The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans.
Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well:
My friend Alycia drove me through the lower 9th […]
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Elle, PhD is has ventured to answer Langston’s still prescient question, “What happens to a dream deferred?”
If you know about small communities in the South, you know that Jena is not an aberration of racial progress but rather a manifestation of festering tensions that have never gone away. What’s amazing about Elle’s blog post is […]
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired:
The Triumphs and Tragedies of Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer
A documentary by Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen
From Bakersfield.com:
Fruitvale Jr. High seventh-graders Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen recently won first place for the state of California in the Free Expression in a Free Society competition sponsored by […]
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites
August 24, 2006
COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. . . .
[Superintendent Kay] […]
Thursday, August 10, 2006
By Jan Hillegas
Appointed members of the State Records Committee (SRC) and the Local Government Records Committee (LGRC) regulate “retention periods” for Mississippi’s public records. Some agency records are “scheduled” for permanent preservation in agencies’ offices or the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Some are approved for “disposal” after specified time periods.
Pressures for […]
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“In the 1960s, my husband helped the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission de-fund the pioneer Head Start programs in our state,” said Courtney Tannehill, the widow of former Neshoba Democrat editor Jack Tannehill, “and he worked to promote the Commission’s segregationist agenda to Mississippi industrialists.”
“I am here today to acknowledge the truth about my husband’s participation in […]
by MarshaRose
July 4, 2006
The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the lyrics in 1814 after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. It became well known as a […]
Those were the first words from Scott B. Smith, Jr when he reached me on the phone earlier this afternoon.
He wanted to inform me and all who knew her that Linda Dehnad, his wife, died this morning of undetermined causes at age 69. Linda went to Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, AL last night because she […]
Hattiesburg, MS (BlackNews.com) - William Carey College, a predominantly white Southern Baptist private school, has recently wrongfully expelled four black students for using an electric generator during the Presidentially-declared disaster.
Immediately following Katrina, several students of the college were stranded due to road blockage, gas shortage, or distance from their homes. A student went into a […]
[If you are in the Boston area and are free tomorrow afternoon, come support this action. –BG]
Join us as we gather 400 supporters to represent the number of Massachusetts high school graduates every year who are denied access to higher education.
Let’s show the legislature that the everyone deserves the right to an education.
The event will […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
By Bill Quigley
They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited […]
This year’s annual convention for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is being held in Buffalo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Niagara Movement.
Professor Kim is there and she is live blogging with audio posts.
Particularly interesting was the interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson concerning her work on something she […]
Monday, September 26, 2005
SCHOOL OPENINGS [as of 9/26/05]
ORLEANS PARISH
Public: Some schools may reopen late this year or early next year
Teachers and other public school employees can pick up their checks at any Western Union office in the country
JEFFFERSON PARISH
Public: Oct. 3 target date for some schools
Ecole Classique to open Oct. 3. Call (225) 819-2846 to register
Concordia Lutheran in […]
Monday, September 12, 2005
There are two posts from the last week that I found particularly moving and important. Neither Jeanne D’Arc nor Kim Pearson are new to such writing. They are both writers with impressive range, but it just so happened that they each wrote compelling, personal posts about their own experiences on the same day. I think […]
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