STOCKTON, Calif. — A serious but overlooked problem caused by the budget deficits facing California is the increasing number of private contractors filling positions previously held by state employees. Scarcity of funding for state-funded institutions, such as our public schools and local government agencies, has led to private contractors filling vacant positions, generally until replacement […]
Chicago — The four candidates who showed up at the Chicago Mayoral Forum on Education at Walter Payton College Prep were the four who graduated from Chicago Public Schools: Miguel del Valley of Tuley High, Carol Moseley Braun of Parker High, Gery Chico of Kelly High, and James Meeks of Harper High. Danny Davis (Savage […]
New York– Diddy called into Sirius’ Shade 45 radio show on Tuesday (December 22) morning to talk up his latest effort, Last Train to Paris. But the rap mogul also commented on his onetime Bad Boy artist, G. Dep, who has made headlines in the last week.
New Orleans — With $1.8 billion of FEMA money in hand and construction costs at new lows, the comprehensive overhaul of New Orleans public school buildings is proceeding at an accelerated pace with groundbreakings at eight elementary schools.
A newly formed coalition of parents, teachers and civil rights activists called the Coalition for Effective Newark Public Schools is undertaking its own survey. Teams of volunteers are visiting every school in the district, asking principals and assistant principals how quickly maintenance repairs are performed, whether students have enough textbooks and other supplies, whether teachers […]
WASHINGTON — After a filibuster and threats of obstruction by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would provide health care for first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer reached a deal with Republican senators to support the bill earlier in the afternoon.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A U.S. diplomatic cable leaked Wednesday says the mayor of Jamaica’s biggest city acknowledged forging an alliance of convenience with an alleged drug baron to reduce crime in a sprawling patchwork of gritty slums. The September 2009 cable says that Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie told a U.S. Embassy officer that his […]
NEW YORK — Two decades after integration of the U.S. military, race riots flared on Navy warships in the Vietnam era. Long after servicewomen were officially placed on an equal footing with men, sexual harassment is still pervasive.
When I was in high school, this Armenia kid named Nicky ran up on me one day and said, “Hey Byers! You know how you get five Black men to stop raping a white woman?” I shrugged. “Toss them a basketball!” he said. “That joke is dumb,” I said after a pause. “It should have […]
Next year, Georgia will become one of the first states in the country to offer electronic testing for the General Educational Development exam, also known as the GED.
When homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments, or attempting to modify their home loan, or even on occasion fully paid up but lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, they are in danger of having their home broken into and their possessions removed by the banks. A New York Times report details the occasional terrible mistakes […]
By Hakim Hasan When Ishmael Reed, professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, went shopping his book Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers to the American publishing establishment, he came away with one nagging question: Are Black writers with a strong left of center political bent an […]
