Schools: Another attempt to end federal oversight
Forty-four Mississippi school districts — the largest number in the Southeast — remain embroiled in lawsuits seeking to end decades of federal oversight.
Segregation gaining 60 years after Brown
Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago, according to a report released today by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
U.S. teachers nowhere as diverse as their students
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite.
New studies from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association are calling attention to this “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States. The groups want more to be done to help teachers more accurately mirror the students in their classrooms.
Kathleen Parker: Erasing the race card
One approaches the race fray with trepidation, but here we go, tippy-toe.
Race for Results: New report details racial gap among U.S. children
In every region of America, white and Asian children are far better positioned for success than black, Latino and American Indian children, according to a new report appealing for urgent action to bridge this racial gap.
Mushing family a strong presence in Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Don’t get Dallas and Mitch Seavey wrong. They love each other, even though they might not say it in so many words. But they’re also fierce competitors, more than happy to pass each other on the nearly 1,000 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to be the first to reach Nome.
Leonard Pitts: White fear trumps black life
“You can get killed just for living in your American skin.” — Bruce Springsteen On Aug. 7, 1930, two young black men were lynched in
City asks for summary judgment in hiring discrimination suit
A year after a police officer filed a discrimination lawsuit against the City of Columbus, the case is one step closer to going to trial.
The race of Jesus: Unknown, yet powerful
For two thousand years, he has been worshipped and adored. Multitudes look to him each day. And yet nobody really knows the face of Jesus.
Calif. Arab sparks debate over ethnic mascots
LOS ANGELES — On game days in Thermal, where date farms and desert surroundings evoke the Middle East and nearby communities have names like Mecca
White mayor, black wife: NYC shatters an image
Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in
Brown leads fund-raising in prosecutor race
Interim Oktibbeha County Prosecutor Haley Brown holds a significant lead in campaign financing over her two opponents, Brace Knox and Matthew Wilson, outpacing both in donations and expenses used toward Nov. 5’s special election, documentation shows.
Race-hustling has its costs
Years ago, someone said that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees cannot fly. But the bumblebees, not knowing the laws of aerodynamics, go ahead
Three candidates will run for county prosecutor
Three Starkville attorneys — Haley Brown, Brace Knox and Matthew Wilson — have qualified for the Oktibbeha County prosecutor’s special election scheduled for Nov. 5.
AP-NORC Poll: Demographics divide views of schools
WASHINGTON — Minority and low-income parents are more likely to see serious problems in their schools — from low expectations to bullying to out-of-date technology
Optimism of whites in U.S. lags blacks by big margin
Americans’ attitudes about their economic future are sharply divided by race, with whites significantly less likely than blacks or Hispanics to think they can improve their own standard of living. Indeed, optimism among minorities now outpaces that of whites by the widest margin since at least 1987, a new analysis shows.
Fears over Zimmerman riots prove overblown
The predictions were dire: Black people would burn and loot America’s cities if George Zimmerman was found not guilty. White people everywhere would be attacked in revenge for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Voting Rights ruling alters election dynamic
JACKSON — Because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Mississippi and other states with a history of racial discrimination no longer need federal preclearance
Thomas Sowell: Who is racist?
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the
Slimantics: An honest inquiry on race…
During Wednesday’s Table Talk program at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, four well-known local officials led a discussion on the subject, “My Favorite Childhood Book is….”
Lowndes County supervisors Harry Sanders and Leroy Brooks, along with Columbus Mayor Robert Smith and Chancery Clerk Lisa Younger Neese, spoke briefly about their favorite books, but it was the discussion that followed that proved most interesting.