2011, the House GOP had gone seven years without a single black member. Soon, it could have three.
Michael Williams, a former Texas railroad commissioner who worked in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, recently dropped his Senate bid to run for a newly created congressional district based in Arlington. The [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Congress, Party Politics
By The Admin on July 13, 2011
Atlanta firefighters have put out a fire in a building at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.
The blaze was reported around 6 a.m. Wednesday at a building about half a block from King’s tomb.
Battalion Chief Todd Edwards says crews from a nearby fire station arrived shortly after the fire broke out in a [...]
Posted in Georgia
