For years the Pinecrest Center was simply known as an alternative facility for the Aiken County School District. Now, it’s the Center for Innovative Learning (CIL) at Pinecrest and there’s a reason. Over the past two years, the entire program has been overhauled, looking at greatly expanded w... Read more...
After President Obama was re-elected, a small number of states drafted petitions requesting their release from the United States, signaling just how stupid some Americans are. The White House promises to respond to all secession petitions that illicit over 25,000 signatures. Whi... Read more...
Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was a educator, writer and activist. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 189... Read more...
It's a nationwide problem, the shortage of black male teachers. Only two-percent of the nation's nearly five million teachers are African American. Twenty-eight-year-old Craig King has taught third grade at Whittaker Elementary School for six years. His students say there's never a dull moment in M... Read more...
Joe Frazier, the hard-hitting boxing heavyweight who handed the legendary Muhammad Ali his first defeat, died Monday, shortly after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his family said in a statement. The former heavyweight champion, who was 67, became a legend in his own right and personified ... Read more...
Big Pooh - Dirty Pretty Things Sampler Big Pooh can hardly wait for November 1st to release his upcoming album, Dirty Pretty Things. Neither can his fans, so, in giving loyalists a chance to get an early glimpse at his sophomore solo effort, the North Carolina MC is releasing an official albu... 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...