2015/5/18-The suicide rate among black children has nearly doubled since the early 1990s, while the rate for white children has declined, a new study has found, an unusual pattern that seemed to suggest something troubling was happening among some of the …..
2015/05/17 – Survivors and witnesses of a deadly protest 45 years ago gathered Friday for reflections and a wreath-laying ceremony outside Jackson State University’s Alexander Hall. Two were killed and 12 were injured by gunfire. Many others were trampled and maimed …..
He was a sharecropper’s son who transformed the very foundations of modern popular music, with ‘Lucille’ and his influential, innovative sound. 2015/5/15-B.B. King was, in every sense, a giant figure in blues, intimately connected with the origins of the form, …..
Why integrating America’s neighborhoods and cities is harder than we think. 2015/5/15-There’s no question that white Americans prefer white neighborhoods. As I noted in a Wednesday column, “20 percent of whites said their ideal neighborhood was all white … [a]nd only …..
As advocates and policymakers focus on changing the narrative for African American boys, their female counterparts become less of a priority. 2015/5/11-In a classroom at the University of Pennsylvania, more than a dozen black girls and women gather on a …..
