Ahead of Thursday’s tipoff of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, a study has found anew that the gap in the graduation rate between white and black players remains wide. The annual report, “Keeping Score When It Counts,” by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the Un... Read more...
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass On Saturday, February 18, 2012, t... Read more...
Can someone be trusted? And can an algorithm work it out? As more and more services focus on the arbitrage of consumer-to-consumer transactions and rentals, the problem of trusting a stranger becomes a significant drag on success.Airbnb, the rent-out-your-home service had a very bad and very public... Read more...
25% of Blacks Predicted to Lose their Homes to Foreclosure Foreclosure rates among African- American homeowners are pretty much the same across all income groups, unlike those for whites whose foreclosure ratesdecline as income rises, according to a study published in November by the Center for Re... Read more...
Lee Frost's grimy blaxploitation picture The Black Gestapo. Starring: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson. I admit, I am considerably new to the blaxploitation sub-genre. I think this is the second film I've seen within the sub-genre, the first being Russ Meyer's Black Snake (1973). Thus far, I'm enjoyin... Read more...
Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman. Director: Keith Beauchamp Stars: Mamie Till, Wheeler Parker and Simeon Wright Read more...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently released graduation rate data for all students and also for student athletes at its Division I institutions. The data shows that 43 percent of all black students who matriculated at these colleges and universities in the fall of 2004 earned th... Read more...
The number of high-school graduates who took the ACT and met all four of its college-readiness benchmarks has risen for the third year in a row, with the ACT also testing its largest class ever this year. Twenty-five percent of the class of 2011 met the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks in... Read more...
Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group. And school discipline records are t... Read more...