JOHN MCCAIN TAKES CASE TO ESSENCE.COM
Presumptive Republican nominee talks about views on Obama and plans for black America
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.
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.
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.
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
As I See It? 7-9
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An Open Letter to the Right Wing Pundits:
The Hypocrisy of the Right on Wright
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.
Do you have an opinion? 7-9
A Different Drug Problem……
(Editor’s note – this has been circulated on the internet and I thought I would share it with my readers.)
Blackflix Movie News Presents: The Green Mile
Studio: Castle Rock/Warner
Plot: Frank Darabont’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a gentle giant working miracles on death row — and a mouse.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, James Cromwell, Bonnie Hunt.
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Book Reveiw 7-9
Playing for Pizza
By John Grisham
ISBN: 978-0-385-52500-8
Publisher: Doubleday
Available: Bookstores everywhere