Reforming Boston Schools, 1930-2006: Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation (Palgrave Studies in Urban Education)
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New Philippine Revolution (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The brutal way the police treated fellow Muslim brothers and sisters living around the mosque in Baclaran Paranaque showed really how Filipinos treat Maranaos, Maguindanaoans and Tausugs here in this country---as second or even third class citizens. I would not be surprised if this incident would spark a jihad. And jihad it will be. Long were the years the Muslims here suffered. Considered as the first...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Producer Patricia Aquino, Morgan Freeman, and writer/director Paul Saltzman. Photo by Jen Arron. Last Friday brought together Toronto filmmaker Paul Saltzman, producer Patricia Aquino, Academy Award–winning actor Morgan Freeman, and members of the city’s most well-to-do families at the Varsity Cinemas for a "VIP Screening" of Prom Night in Mississippi , Saltzman’s feature-length...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
At the Economic Policy Institute, Gregory D.Squires, Derek S. Hyra and Robert N.Renner write : While there has been widespread recognition that racial minorities are among the hardest hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, racial residential segregation has not been considered a factor behind the crisis in minority communities. Blame is being directed at ill-informed consumers, lax underwriting by loan...
NCAA Football FanHouse (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Clay Travis Filed under: Mississippi , SEC When Ole Miss hosts Tennessee Saturday, the school's band will not play "From Dixie WIth Love," a song that features an incongruous pairing of "Dixie" with the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Why? Because some students and alumni chant, "The South will rise again," at the end of the song. For Ole Miss' first-year...
Football news from a chick™ (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Dr. Dan Jones, dean of the University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi's first-year chancellor followed through on a promise Tuesday and asked the band to stop playing a pep song because some fans are chanting "the South will rise again" at the end of the medley. "Here at the University of Mississippi, there must be no doubt that this is a warm and welcoming place for all,"...
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Silky Soul Tribute by Mark Anthony Neal In a room filled with mixed-company, mention the group Frankie Beverly and Maze and watch hundreds of years of racial segregation reproduce itself right before your eyes. In a world where many whites are still coming to terms with the insular realities of black life and culture, Frankie Beverly and Maze may be one of the biggest secrets of all. Virtually unknown...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"As I began to subject the apartheid system to more careful scrutiny [during the 1960s, as an anti-apartheid activist], it seemed to me that it was a system that had more in common with a communist state than with a free capitalist society. Apartheid controlled every facet of black people’s lives from the cradle to the grave. Among other things, consistent with the policy of racial segregation,...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Ze German liberals have an idea. Not content leaving people defenceless by stripping them of gun ownership which an earlier story proved works in the hands of homeowners, more kool-aid drinking liberal numbnuts have followed up with another love-they-criminal suggestion. The reason for the high crime they say is because of the walls. Remove the physical barriers between you and the criminal savages...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- New study examines impact of segregation on the prevalence of high-cost loans in U.S. metro areas. Subprime loans disproportionately located in segregated areas.
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey,...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Steve Walt in Foreign Policy on America’s backing for racial segregation in Palestine: The two-state solution was on life-support when Obama took office, and at first it appeared he might make a serious effort to nurse it back to health and make it a reality. At least, that’s what he said he was going to do. [...]
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
• King's daughter elected as first female SCLC leader • Issue of gay rights may dominate agenda She is a firebrand baptist preacher at the forefront of American black politics, whether speaking at the Democratic National Convention, at which Barack Obama was nominated as presidential candidate, or as one of those chosen to eulogise Michael Jackson at the singer's star-studded memorial service....
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From the Seattle Times The Rev. Bernice King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organization co-founded by her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced her election as its eighth president Friday morning. Interim President Byron Clay called King and said she accepted the position. I find this disturbing. King has made a...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
USA: King Daughter To Run Civil Rights Group Well, yesterday's news report said that the results were getting announced next week but clearly not. The daughter of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been elected president of a civil rights group co-founded by her father. Bernice King will be the first woman to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which her father...
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