Posts tagged with white

The Stars of Earth and The Glitters and Gold That Love Them: Short Story By: Eric Blair

1 comment, 21/11/2011, by Mr. Blair in Freeing Slaves, General, Miscellaneous, Short Story, Song & Dance: Year One

…And now we enter the dressing room of Christopher James (C.J.) as he prepares for his weekly variety show. C.J. is a good looking American-African male who has brown, caramel skin, brown eyes like autumn leaves, dark black hair like onyx, with an innocent baby face. C.J. is sitting at his vanity... Read more...

Martin Luther King Jr’s Last Speech – I’ve Been To The Mountaintop (Video)

1 comment, 11/11/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in apple, mac, Movies, Video

delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good ... Read more...

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Fatherhood the ‘Courageous’ Way

0 comments, 10/11/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in mac, News

Absent fathers are prime contributors to the failure of the family. The new film 'Courageous' challenges men to step up and be the fathers intended. A disturbing trend has subtly crept into the American family, and its onslaught was so insidious that it went unnoticed for 40 years. It's called th... Read more...

Wealth in America: Whites-Minorities Gap Is Now A Chasm

0 comments, 04/11/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, program, World News

The housing crisis hit Hispanics and blacks much harder than it did whites! As Congress and the White House wrestle whether to raise taxes for the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis of Census data shows that the wealth gaps between whites and blacks and Hispanics widened dramatically during the... Read more...

Quiet Revolution: New Research Spotlights Role of Black Catholic Nuns in Desegregation

0 comments, 27/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News

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...

Teens Use Condoms More Often During First Sex

0 comments, 25/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health, News

Teenagers can, in fact, make some mature decisions when it comes to sex. The latest government data show that 8 of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, an increase of 9 percentage points since 2002. The findings, released yesterday, come from the National Survey of Family G... Read more...

Why African Americans Earn Far Less Than Other Americans

3 comments, 30/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News

By: Abdul-Kareem Johnson Statistics constantly point out that the black income median is so much below the white. Less attention is paid to how much wealth is owned by blacks as compared to how much whites own in the country. The reasons for the disparity, of course, are clear and need not be... Read more...

Think Outside the Bars: Why Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons

1 comment, 28/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, World News

011 ISSUE OF YES! MAGAZINE A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as she waits patiently for her turn to speak. Finally, the microphone is passed to the back of the room, and she leaps to her feet. With an air of despe... Read more...

Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites, Minorities

3 comments, 21/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, World News

009 in the United States, Black household median wealth was $5,677 while White households are worth 20 times more at $113,149 At the present rate of closure, average Black households will never, EVER catch up to White households in wealth! The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grow... Read more...