By The Admin on August 16, 2011
A new episode of TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS primetime special on PBS will examine one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among teenagers specifically among black teenage males. In the fifth installment of TSR, host Tavis Smiley investigates the root causes of this calamity as [...]
Posted in Education, Race
By The Admin on August 16, 2011
Newsweek
- How did Cornel West become the administration’s No. 1 gadfly? The noted African-American scholar and radio host may have helped Barack Obama into the White House, but he has spent the better part of the president’s term taking shots at him, calling him a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs,” among other names. “These [...]
Posted in Race, White House
By The Admin on August 16, 2011
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- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn approved a new commission that will study social and economic issues including health services, employment and education in Black communities in Chicago.
“We know that disparities exist within the African-American community, preventing some from achieving their full potential,” Quinn said in a statement. “In Illinois, we want everybody in, and nobody [...]
Posted in Illinois, Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
Los Angeles Times
- Reporting from Jackson, Miss.— More than 500 people, including clergymen, elected officials and mothers pushing strollers, gathered here Sunday to denounce the killing of an African American auto plant employee in what authorities say was a racially motivated hate crime.
The slaying of James C. Anderson initially attracted little notice outside the immediate [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
In the 1987 film comedy “Hollywood Shuffle,” Bobby Taylor (played by Robert Townsend) is a young black actor willing to take any film role he can land, even if it’s degrading. “I need the work!” he tells his disapproving grandmother. “Humph!” she replies: “There’s work at the post office!”
It’s painful to watch the U.S. Postal [...]
Posted in Federal Government, Race
