by Furious | Feb 24, 2013 | History, News
A 2011 study in Demography, “The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons” (PDF), uses Census data from 1940 to 2000, with additional data from the Census Bureau’s companion American Community Survey, to compare higher...
by Furious | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that...
by Furious | Feb 23, 2013 | News
SNITCH explores the consequences of Federal Mandatory Minimum drug laws and the use of confidential drug informants. Becoming one of the 2.2 million people behind bars is easier than you think. Go to www.TakePart.com/SNITCH to learn more and take action by signing the...
by Furious | Feb 22, 2013 | News
“Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts is returning back to work today, February 20, 2013. buy stromectol online https://vivawellness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/png/stromectol.html no prescription pharmacy After being diagnosed last year with...
by Furious | Feb 22, 2013 | Business, News
The Black Business Investment Fund of Central Florida reached a settlement with the Department of Economic Opportunity late last week, putting to rest months of legal haggling over the group’s certification. Last year, DEO rejected BBIF’s application for certification...
by Furious | Feb 21, 2013 | News
In a lawsuit, Bernard Anderson Bey (pictured) is demanding that his parents pay him the hefty sum of $200,000 because he felt unloved and abandoned by them, which allegedly caused him to become homeless and destitute, reports the New York Post. The 32-year-old claims...
by Furious | Feb 20, 2013 | News
The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job, thereby causing the breakup of families and instilling further poverty upon them. “Prison has become the new...
by Furious | Feb 20, 2013 | News
(RNS) Atlanta megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long is facing a suit from former parishioners who say he encouraged them to invest in a company that was operating an alleged Ponzi scheme. A dozen former members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga.,...
by Furious | Feb 19, 2013 | History
Malcolm X was fond of saying, “Our history did not begin in chains.” Yet every year that’s where Black History Month lesson plans in schools across America begin. They begin telling the story of our history — black history — in chains....
by Furious | Feb 19, 2013 | History, News
AFRICANGLOBE – On Monday, as the western part of the world was waking up, the news that Pope Benedict XVI was resigning from the papacy, sent shock waves around the world, but it also started the most intense speculation as to who would succeed him. It was the same...
