December 2012
December 3rd, 2012
Written by Jim Abrams - As... in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to make green cards accessible to foreign students graduating with advanced science and math degrees from U.S. universities, setting up what is expected to be a turbulent battle over immigration policy next year.
Even this limited step, strongly backed by the high-tech industry, is unlikely to go anywhere this session of Congress,...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by LaToya Council ... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
As a young Black woman, I have been afforded many opportunities in life that were not necessarily given to previous generations of women in my family. Some of these opportunities include: receiving a Bachelors degree from a prestigious college, studying abroad in different countries, learning and mastering a second language, and having the opportunity to attend graduate school. Each of these...
December 1st, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi historical marker has been placed at the old Neshoba County jail site in Philadelphia where three civil rights workers were held hours before they were ambushed and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in 1964.
The Neshoba Democrat reports that the Neshoba County Historical Commission sponsored the project and raised money for the marker.
Civil rights workers James...