Posted by Duane On December - 5 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
This is another one of those issues that proven to be an easy political ping pong ball with no real AND LASTING solutions. I am at a point right now where every time I hear a politician exclaim that he/she is going to end homelessness, I just want to gag. Why? Because just about every honest person knows that politics in of itself is not a proven vehicle to take ...More
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Posted by Duane On December - 5 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
"Aware of the desire of black Californians for education, Cassey founded the Phoenixonian Institute in San Jose in 1861 (also known as St. Philip’s Mission School for Negroes). At a time when no other California high school, public or private, was open to African American students, and few secondary schools were established to train white students, the Phoenixonian Institute stood as a symbol of the quest by African Americans for ...More
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Posted by Duane On December - 5 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
(inmotionaame.org) The significant growth of the Caribbean community in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century is easily explained by the increasing economic hardship and disenchantment in the British West Indies and the simultaneous expansion of the U.S. economy with its relatively high wages and growing employment opportunities. The British Caribbean experienced a catastrophic decline in its sugar industry. The British colonies found themselves unable to compete against ...More
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