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A StoryCorps Video About How Astronaut Ronald McNair Integrated His Hometown Library

• February 6, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Black Nerds, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentaries, Education, History, Love, Music, Public Television, Race, Science, Television
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, California, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Christa McAuliffe, Desegregation, Ellison Onizuka, Growing Up, Jean Michel Jarre, Lake City South Carolina, Laser Research, McNair, NASA, Physicist, Ronald Ervin McNair, Ronald McNair, Science, Scientist, Segregation, South Carolina, Space Shuttle Challenger, StoryCorps, The Eighties, The Fifties, The Seventies, United States

Those Posters From Facebook, “One Love, One Marriage” and “Family Values”

• January 22, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Michelle Obama, National Issues, Obama Administration, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Traditional Family Values", African Americans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Cain, Callista, Callista Gingrich, Catholic, Catholicism, Cheaters, Clinton, Family Values, First Lady Michelle Obama, FLOTUS, Grandiosity, Hypocrisy, Infidelity, Jackie Gingrich, Marianne Gingrich, Marriage, Newt Gingrich, Philandering, POTUS, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Public Policy, Republican, Retrograde, South Carolina, Spitzer, Texas, The Church, The Keith Olbermann Fan Page

WHAT? Bank Activity Required for a Wisconsin Voter ID Card?

• July 27, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Democrats, Discrimination, People of Color, Race
Tags: Bank Account, Democratic, DMV, Hidden Camera, North Carolina, Photo ID, Republican, Republican Party (United States), South Carolina, The State, Vital Records, Vital Statistics, Voter ID Bill, Voter ID Card, Voter Identification, Voter Registration, Voter Rights, Voter Suppression, Voter Suppression Laws, Voting, Wisconsin

Shaniya Davis: The Department of Social Services Betrayed Her From Day One

• October 5, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Antoinette Davis, Billy King, Biracial Children, Black Women, Blacks, Bradley Lockhart, Brenda Reid Jackson, Child Abduction, Child Abuse, Child Protective Services, Child Sex Slave, Child Sexual Abuse, Children, Criminal Investigation, Cumberland County, Department of Social Services, District Attorney Ed Grannis, Domestic Violence, DSS, DSS Director, Fayetteville Observer, Investigation, Law, Mario McNeill, Motherhood, North Carolina, Obstruction of Justice, Report, Shaniya Davis, South Carolina, State Bureau of Investigation, Stonewalling

There Must Be Thousands of Other Shaquan Duleys, But They Would Not Have Killed Their Kids

• August 17, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Education, Joblessness, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Race, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Bill O'Reilly, Black Boys, Black Children, Black Motherhood, Black Mothers, Black Women, Blacks, Boys, CBS, Child Abuse, Children, Common Sense, Devean, Devean Duley, Domestic Violence, Education, Extended Family, Faux Noise, Growing Up, Ja'van Duley, Javan, Jennifer Aniston, Job Loss, Latinos, Love, Mother, Motherhood, Murder, O'Lielly, Orangeburg County, Orangeburg SC, Resources, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Shaquan Duley, Single Black Mother, Single Black Woman, Single Black Women, South Carolina, The Edisto River, The Nineties, Unemployed

Reverend Ike, 74, Joins the Ancestors

• July 30, 2009 • 5 Comments

Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, History, People of Color, Religion, Televangelists, Television
Tags: "Think and grow rich.", "Thinkonomics", African American, African Americans, Biracials, Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, Harlem, Indonesia, Indonesian, Interracial Marriage, New York, Prayer Cloth, Rev. Ike, Reverend Ike, South Carolina, Televangelism, Televangelist, The Palace Cathedral, The Seventies, Washington Heights

Ty’Sheoma’s School Gets New Furniture and a New Coat of Paint, But What The School Really Needs is to Be Bulldozed and Rebuilt

• May 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Education, Obama Administration, Race, The Economy, The Stimulus Bill, Ty'Sheoma Bethea, Women
Tags: "Newsweek", Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington, Darryl Rosser, Dillon S.C., Extreme Makeover, Governor Sanford, J.V. Martin Junior High, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Sanford, Sagus International, South Carolina, Stimulus Bill, Stimulus Plan, Tuskegee, Ty'Sheoma Bethea

SC Governor Mark Sanford Turning Down Funds That Could’ve Gotten Ty’sheoma Bethea a New School

• March 13, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Education, Race
Tags: Mark Sanford, Michelle Obama, Obama Administration, South Carolina, Ty'Sheoma Bethea

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