In what could be an ominous sign for the U.S. tech industry, American universities slipped lower in an international programming contest.
The University of Illinois tied for 17th place in the world finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, which concluded Thursday. That’s the lowest ranking for the top-performing U.S. school in [...]
This magazine brings back some memories.
Why did I watch this show religiously, I will never know (Land of the Lost)
Drug of choice back in the day. (Pixie Stix)
As a child, I always enjoyed watching this in my neighborhood after Mister Softee came by (and we wonder why our kids are so overweight today).
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This was sent to me by Yolanda Carden of FSBAssociates.com.
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Darfur
By Robert Fay (excerpted from Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. (Oxford University Press; April 2005)
Former Independent Sultanate in Western Sudan
In prehistoric times, the peoples of what is now Darfur [...]
Voicing concerns that outside groups may be specifically targeting black and other ethnic churches by triggering federal investigations, U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek today asked IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson to make public the number of predominantly black, Caucasian, Hispanic, and other ethnic churches that are presently the subject of U.S. Internal Revenue Service investigations [...]
Some Central High School students signed a petition Wednesday in defense of a teacher they say has been unfairly disciplined for “mimicking an African-American” at a student-faculty basketball game.
Several students, black and white, said Wednesday after class that Greg Dougherty, a white economics and social studies instructor at the school, should not be fired for [...]
Cynthia of the website Cynthia’s Interests just recently posted an excerpt of an article written by Steve Weissman (A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement).
Although he spends a great deal of time slamming Christianity as some sort of “fable or myth”, the one thing that he does not address is that when there [...]
Rwanda’s envoy to the United Nations-backed court trying suspects in the country’s 1994 genocide has called for the world body to prosecute French officials and soldiers allegedly complicit in the slaughter.
“I would like to take this opportunity to call on the United Nations and the French government to investigate and try these people,” Aloys Mutabingwa [...]
Television celebrity and businessman Byron Allen on Tuesday said his Entertainment Studios Corp. may bid $2.2 billion in cash to acquire struggling Paxson TV network and remake it for black audiences.
Allen, widely remembered as the star of 1980s TV show “Real People,” told Reuters he is working with investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston and [...]
Infighting among top Russian political leaders, rattled by popular uprisings in three ex-Soviet republics, may cause a rift that puts Russia at risk of breaking up, President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff warned in an interview published Monday.
Analysts said the rare public comments by Dmitry Medvedev, a powerful member of Putin’s inner circle, appeared to [...]
Once again, I find myself at a loss on current events in the black community. The following is just a sample of the most recent national headlines regarding blacks:
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New Report Details Inequality for Black Americans
… Witnesses describe the shooter as an African-American male in his 20s who left the scene in the back of a [...]
I found this site via The Black Conservative and it definitely gave me some chuckles. As usual, I will give you just an excerpt, but please visit the site to view the comic strip:
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Am I the only one who would rather be shot in the face than see another black-guy meets white-guy comedy? It [...]
“Dear Editor:
My children and my community have been victims of racial balancing. My children last year attended a school with 47% minority: 28% black, 19% Catawba Indian. It was one of the poorest schools in the district, yet it had some of the highest over-all math scores. This year, the black minority numbers [in the [...]
Some 300 students heading into one of the five high schools in the Fremont Union High School district were sent home early and for good Monday.
“We asked them to come to the office, we called their parents and told them they don’t go to school here anymore,” said Superintendent Steve Rowley.
The school district is enforcing [...]
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