Archive for ‘April 3rd, 2007’

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Apr03

Question for today: Are Black teachers a necessary requirement for student success?

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 10:20 am
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This article to me represents an issue that I have seen brewing for quite sometime now.
Tensions arise at Davis High after group suspension
Local activists point to a lack of African American teachers at school as indication of racism
By: Timothy Jue
(californiaaggie.com) A contentious meeting that resulted in the suspension of Davis Senior High School’s Black Student [...]

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Apr03

Stop leaving control of your assets to the government. Get a will!

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 9:46 am
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NEW YORK, April 3 /PRNewswire/ — You can’t take it with you, according to the adage, but many Americans seem to be planning to do just that. That’s because over half (55 percent) of all adult Americans do not have a will, a new survey shows, a percent that has remained virtually unchanged over the [...]

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Apr03

Question from one of my young readers

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 2:11 am
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I have noticed for sometime now that a portion of the traffic to this site comes from middle and high schools (you can tell this by the k12 domain). From time to time they leave very interesting comments. Here is a young sistah who e-mailed me with a question that I thought would be good [...]

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Apr03

Coming up: BlackInformant.com book review–”From The Heart: Seven Rules To Live By”–Robin Roberts

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 1:59 am
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I was recently contacted by book publisher Hyperion Books to request a book review of Robin Robert’s book “From The Heart: Seven Rules To Live By”. In case you may not know who Ms. Roberts is, she currently is a co-anchor of ABC’s Good America. Here is a quick excerpt of her bio:
In May 2005, [...]

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Apr03

Coming up: BlackInformant.com interview with Christopher Cruise

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 am
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Not too long ago on this site I referenced an article that appeared on bankrate.com where Christopher Cruise (Senior National Mortgage Trainer) was interviewed. Well somehow he discovered the post and contacted me via e-mail to thank me. We talked yesterday by phone and briefly talked about the current state of the mortgage industry and [...]

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Apr03

Discrimination in “Chocolate” city

by Duane on April 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 am
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Orleans DA is contesting bias verdict
Jordan’s firings of white workers not based on race, judges told
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
By Gwen Filosa
(nola.com) Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan appeared in a federal appeals court Monday, fighting to overturn the 2005 jury verdict that he violated labor discrimination laws by firing dozens of white employees after taking [...]

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