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(I just updated this piece with a point that I forgot to mention. You will find the update at the end of this posting) The city of Los Angeles has its first Hispanic mayor in over 100 years. This may be a victory for diversity in government, but there is yet another milestone that has been delayed for numbers of years for this city--literacy amongst its workforce. Living here in a Los ...More

Savannah State University senior Sean Ingram is looking forward to using his recently honored diplomatic skills in Rome, Italy, and in New York this year. A political science major, Ingram received the Diplomacy Award at the Harvard World Model United Nations convention in Edinburgh, Scotland. He, along with nine others from the Georgia school, participated with some 1,200 students from 50 countries. Morehouse College was the only other historically black college ...More

Written by Randye L. Jones for www.afrovoices.com >excerpted< Tenor and composer Roland Hayes was born in Curryville, Georgia, on June 3, 1887. His parents, William and Fanny Hayes, were ex-slaves who worked as tenant farmers to raise their seven children. When William Hayes died from a work-related injury in 1898, Fanny--who Roland called Angel Mo'--moved her family to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Because he had to help support his family, young Hayes was only ...More

Atlanta has the distinction of having the costliest commute in the US. A family with two commuters here can expect to pay more than $4,500 at the gas pump this year, according to an Oregon demographic research firm that studied gas prices and commuting patterns. The study was conducted in late April when gas prices averaged about $2.20 a gallon in Atlanta. Although prices have dropped slightly since then, Atlanta still holds ...More