NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Morehouse College represents the “perfect storm” of homophobia —racial and class anxieties of “exceptional Negroes,” masculine gender trouble, class conflict and fundamentalist religious baggage [or as some might say, "heritage" or "tradition."] Homophobia at Morehouse is therefore instructive, dramatic and sad, but not rare in our world. Truth/Reconciliation:...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Georgia land conservation projects will receive $5.5 million from a massive federal funding bill. The Department of Interior Appropriations bill also provides $200,000 to Morehouse College to preserve the papers of Martin Luther King Jr. The bill contains $... Martin Luther King - Morehouse College - Georgia - United States - People and Society
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Psst! Morehouse men — pull your pants up! by Stephane Dunn I must admit, I had lofty expectations of Morehouse College when I began teaching here two years ago. After all, this was the house that such social and intellectual giants as Benjamin Davis and James Brawley built and that superstar students like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. solidified. The college’s mystique — as the only...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Filed under: Management , Bank of America (BAC) Bank of America ( BAC ) is in the midst of a frantic search for a CEO to succeed Ken Lewis, who is stepping down before the end of the year. In an article on Bank of America's murky succession plan, USA Today buries this newsworthy factoid seven paragraphs down. From the "You can't make this stuff up" department: BofA Chairman Walter Massey,...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
[Wynton Marsalis] Boosey & Hawkes Press Release November 10, 2009 “ Complete Work to Be Performed at Annual King Celebration at Morehouse College on January 14, 2010 Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will now premiere selected movements of Wynton Marsalis's new symphonic work, Blues Symphony , November 19-22 in Atlanta Symphony Hall. This programming change was made in order...
The HBCU Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A dozen students and a bus driver were treated for injuries after three buses carrying members of the Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas on Friday. Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler says none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. Sadler says four buses from the school in north Louisiana were near Fordyce, Ark., on Friday...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
State officials have opened an investigation into the company that owned the bus that rolled over Saturday with Morehouse College band students on board.
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com Legal news for Georgia automobile accident attorneys. A bus rollover injured dozens of Morehouse Colleges marching band members. Georgia automobile accident lawyers alert- A bus rollover injured dozens of Morehouse Colleges marching band members. Atlanta, GAA bus carrying 42 members of the Morehouse Colleges House of Funk Marching Band skidded off of I-75 and overturned...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
State officials say the bus that rolled over Saturday with Morehouse College band students on board may have been operated by an illegal bus carrier.
It's My Mind (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There are three races to watch tomorrow. Mainly two gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey in addition to a special election for a congressional seat in New York. That race in New York has generated some publicity this past weekend as the original GOP candidate, Dede Scozzafava, withdrew from the race and endorsed Bill Ownens, Democratic candidate in that race. Scozzafava has a lot of GOP...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A study published in Economics Letters questions the relationship between obesity and crime Fat people are more likely to become criminals, and their very fatness may help shape their criminality. That's the conclusion reached by Professor Gregory N Price in a study called Obesity and Crime: Is There a Relationship? published in the journal Economics Letters. Price, an economist at Morehouse College...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A Morehouse College student remained at Grady Memorial Hospital on Sunday night after being injured in a bus crash.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Morehouse College students are now praying for the recovery of an injured band member and giving thanks that no others were seriously hurt in Saturday's bus crash.
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money , News , The Economy , Education I've always had mixed feelings about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. I feel that he is better than the previous chairman, Alan Greenspan, but the Fed Chairmanship (like the presidency) is almost never given to the right man. Just the fact that it is almost always given to a man is problematic enough, and the truth is that only white...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Morehouse College will hold a 6 p.m. service today "focusing on gratitude" following Saturday's bus crash that injured several members of the marching band.
Videos