This column marks the first of a new weekly series on racial issues by Sam Fulwood III. | Try as he might, President Barack Obama can't elude the nation's complicated racial passions. For plainly obvious reasons, this president will be judged as none before him on how well he helps the nation grapple with the prickly passions that arise when Americans confront matters involving race.
PLENTY OF PEOPLE messed up in the firing of Shirley Sherrod. She is, of course, the African-American political appointee who was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department after an edite...
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PLENTY OF PEOPLE messed up in the firing of Shirley Sherrod. She is, of course, the African-American political appointee who was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department after an edite...
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 8:18am. | This is the seventh installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010. It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022.
Get the Flash Player to see the slideshow. | 91 - Day12.45%12.85% | 182 - Day12.57%13.41% | She said this has become necessary because many employers were not paying such benefits. | Mrs Gbedemah made the suggestion at a day's sensitization seminar organized by Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) for women in the Volta Region in Ho. | It was on the theme,
Ms Adwoa Sakyi, a steering committee member of Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), on Friday observed that only affirmative action could get more women into Ghana's parliament.She therefore reiterated the call on all political parties to adopt affirmative action to get more women into parliament.Ms Sakyi made the observation at a day's sensitization seminar organized by NETRIGHT for women in Ho.
Canada's Industry Minister Tony Clement arrives to testify before the Commons Industry committee on the long form census on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, July 27, 2010. | "Compromise" is the current battle cry of the census bureaucracy and its supporters. The champions (and dupes) of statism echo it. So do some pundits who are neither, but think the census battleground favours the opponents.
After much debate, Mayor and School Committee Chairman Joanne Twomey made an "executive decision" on Tuesday to remove School Committee member Peggy Bean from the School Committee's transportation committee.Bean missed three consecutive meetings during the current calendar year, which requires the dismissal of the offending committee member, according to the Biddeford School Department Policy.""
KARACHI: A traffic constable has been sentenced to death for raping a four-year-old girl Sana in July 2009. The other man accused in the case Noor Muhammad has been acquitted for want of evidence. | On Friday, the Sindh High Court handed down its judgment to constable Bashir Ahmed, under section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code along with a fine worth Rs100,000 to the victim's family. Additionally, on the count of sexual assault (PPC 376/34)
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva signed the "Statute of Racial Equality." But he was the first to recognize that in achieving this legislative landmark "we didn't get everything that we wanted" and "there is much yet to do."
Here's the full 43-minute video and an update on what people are saying. | "The guy who started the fire? As of today, he still has matches. Andrew Breitbart is the conservative blogger who posted the edited video of Sherrod. He put it on one of his five Web sites. Breitbart, a former Matt Drudge groupie, onetime E! Entertainment employee, and a guy who called Sen."
Jesse Jackson was arrested for the first time 50 years ago this month, leading a civil rights demonstration in his home town of Greenville, South Carolina. On July 16, 1960, the 18-year-old Jackson and a group of 7 other young people protested the segregated public library, by sitting in at the whites-only library and reading books. The "Greenville 8"
The schools will be locked, windows secured and surveillance cameras activated to guard for vandalism. The process starts today and runs throughout the weekend, Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb said. The schools, in some cases, have been educating students for generations. About 11,000 students attended the schools this year. | Bobb closed them in the face of a $363 million deficit and declining enrollment.
WASHINGTON D.C. HUD (LoanSafe.org) – We reviewed 20 Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans that Alacrity Lending Company (Alacrity) underwrote as an FHA direct endorsement lender. Our review objective was to determine whether Alacrity underwrote the 20 loans in accordance with FHA requirements. This review is part of Operation Watchdog, an Office of Inspector General (OIG)
Claiming to be victims of government apathy since decades, scores of members from Jat community gathered here on Wednesday to voice their demand for reservation in government jobs.
The Government of Canada is providing $300,000 over four years for a program that provides learning opportunities for participants from ethnic communities to increase their knowledge and understanding of Canada and help raise civic participation, Colin Carrie, Member of Parliament for Oshawa, announced today on behalf of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney.
The Government of Canada is providing $300,000 over four years for a program that provides learning opportunities for participants from ethnic communities to increase their knowledge and understanding of Canada and help raise civic participation, Colin Carrie, Member of Parliament for Oshawa, announced today on behalf of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney.
Llewellyn says the Apartheid era is long over, let's say goodbye to affirmative action and work as equals. | "We are making a different choice. More and more South Africans want our politics to be an open contest of ideas and values, rather than a closed circle of conflict between race groups. Very few complex plural societies have made this choice," says Zille in her weekly newsletter.She says race is a powerful mobiliser.
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For the first time in Venezuelan history, an indigenous newspaper won a National Journalism Award in 2010. On July 4, the Venezuelan Ministry of Communications awarded Wayuunaiki with a National Journalism Award for layout of its 10th anniversary issue dedicated to alternative communication with an indigenous essence.
Have you heard all the ruckus over the long-form census? It has been pretty hard not to as it has been in nearly every publication and evening news program since it was announced. For those who missed what is happening the Conservative government has decided to scrap the long-form census.
Virginia Democratic Senator James Webb has been a long time defender of Scots Irish values, indeed, the most prominent advocate for their importance in American historyHis book Born Fighting;