For this generation of students to remain competitive with their international peers as adults, they need to start spending more time in school. This week President Obama proposed that American school children extend their time in class, either by lengthening the school day, or spending less tim... Read more...
More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren't completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois' 2011 high school graduating class - public and private - met college readine... Read more...
Photos courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives, Baltimore, Md. - The St. Frances Home for Girls in Normandy, Mo., near St. Louis, was founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African-American order providing black girls with elementary education and domestic training. Long before the... Read more...
We can only hope that the recent surge in American communities voting to end water fluoridation is an omen to the eventual end of this abominable and toxic practice across the entire country. A recent report in the The Mercuryexplains that officials in Pottstown, Penn., a northwest exurb of Philadel... Read more...
Cable News Network (CNN) and National Public Radio (NPR) have acknowledged that eight members of the US Army 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group served as interns in their news divisions and other areas during the Kosovo war. PSYOPS is a highly specialized unit of the military whose person... Read more...
Several months ago I reported on the firing of a trio of high-ranking prison officials in connection with a series of sexual assaults in a Southwestern Pennsylvania prison. Few news agencies took up the story especially national ones. This was astounding given the nature of the charges: p... Read more...
Find out more: http://mycuentame.org/carwash Discuss: http://facebook.com/cuentame We need your help in exposing this travesty. Have you seen similar conditions at your local carwash? Post it today @ http://mycuentame.org/carwash Carwash workers across the country are routinely abused, in... Read more...
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit. Director: Ronny Yu Writer: Stel Pavlou Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle and Emily Mortimer Read more...
Who want to rule the world with me? I ask this question because there hasn’t been a powerful African-American leader that captivates audiences since Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm-X, Huey Newton and the list goes on. I know there are people out there thinking, “What about Barack Obama or... Read more...