From AJC.com (Atlanta, GA) “Rather than send back more than $30 million in unspent federal aid, Atlanta officials have pushed through more than 50 last-minute deals with service agencies who hope to spend like crazy before the program expires Dec. 31.” [...] “The nonprofit groups that provide services for years have struggled to spend their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is what I wrote back in June of this year~ “I have to admit that oftentimes I have mixed emotions anytime I hear about a school that has been doing poorly for years suddenly able to significantly able to raise test scores without making any major changes to the preexisting failing system. Do I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In this episode of Blackinformant.com Podcast, I interview funnyman, actor, and now author David Alan Grier. You may know him from the 90′s show “In Living Color”, but he has done so much in his career. Now he his adding the title of “author” to his list of accomplishments. We spent time talking about his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While doing some research for another post, I came across this great find this morning. The Color of Money It is the entire 1989 Pulitzer Prize investigative series on how banks in Atlanta were called out by the Black community for “redlining” and how community activists, Black preachers, residents, local media, etc. pressured these banks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in the day (1960)~ Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government (a smaller version of the White Citizens’ Council) “At the same meeting, according to the article, District Attorney David P. Murray called on the audience to “help maintain our Southern way of life” and added, “Let’s fight for it to the bitter end.” According to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“An Orlando bank called Urban Trust Bank and owned these past three years by Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder and billionaire Robert Johnson is coming to the Tampa Bay area. The bank, which already operates branches in Walmart stores, is buying seven of the giant chain’s in-store bank branches from Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks. They include […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Morehouse alum need to be all on this. Student who shot classmate to graduate, no jail time (CNN) I’m willing to bet that there is more to this story that we are not hearing.
Oprah makes big donation to Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy ATLANTA — (AP) A letter from Oprah Winfrey last week seemed like the world’s best Christmas present — until teacher Ron Clark noticed an extra piece of paper flutter out of the envelope. That’s when the Atlanta educator saw the $365,000 check for the innovative private […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So Why Then is The Unemployment Rate So High In Georgia?
by Duane on December 1st, 2009 at 9:21 amThe New York Times, along with other publications have recently been talking up the latest study that suggests that racial bias is playing a major role in high Black unemployment. Here is a clip from the NY Times article. Similarly, Barry Jabbar Sykes, 37, who has a degree in mathematics from Morehouse College, a historically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…