From the daily archives: Thursday, November 3, 2011
By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News After almost five months of delays, Haiti has gotten a full operational government headed by Dr. Garry Conille, gynecologist and former United Nations official in Africa. And as if that news wasn’t good enough for President Michel Martelly, [...]
Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com LDF joined more than 80 civil rights, disability, parent, student, grassroots and education organizations from across the country to urge Congress not to turn back the clock on teacher quality gains for poor and minority students, English Learners, and students with disabilities as it considers reauthorization of the Elementary [...]
By Ben Wrobel Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Voice WASHINGTON — With a few steps to the left and a few steps to the right, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin recently demonstrated the NAACP’s renewed focus on healthy living and childhood obesity. Benjamin danced the “Cupid Shuffle” with students [...]
Special to NNPA from Afro-American Newspaper The nation’s highest court could decide whether to review President Barack Obama’s health care reform law as soon as Nov. 10, Politico reports. Five opponents of the law and the Obama administration have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the law’s requirement for all Americans to buy [...]
By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Washington, D. C., 30 October 11: President Barack Obama is banking on a new report detailing the income disparity in the country as further evidence of the need for his $447 billion jobs bill. A report this past week by the Congressional Budget Office found that average after-tax income for [...]
On October 27, 2011 Judge Paul Friedman in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. approved the settlement of the Pigford II lawsuit, filed by black farmers against the USDA for discrimination in lending (otherwise known as “In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation”). Judge Friedman states in his order, that this settlement applies to all [...]
According to statewide leaders, things are getting worse in Alabama. It seems like our state is trying to go back to the past that we struggled so hard to leave behind. Just look around you and you will see that the past is closing in on us again: diminished voting rights – racial attacks – [...]
On 2010, the Greene County High School Tigers’ basketball team won the state championship in 3A Basketball, beating Madison Academy 61-44. This was the second state championship that a Greene County High School basketball team had won in six years. The Tigers won the 4A championship in 2005. But the 2010 team has yet [...]
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