In Mississippi, ‘ Extreme Discipline ’ Targets Minority US School Kids: Report Civil rights groups in the United States released a report Thursday claiming that harsh punishments at schools across Mississippi have led to a disproportionate number of minority students being suspended, expelled... Read more...

Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the fisrt African-Ame... Read more...

The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice. Director: Rob Reiner Writer: Lewis Colick Stars: Alec Baldwin, James Woods and Whoopi Goldberg Read more...

Did you ever wonder who invented the Cell Phone? Ok, let's say that you are on a TV game show and have to answer this question to win $10M. The question is, who invented the cellular phone? In all probability most of us could not Answer this question. Those of you who know are in a very small minor... Read more...

TRIBUTE TO THE MILLION FATHER MARCH By Useni Eugene Perkins We march, we march, we march As men of faith, courage and resolve As men of different hues, religions and creeds To be the fathers we should be We are Fathers, Grand Fathers, Foster Fathers, Step Fathers, God Fathers and Com... Read more...

On January 13, 2010 Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, stated that Haiti “swore a pact to the devil.” This was one day after a 7.0 earthquake rocked the island nation resulting in massive loss of life. The “pact” Robertson so confidently ment... Read more...

As the swollen Mississippi River rolls south, many residents living along the "Big Muddy" are scrambling to get out of its path. If the Army Corps of Engineers opens up the Morganza spillway in an attempt to save New Orleans and Baton Rouge, it will flood a 3 million acre flood plain and displace ... Read more...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the first time is breaking down the species of oiled birds collected - alive and dead - in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 BP well blowout. As of Tuesday, 4,676 birds had been collected; 3,634 of those were dead. Of the dead birds, 1,226 were visibly... Read more...