"I€™m very excited to hear from this group of women and know more about how events unfolded." | "I was here then, too €” I remember this vividly, along with the many other things that were going on €” fights for civil rights, women€™s rights, the anti-war movement. It was an important time." | "Because I€™m a good feminist."
The department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint it received in August that Harvard rejected an Asian-American candidate for the current freshman class based on race or national origin, a department spokesman said.
I'd like to meet Margie Nichols, civil rights investigator for the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights, who said a companion animal "is no different than a walker or a wheelchair" ("Service animals protected," Jan. 27). I wonder if she's ever had to clean an apartment after this type of fearsome "equipment" and its owner have moved out.
Under the agreement, Steele and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development will get 80% of the net proceeds from the sale of Parks' possessions, as well as the royalties from licensing her name, image and likeness. The nieces and nephews are to get 20%.
The bowls will be at the Hattiesburg library, 329 Hardy St. | The purpose of the bowl is to promote a greater awareness and knowledge of black history and culture. It is an academic competition open to youth in grades 5 to 12. | The public is invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served. | For details, visit www.thetasigmaomega.org. | See our paid archives for news older than a week.
A group of about 70 Occupy demonstrators began marching around 9 p.m. from City Hall down Broadway en route to police headquarters, where they planned to rally. | But a line of officers blocked their path early, sending the protesters veering from their course. They began a winding journey through city streets, walking about five miles through Chinatown, again past City Hall, into the uptown district and along so-call "auto row"
In recognition of Black History Month, the San Bernardino Culture Foundation presented the city's annual Black History Parade downtown on Saturday. | Festivities kicked off with vendors and entertainment at Court Street Square before schools, community organizations, city officials and other participants paraded down E Street in front of hundreds of parade-goers. | The celebration marked the foundation's 43rd annual Black History Parade.
The Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan will honor four individuals next month during its 33rd annual Salute to Distinguished Warriors dinner. | Established in 1916, the local Urban League affiliate has expanded its efforts to assist more than 70,000 youths, adults and families throughout southeast Michigan each year.
VOLUNTEERING | METRO DETROIT: Reading Works, a new nonprofit organization, needs funding and volunteers to help boost adult literacy. To donate or volunteer to become a reading tutor at one of nine agencies affiliated with Reading Works, go to www.readingworksdetroit.org or call 313-222-6515. | FUND-RAISER | BOOK DISCUSSION | SOUTHFIELD: The Creecy Book Discussion Group will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss "
About 30 people gathered Saturday afternoon in support of Albert Flowers, who was involved in an altercation with a police officer in October. | Some were concerned about what they described as the brutality inflicted on Flowers by Melbourne police officer Derek Middendorf. | Flowers, 66, was arrested Oct. 7 after officers were called to investigate reports of a disturbance involving a man with a knife.
The Urban League of the Upstate and the faith community have designated Feb. 26 as Urban League Sunday in an effort to show that the two entities are forging a closer partnership, officials said. | The Urban League is observing its 40th year of service in the Upstate.
Evansville Courier & Press and Evansville Courier & Press: WNIN Gala It was a week for crowds at Evansville Country Club and among the events was the WNIN Gala. Featuring American Icon Carl Kasell, the evening was a sellout and Kasell held his audience spellbound. Among the crowd were Lynne Miller-Pease (from left), Scott Wylie, Carl Kasell, Barbara Dial and David Dial.
It€™s been more than a year since Sarah Louise Hinton-Howard passed away, but her son Jerry says he€™s just now really coming to terms with his mother€™s death.
The Commercial Appeal and Memphis Commercial Appeal: Dr. Wanda Rushing shows students an original "I AM A MAN" poster used during the 1968 sanitation workers strike. | Students at St. George's take part in activities to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The lessons covered topics dealing with race, gender, historical, socioeconomic and current issues. | In honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, St.
To help celebrate Black History Month and call attention to the achievements and contributions of African-Americans past and present, several Blu-rays and DVDs have been released.
For this group — some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history — “African-American” is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late 1980s. Instead, it’s a misleading connection to a distant culture. | What are you? Where are you from? And how do you fit into this country?
If you're visiting beautiful St. Louis, Mo., anytime before the end of March, be sure to catch the exhibit "And Freedom for All: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" at the Griot Museum of Black History and Culture. | Through Feb. 27, visitors and residents in Detroit can experience "We Don't Want Them: A History of Detroit's Housing Segregation," a special exhibit at the Charles H.
Last week saw the bold opening of the new Harlem Theater Arts Festival at several theaters. Its inaugural season presented works by award-winning artists, including mZuri's one-woman show The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, on the civil rights leader; Lynn Nottage's one-act drama Poof!; and Karimah's powerful historical play, Accept/Except. Companies behind this inaugural season included the New Heritage Theatre Group, the National Black...
Even before the AP published the document, Kelly was under fire from Muslim groups who were angry that a controversial movie about Muslims, "The Third Jihad," was shown at NYPD training sessions. Kelly appears briefly in the movie. | About 150 protesters gathered near police headquarters Friday to challenge the NYPD's tactics. "Don't be afraid, stand for justice!"
Ramzy Baroud: Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work. Zoabi is very well-known civil rights leader with a long-standing reputation of courage and poise. How could anti- racist activists themselves become the subject of accusation by Halili and others like him?
"Correcting Civil Wrongs through Civil Rights in an Uncivil Time" is the topic for the Feb. 11 meeting of the Jamestown Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Gregory Rabb, will be the speaker. | Rabb is associate professor of political science and coordinator of global education at Jamestown Community College where he has been a member of the faculty since 1986.
On Aug. 26, 2011, Barnwell pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the civil rights of the residents and using fire in the commission of that offense. Barnwell also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson sentenced Barnwell to 20 years in prison for the three counts against him. | Murphy and Hammond have already pleaded guilty to civil rights violations for their roles in the crime.
New district maps for the Texas House and Senate, as well as the US House, are stalled in federal court after lawsuits by civil rights groups claimed the maps unfairly discriminated against minority voters. Interim maps drawn up by a court in San...
Learn about Chicago€™s civil rights history in honor of Black History Month with Roosevelt University Professor Erik Gellman from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Mon., Feb. 13 at the Bishop Quarter Room, located in the Warde Academic Center at Saint Xavier University's Chicago campus, 3700 W. 103rd St. This event is free and open to the public.
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Keywords: • National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. At 1:30 p.m., Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy will present a proclamation to representatives of the Western North Carolina AIDS Project, WNC Community Health Services and members of the community designating the day as Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in Asheville. At 6 p.m.
A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom. | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said Martin B. Springer, 49, of Alhambra was arrested four days after allegations surfaced against the first teacher, but there was no known connection between the two cases.
Hiring surges in January; jobless rate at 8.3 pct. | WASHINGTON (AP) - In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January - across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years. The job growth was the fastest since last March and April. Before that, the last month with stronger hiring, excluding months skewed by temporary...
Danatus King, president of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP, is no fan of Mayor Mitch Landrieu or of Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas. In November, King and other activists held a news conference outside Gallier Hall before Landrieu and Serpas were to announce new initiatives in the city's effort to bring down its sky-high murder rate.
"We're a part of that," Howell said. "This is a smaller population, but it certainly is important. Quite a bit of media attention, and other attention, has been focused on (Arab-Americans) in particular since 9/11. So we're trying to make sure people have an understanding of who these populations are and that people within these populations can explore their culture."
"The secret document stands in contrast to statements by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said the NYPD never considers religion in its policing. [Police Commissioner Raymond] Kelly has said police go only where investigative leads take them, but the document described no leads to justify expanded surveillance at Shiite mosques." | SHAHID BUTTAR, media at bordc.org, Buttar is executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
If George Romney were here today, Mitt Romney would probably be calling him a European socialist, while George Romney would probably be supporting the auto policies of Obama and possibly endorsing Obama for reelection.
As a Penn alumna, I was appalled to read today€™s Guest Column by Professor Ruben Gur. Not only is his belligerent rhetoric inappropriate and nonproductive, it does nothing to promote the civil discourse so desperately needed in Israel or Palestine today. As a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, his ignorance of the facts regarding the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the plight of the Palestinians...
Mayor Mike McGinn suggested citizens panel. | "Why suddenly is there a hurry?" | The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking community input on how to implement reforms in the Seattle Police Department. Comments can be made via email at community.seattle@usdoj.gov or by phone at 855-203-4479.
WTVR-LTV: In November 2010, the Tennessee newspaper The Commercial Appeal sued the FBI following a two-year investigation that found Withers secretly worked as a paid informant from at least 1968 to 1970 under a code number, ME 338-R. The paper reported that affiliations with the FBI could be traced back as early as 1950.
The arrest and the accumulated stories of Latinos led to a civil rights complaint filed by the Yale clinic in March 2009, with vivid tales of arbitrary police stops, beatings, stun-gun shots, racial slurs, illegal searches and seemingly capricious law...
The subject is as timely as it is fascinating, and the critically acclaimed film reminds us that as a nation, we still grapple with the subject of civil rights and military tribunals. Greenwich Library, Cole Auditorium, 101 West Putnam Avenue...
In the month of February, as African Americans begin to pay respect to the men and women who have made meaningful contributions to the struggle for social and economic equality in this country, they must not overlook the many supporters from the various racial groups that have done extraordinary acts to help facilitate the cause. Fast forwarding in history, President Lyndon Baines Johnson orchestrated passage of the Civil Rights Act...
GUELPH €” The civil rights movement has been fought and won; people of colour have the same rights and freedoms as anyone else in Canada and the United States; and there€™s even a black president in office in the U.S. | Davis became notorious in the 1970s through her association with the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers. She spent 18 months in jail and for a time was on the FBI€™s Ten Most Wanted List.
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Hazel Dorothy Scott is probably not a name that many will immediately recognize. | That, said Abraham Funchess, is why naming a hall after her in his church is so important. | Scott, a jazz and classical pianist and singer popular in the 1930s and '40s and who died in 1981, has no ties to Waterloo, or even to Iowa. | Instead, her name was chosen to adorn the Jubilee Fellowship Hall because of her accomplishments, said Funchess.
Keywords: €” A federal judge has recommended that the city of Birmingham, its police chief and four police supervisors be dismissed from an excessive force lawsuit by a man whose beating by authorities was caught on a dashboard video. | The Birmingham News ( ) reports U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong made the recommendation regarding the city and Police Chief A.C. Roper on Thursday.
Less than a day after Kauai Police Chief Darryl Perry was placed on leave -- Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho broke his silence about an internal investigation within the police department. | Mayor Carvalho read a four minute statement late Thursday and declined to take questions from reporters about a shake up of the department's top brass.
Black History Month began this year with sobering news €” Don Cornelius' tragic passing on Wednesday. His death came as a major surprise to most, but it was even more saddening to realize how great a loss had just afflicted the nation. To most, Cornelius was a writer, producer and host of "Soul Train" in the late 1960s...
John H. Johnson, the late founder of Ebony and Jet magazines has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service and will be featured on the agency's annual Black Heritage Forever Stamp. | After working at a Black-owned life insurance company, Johnson founded Johnson Publishing Co. with a $500 loan.
SON OF THE '60s Cornelius was born in 1936 in Chicago and as an adult, became a journalist who was active in the civil rights movement. For a time, he worked at local radio station WVON, and by the late 1960s he had dreamed up the idea of a TV show...
Based on modern doctrines, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life and it deals with all subjects like civil rights , laws of marriage and divorce, laws of inheritance, code of behavior etc. Chancellor ZA Nizami pointed out that book...
Don Cornelius, who died Wednesday at 75, was a civil rights pioneer disguised as a dance-music-show host. He used to sign off the “Soul Train” show he founded in Chicago by wishing his viewers “love, peace and soul,” and devoted every programming...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whom she marched with during the Civil Rights Movement, is another inspiration, she says. King taught her the importance of helping others without regard to skin color. Wilson also credits her great aunt, who always ensured...
He said Chicago was a crucible for civil rights and "Johnson carried us through that crucible so that we as a city, and we as a country, could be what we are today." Mayor Daley was more reflective in his remarks. He said Johnson was sought out...
The protest preceded the “New State Voting Laws II: Protecting the Right to Vote in the Sunshine State” hearing, convened by US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights...
Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist, eulogized James in a rousing speech, describing her remarkable rise from poverty and pain to become a woman whose music became an enduring anthem for weddings and commercials. Perhaps most famously, President...
Julea Ward€™s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University was recently reinstated by a federal court of appeals. | Tedesco said the court recognized Ward€™s rights were violated by the EMU. | In a statement written by EMU vice president for communications, Walter Kraft, the university stressed that the court reinstated the case without making a ruling on it.
By GWEN FLORIO of the Missoulian missoulian.com | Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:45 pm | Loading... | A University of Montana investigation into alleged sexual assaults unearthed so many cases that it should continue, possibly for as long as another year, according to a report into those allegations.
Aretha Franklin, an early "Soul Train" performer, called him "an American treasure." | "God bless him for the solid, good and wholesome foundation he provided for young adults worldwide," she said, "and the unity and brotherhood he single-handedly brought about with his most memorable creation of `Soul Train."' | Donald Cortez Cornelius was born Sept. 27, 1936, in Chicago. After high school, he served as a Marine in Korea.
Keywords: ' "Don Cornelius was a pioneer & a trailblazer. He was the first African-American to create, produce, host & more importantly OWN his own show." ' Earvin "Magic Johnson, via Twitter. | ' "God bless him for the solid good and wholesome foundation he provided for young adults worldwide, and the unity and brotherhood he singlehandedly brought about with his most memorable creation of 'Soul Train.'" ' Aretha Franklin.
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