Posts Tagged ‘Neighborhood’
Defying Ft. Defiance: My Mother and I take on the Civil War
By: Yvonne Kendall Yvonne Kendall earned her doctorate at Stanford University. She currently serves time as an associate professor at a state university in Texas. Preface: Ft. Defiance is a historical monument in Clarksville Tennessee, where my parents [Read More]
Osama Bin Laden killed after firefight with Navy Seals in Abbottabad Pakistan
Osama Bin Laden killed after firefight with Navy Seals in Abbottabad Pakistan – Justice is served Osama Bin Laden killed after firefight with Navy Seal in Abbottabad Pakistan - Justice is served Speaking tonight from the White House, President Barack Obama said [Read More]
Tools for Growth in Our Black Communities
By: Frank T. Scruggs Although Community can mean a specific country, neighborhood, town or city for clarity's sake, use of the term Black Community in this article means the psycho-cultural or spiritual collective of African people throughout world. The issues which [Read More]
Chicago Community Trust offers grants to bloggers in Bronzeville or Austin
Community Media Workshop and the Chicago Reporter will be reaching out to neighborhood bloggers and community groups on the South and West Sides to take up local reporting projects this year, backed by grants from a new Chicago Community Trust initiative. The Local [Read More]
Illinois Governor Quinn sign law creates violence prevention hotline
Illinois' Governor Pat Quinn sign legislation to create a violence prevention hotline for students at Chicago Public Schools. On August 9, 2010, Illinois' Governor Pat Quinn sign legislation to create a violence prevention hotline for students at Chicago Public [Read More]
The Code of the Street and African-American Adolescent Violence
Dr. Elijah Anderson The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a research and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a report reaffirming the “Code of the Street” theory of urban violence developed by Yale professor Dr. Elijah Anderson. [Read More]
Etta James – At last Beyonce gonna get her ass whipped
According to an audio posted on TMZ.com, legendary singer Etta James, 71-year-old, who is famous for the song “At Last,” told an audience in Canada last week, “You guys know your president, right?” “You know the one with big ears? Yeah, wait a [Read More]
