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Recordings by Donna Summer, ex-slaves joining collection at Library of Congress
From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry. Summer’s 1977 hit “I Feel Love” is joining the Grateful Dead’s famous 1977 Barton Hall concert as sounds of cultural significance, among 25 [...]
Increase In Loan Interest Rates Defers Black Students’ Dreams
The recent efforts to protect students from facing interest rates on their student loans estimated to double by July 1, 2012, is critical to ensuring that the next generation of college students is financially able to contribute to our economy as opposed to becoming victim of its financial debt and distress. With Black unemployment at [...]
Black-owned United Bank is more than the sum of its assets
Twenty years ago, in economic conditions similar to those we face today, a team of Philadelphia business and civic leaders formed United Bank, an African American-controlled and -focused bank chartered by the commonwealth. With African Americans making up the region’s largest minority, and with lending to African American individuals, businesses, and institutions disproportionately low, the [...]
Prosecutor to release evidence in FAMU hazing case
Prosecutors are expected to release evidence they have against the 13 people charged in last year’s hazing death of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion. A state attorney’s office spokeswoman says hundreds of pages of documents and audio files will be released Wednesday. Champion died in November following what authorities have said was a hazing [...]
For black Mormons, a political choice like no other
When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking stereotypes about African-Americans. Then she converted to Mormonism herself, and went on to spend a good deal of [...]
