2015/05/19 – May 19, 1925: Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. In prison, he became a follower of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad but split with him prior to a 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, where Malcolm X …..
2015/5/20-The greatest barriers to school success for K-12 students have little to do with anything that goes on in the classroom, according to the nation’s top teachers: It is family stress, followed by poverty, and learning and psychological problems. Those …..
2015/5/20-On the morning of April 12, Michelle Gross woke up to screaming. Gross, known as “mom,” in West Baltimore’s Gilmor Homes area, left her home to find Freddie Gray — someone she called “son” — being dragged into a police van. Note: …..
2015/5/18-It has been getting easier by the day for politicians to talk about fixing the nation’s broken criminal justice system. But when states in the Deep South, which have long had some of the country’s harshest penal systems, make significant …..
2015/05/19 – Hinds County owes $9.4 million on its Joint State-County Work Center, leaving county officials to discuss legal action against the MDOC over the agency’s plans to move state inmates from the program. Hinds County owes $9.4 million on its …..