Ask the Business Librarian 7-10

    Q:  I’m thinking about starting a business and I want to know what makes a successful entrepreneur? 

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    Part I – Weighing Justice in America

    The Case of Claude Mc Collum: Attorney Hugh B. Clarke,Jr.; Cheryl Bartz, who is on the Committee for Social Justice at Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing and Claude McCollum who was recently released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit.  TNCP Photo.

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    Life and Death: Chinese Earthquake Survivor Speaks

     Li Pei Han (Jade)  a 20-year old college student visited here last summer with the Visiting International Professional Program.  She gives us insight to her experience writing in English as her second language. 
    Courtesy  Photo.

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    Father’s Day is June 15, 2008

     

     

     

    The idea that there’s one definition of family is changing. Families are becoming more diverse. There are single career as well as dual career families, two parent as well as single parent families, "intact" as well as blended families, married as well as unmarried cohabiting parents, heterosexual as well as same sex parents, single race as well as interracial families, two- as well as three-generational families.

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    News Briefs 7-9

    The NAACP National Board of Directors has announced the selection of Benjamin T. Jealous as National President & CEO. He is the 17th person chosen to lead the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization in its 99-year history. Benjamin Todd Jealous served as President of the Rosenberg Foundation, a private independent institution that supports advocacy efforts to make significant improvements in the lives of California’s working families and recent immigrants.

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    Excuse me, are you Listening? 7-9

    If You Aren’t, the Prison Population Is…

     

    During a speaking engagement at Mid Michigan Leadership Academy,  a student looks over a portrait of Rina Risper.  It was painted by David Jones who is incarcerated in a Michigan prison. 
    Photo by Yohnny Cardena-Abad, 8th Grade, Mid Michigann Leadership Academy

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    As I See It? 7-9

     

     

     

    An Open Letter to the Right Wing Pundits:
    The Hypocrisy of the Right on Wright

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      Plain Talk 7-9

      Are you worried yet?  I don’t know what you’re seeing when you look out into the world but I’m seeing big time trouble coming.

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