WASHINGTON — An African-American high school teacher in an urban Washington D.C. neighborhood school blogs about his students in order to capture the experience and challenges he faces to enhance the educational experience and lives of his students.
CHICAGO– Retired Army major and school chairman Aaron Rucker is being honored with the Governor’s Award for excellence in education and his role in improving programs in a troubled school.
Two nights ago, President Barack Obama made an announcement from the East Room of the White House that was even more stunning than the release of his “long form” birth certificate earlier in the week: “Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted […]
NEW YORK – I spoke with actor Jeffrey Wright recently at the Black Writers Conference Symposium for playwright August Wilson. In our discussion he said that there was no Black cinema because African Americans do not have the power to tell our own stories. RELATED STORIES Jeffrey Wright Breaks Down His Roles In “Basquiat” And […]
On my 41st day of blessed living, I have only this to share, you are never too old to grow up. As long as you are walking the face of the earth, God has a plan for you. I know this to be true. Once I have reached my development of growth in an area, […]
BY: CARLITO RODRIGUEZ “They got him, yo. They got Bin Laden.” That’s how I heard. Unlike other hip-hop journo cum Twitter pundits whose daily grind requires them to keep eyes glued to the tube (“flatscreen” just doesn’t do it for me, sorry) while thumb-typing their way into relevance at 140 characters a minute, my May […]
Religion gives God a bad name. Unfortunately, all some crackpot usually has to do to get a following is cloak himself in one or more tenants of an existing religion and folks will follow him like he’s the New Prophet. And the problem is there are, quite simply, so many tenants. Like, let’s say Osama […]
While partisan bickering persists on Capitol Hill about budgets, spending and the deficit, people seem all too wiling to turn a blind eye to one of the main culprits behind America’s debt load – inefficient administration of government programs. Take the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP), for instance, a $2.5 billion loan program administered by USDA’s […]
Now that Bin Laden has been killed, there is still a major terrorist on the loose. A terrorist mastermind who is wanted in several countries for blowing up a plane, bombing tourist locations and trying to assassinate a prime minister. The terrorist mastermind is Luis Posada Carrilles, a Cuban born former aide to the dictator […]
After the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of U.S. soldiers, it got us thinking of who are the worst terrorists of all-time. Below is a list we came up with. Let us know if you think we forgot anybody on it. 10. The death toll was 800,000 in what many call Suharto’s […]
During in the 1970s, when the Russia was the biggest threat to America and radical Islam was not as a concern of the USA’s, the USA began funding and training Islamic militants to fight our Russian enemies in Afghanistan. These militants, known as the mujahideen would rebel the Russians out of Afghanistan and later become […]
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