From the monthly archives: August 2011
Mrs. Isaac Atkins was discharged for cause as Superintendent of the Greene County School System at a school board meeting held on Monday, August 29. The discharge was effective immediately and came after a hearing that ended about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday night and 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. A number of witnesses testified including [...]
At the end of a meeting Monday night, August 29, 2011, at the Eutaw Activity Center, attended by over 200 people, which had the feel reminiscent of a “civil rights mass meeting”, Luther “Nat” Winn announced that electronic bingo would return to Greenetrack by this Wednesday. In a press release issued Wednesday from [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Writers from Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe were among the top 14 playwrights in the highly-competitive 2011 BBC International Playwriting Competition. In the category of English as the first language, Benjamin Kent, from Ghana, was selected for his play The Bus, which looks at the choices [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Only four African nations have contributed emergency funds for drought-stricken Somalia, and the amounts donated have been pitifully small, according to the British aid agency Oxfam. Despite the many oil-rich countries around the continent, only South Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Sudan have stepped up [...]
Special to the NNPA from the CrossRoads News History buffs and golf aficionados can delve into the history of African-American golf at “Celebrating African-American Golf Pioneers,” an exhibit at the CNN Center Atrium, in Atlanta, through Aug. 31.The 18-by-10-foot exhibit chronicles the accomplishments of African-Americans, both nationally and in the metro Atlanta [...]
Special to the NNPA from the AFRO-American newspapers Although Princeton professor Cornel West supported President Barack Obama in 2008, his recent criticism of the nation’s first Black president may be trouble for 2012. Radio personality Tavis Smiley has also joined in the Black chorus of public dissatisfaction of Obama. It is unclear [...]
By Denise Rolark Barnes Special to NNPA from The Washington Informer The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial officially opened this week on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 28-foot tall granite statue, which stands between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, and the nearby F.D. Roosevelt memorial, is the first monument on the [...]
By John Zippert, Co-Publisher, Greene County Democrat Federal District Judge, Paul Friedman, for the District of Columbia plans to hold a ‘fairness hearing’ in the Pigford II, Black Farmers Class Action Lawsuit on Thursday, September 1, 2011 in Washington, D. C. The Pigford II case involves 65,000 Black farmers or their heirs who filed a [...]
Greene County School System has entered into a partnership with their first Teach For America teachers this year. There are five Teach for America teachers in Greene County – four in Greene County High School and one at Carver Middle School. Dr. Harriet Lewis, principal at Carver said the Teach for America [...]
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