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Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) rose to the national stage from Houston’s largely African-American Fifth Ward, becoming a public defender of the U.S. Constitution and a leading presence in Democratic Party politics for two decades. She was the first black woman elected to the Texas state senate and the first black Texan in Congress. As […]
More to Think About: Diabetes You think you know About Type 2 Diabetes? Take a quick quiz here. WHAT YOU CAN DRINK, BESIDES WATER, WHEN YOU HAVE DIABETES No doubt: Water is the perfect drink. It doesn’t have calories, sugar, or carbs, and it’s as close as a tap. If you’re after something tastier, though, you’ve […]
More To Think About: Criminal Justice The Connecticut experiment By: MAURICE CHAMMAH | THE MARSHALL PROJECT | Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire had tried to rob a small […]
Ok. You Gained Weight. These 5 Tips Will Get You Back on Track BY KIRBY BUMPUS, MPH MARCH 25, 2017 Whether you are starting your weight loss journey, finding yourself in the middle of the struggle or working on maintenance, here are tips to keep you on track: 1. START NOW AND START SMALL 2. […]
The Women’s Business Development Council provides loans up to $10,000 to help start or grow a business. It can be used for such things as working capital, new hires, furniture, inventory, supplies, equipment and/or machinery. The Women’s Business Development Capital micro-loan fund offers flexible guidelines to help businesses build better credit and improve their attractiveness […]
Gun violence affecting my students deserves national attention, too By Chris Fisk Updated 8:51 AM ET, Sat April 14, 2018 Chris Fisk is a teacher at Miami Northwestern Senior High School. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. (CNN)“Raise your hand if you or someone you know has been the victim of gun violence.” […]
Lead crisis: Flint braces as Michigan shuts down free bottled water sites “My water stinks. It still burns to take a shower. There’s no way they can say it’s safe.” by Erik Ortiz / Apr.09.2018 / 11:44 AM ET / Updated Apr.09.2018 / 2:39 PM ET Shawn Jones, 42, right, and Tony Price, 54, distribute bottled water at a point […]
What Is Economic Justice? Read what major theologians and Bible scholars say about economic justice Unemployment, poverty wages, unsafe jobs, globalization, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, taxes (who pays and how much), inadequate public schools, lack of health care, the right to form a union (and why someone might want to), […]
The Complicated Pasts of 6 Trailblazing Women MARCH 27, 2018 By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Mother Teresa advocated reusing hypodermic needles for the poor in her care. Margaret Sanger promoted birth control as a way to keep ‘undesirable’ minorities from procreating. To understand history’s lionized women, we need more nuanced portraits. Read More
More to Think About: Black Infant Mortality Read the entire article here. By Linda Villarosa Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from “The Hidden Toll,” the cover story in the NY Times Sunday magazine. Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — 11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with […]
Jesse Jackson on M.L.K.: One Bullet Couldn’t Kill the Movement MARCH 30, 2018 By Yohuru Williams Rev. Jackson, who was part of King’s inner circle in 1968—and witnessed his assassination—weighs in on that shocking moment, its turbulent aftermath and carrying forth the dream. Read More
Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing statue of Confederate and KKK leader By Alex Horton A few years before Nathan Bedford Forrest became the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and decades before a statue of him was dedicated in Memphis, the Confederate general overlooked Fort Pillow and planned how he would destroy the beacon for escaped slaves. […]
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of Millennials Don’t Know it Was a Nazi Death Camp, Survey Reports Mark A. Kellner | Religion News Service | Friday, April 13, 2018 Most American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz was, a survey finds. Despite the slaughter of nearly a million Jews — as well as hundreds of thousands of Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners […]
Texas Newspaper Omits Same-Sex Spouse’s Name in Obituary The newspaper publisher removed the husband’s name because he believed it was ‘contrary to God’s word.’ By Alexa Lardieri, Staff Writer March 16, 2018, at 3:26 p.m. A SAME-SEX COUPLE IN Dallas is accusing a newspaper of discrimination after the paper omitted one of their names in a family member’s […]