By The Admin on August 22, 2011
WTVR
- Former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder is known around the United States as the first African-American to be elected governor of a state.
In the more than 20 since Governor Wilder’s historic election in Virginia, voters in Massachusetts have elected an African-American governor and Americans have elected President Barack Obama to the White House.
Despite those [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on August 19, 2011
Seattle Medium
- Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) – witnessing thousands of Black people lining up for CBC job fairs and town hall meetings around the country – is warning that African-American frustrations could result in voters staying home on presidential election day Nov. 6, 2012.
“Citizens of this country are hungering for work. And [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections
By The Admin on August 19, 2011
Southern Political Report
- For the first time in Mississippi’s history, a black gubernatorial candidate has advanced to the runoff of a major party. In the August 2 Democratic Primary, three-term mayor of Hattiesburg Johnny DuPree, an African-American, came in first with 43 percent of the vote, followed by 39 percent for Delta attorney Bill Luckett, [...]
Posted in 2012 Elections, Mississippi
By The Admin on August 19, 2011
BET
- PBS broadcaster Tavis Smiley will make an inquiry into an alarming truth that is well known yet rarely discussed: the number of African-American high school drop-outs, specifically males, is increasing at an alarming rate.
A 2006 study by The Manhattan Institute surveyed 100 of the largest school districts in the United States and found that [...]
Posted in Education, Race
By The Admin on August 16, 2011
Wall Street Journal
- Katy Daugherty enrolled at Tennessee State University because of the school’s flexible daytime, evening and online classes and its new urban-studies program.
Once on campus at this historically black college, where more than 70% of the students are African-American, Ms. Daugherty, 29, who is white, became the minority.
“It was definitely different, having grown [...]
Posted in Education, Race
