Sunday, September 19, 2010
Ronald Walters, Rest In Peace
Ronald Walters, longtime professor at Howard University and the University of Marlyland, has passed away.
Congratulations YES Prep
U.S. News & World Report notes that in the past ten years 100 percent of the graduates of YES Prep, a Houston charter school, have been accepted to four-year colleges.
Who Is "We"?
In a recent column Leonard Pitts noted Glenn Beck's statement that "this is a moment that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. . . . We will take that movement, because we were the people that did it in the first place!" Pitts continued, "Beck was part of the 'we' who founded the civil rights movement!? No. Here's who 'we' is.""
"'We' is Emmett Till, tied to a cotton gin fan in the murky waters of the Tallahatchie River. 'We' is Rosa Parks telling the bus driver no. 'We' is Dianne Nash on a sleepless night waiting for missing Freedom Riders to check in. 'We' is Charles Sherrod, husband of Shirley, gingerly testing desegregation compliance in an Albany, Ga., bus station. 'We' is a sharecropper making his X on a form held by a white college student from the North. 'We' is celebrities like Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando and Pernell Roberts of Bonanza, lending their names, their wealth and their labor to the cause of freedom."
"'We' is Emmett Till, tied to a cotton gin fan in the murky waters of the Tallahatchie River. 'We' is Rosa Parks telling the bus driver no. 'We' is Dianne Nash on a sleepless night waiting for missing Freedom Riders to check in. 'We' is Charles Sherrod, husband of Shirley, gingerly testing desegregation compliance in an Albany, Ga., bus station. 'We' is a sharecropper making his X on a form held by a white college student from the North. 'We' is celebrities like Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando and Pernell Roberts of Bonanza, lending their names, their wealth and their labor to the cause of freedom."
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
George Vashon
George Vashon applied for admission to practice law in Pennsylvania in 1847. His appication was denied because Mr. Vashon was black. In May 2010 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court posthumously admitted Mr. Vashom to the state bar.
Black Male Unemployment
The St. Louis American reports that black workers' unemployment rate is 17.3 percent, approximately twice the 8.9 percent rate for white men.
Anthology: Black Voices From the Pulpit
This Wall Street Journal article discusses the anthology "Preaching With Sacred Fire" and the African-American sermonic tradition.
Mexican Victims, Black Attackers
Beginning in April of this year, ten Mexicans have been attacked by blacks in suspected hate crimes in Staten Island, New York.
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