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Black Football History
Gary N. Gray
In 1968 the last year of Reverend Doctor Martian Luther King Jr’s life not a
single African American walked the (NFL) National Football League sideline as a
coach or as a team general manager.
BBC Story That Riled Zimbabweans
Sifelani Tsiko
Twelve-year-old Beatrice returns from the fields with small animals she's caught
for dinner. Her mother, Elizabeth, prepares the meat and cooks it on a grill
made of three stones supporting a wood fire. It's just enough food, she says, to
feed her starving family of six.
Katrina: A Whole Lotta Water
Leroy Moore, Jr.
Hurricane Katrina has changed life as we know it for
everybody, but in a strange way it brought people together in a healing
environment. Emmitt Thrower and Tiara Mone't King share a lot in
common.
A
Truism That Applies To Bush: "If A
Kid Has A Gun, He will Use It."
Frank A. Jones
The truism, "If a kid has a gun he will use
it" applies to President Bush. The military of a nation is its gun and in the
hands of an immature, mean, and incompetent leader that gun will be used.
African Women Rise to
Positions of Influence
Sifelani Tsiko
The recent appointment of highly
respected Tanzanian foreign minister Asha-Rose Migiro to the No. 2 job at the
United Nations marks an important turning point in the growing number of African
women who are breaking into influential leadership positions nationally and
internationally.
New Years Thoughts from
Carolyn Stokes
Carolyn Ashe Stokes
As a former Senior Senator in the California Senior Legislature I observed
our government's attitudes and processes. Both ingrained
weaknesses and
strengths were observed. The one change that I was proud of was the Resolution I
wrote to allow seniors the right to pursue lifelong education in
our school systems.
African Union's Science &
Technology Summit
Sifelani Tsiko
The coming African Union summit of
Heads of States and Governments on science, technology and research scheduled to
take place in Addis Ababa this month offers a unique opportunity to focus on the
role of science and technology in providing solutions to a myriad of problems
facing the continent.
Braile Money For Visually Impaired
Gary
N. Gray
On Tuesday December 12, 2006, The United
States District Judge James Robertson ordered the Treasury Department to invent
new ways to help low vision disabled Americans and help visually impaired
Americans.
An Under-served Solution
Carolyn Stokes
This global transition we are undergoing collectively, means we are evolving from
our discriminatory past where self-proclaimed superiors ruled through war and
intimidation to something else.
Professor Adrien K Wing: Bessie Dutton
Murray Professor
Gibbs
Professor Wing earned her Master
of Arts degree in African studies from UCLA. While at Stanford Law School, she
served as an editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law, as an intern
with the United Nations Council on Namibia, and as Southern Africa Task Force
Director of the National Black Law Students Association.
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