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Do pre-employment background checks amount to racial discrimination? Is it wrong for a company to use pre-employment criminal background checks to weed out applicants? In some cases, the practice c

WASHINGTON--The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely. In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president

By Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors January 3, 2011 Last spring began with no hint of any but the usual excitement of a new class. We were team-teaching a course on Richard Wright and Zora Nea

In the version of history being taught in some Virginia classrooms, New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (instead of as a Spanish colonial one). The Confederacy included 12 states (in

PHILADEPHIA--A discrimination lawsuit filed over three years ago against the Lower Merion School District by eight African American families will go to trial in November, according to a recent decisio

Katie Couric, perhaps reflecting the rather goofy and insular attitudes of her class, is awfully worried about her fellow Americans hating on Muslims, more worried in fact than about Muslims of the Is

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has condemned deadly New Year's Eve attacks in Egypt and Nigeria. In a statement, Obama says the perpetrators of an attack on an Egyptian church have no respe

TEXAS--The late legislator Barbara Jordan—who is honored with statues at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and the University of Texas at Austin—will receive another honor in 2011. A portrait

Happy 2011 Family! May everyone be blessed with health, wealth, happiness, peace, motivation and success this year.

Share your high and low points from the board for the year 2010...

1. San Diego, California The city's official have tried curbing the deficit by increasing sales taxes, but residents of the city strongly oppose this and have voted it down. San Diego already cu

As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You): The first day of the New Year should be a day of reflection, a day of prayer, a day of praise and thanks that we were blessed to make it through the last year

MISSOURI--A Baytown teacher is suing a school district, saying that it terminated her employment due to racial discrimination. Plaintiff Veronica Cooper filed the lawsuit in Harris County on Dec. 2

On Tuesday, Dec. 28th a cross section of leadership from the Black coommunity staged a public demonstration and press conference against the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper at 350 N. Orleans near th

NEW YORK--White Plains resident 12-year-old Joshua Colas is not only playing the highly intellectual game of chess, but dominating it. "Chess to me is like being an artist who is free to express hi

A doctor on his morning walk, noticed this lady (pictured at right), sitting on her front step smoking a cigar, so he walked up to her and said "I couldn't help but notice how happy you look! What is

In a post made in February 2009, Mr. Solomon asked the question "Can ANYONE present verifiable proof Brother Elijah Muhammad(pbuh) had children w/other women BESIDES Sister Clara? If yes, plase presen

HONOLULU - Frustrated by what he sees as a never-ending campaign to undermine President Barack Obama, Hawaii's new governor says he plans to use his post to counter conspiracy theorists who continue t

The following text is taken from a message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on July 16, 2000 at Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., pastored by the Reverend Willie Wils

LONDON: The World Cup finally made it to Africa in 2010 and plans were made to send football's showpiece to even more new destinations. After South Africa overcame dire predictions of security problem

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The same jury that convicted a father-son team of planting a bomb that killed two police officers inside an Oregon bank has now recommended that both be put to death. Bruce and J

All across the country, high school seniors are gearing up to apply to college. Many of them assume that the best thing they can do to ensure a bright future is to attend the most prestigious school t