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Texas Re-writing History Without Hispanics and Blacks?

Texas has become the centerpiece for conservative education and a downward spiral in the fight for a decent education in America.  America is on fire with the debate over funding cuts to education.  But, there are other issues in education slipping under the radar.  Members of the Texas board of education are re-writing history by making sure that their students will be offered a slanted and/or distorted presentation of  African Americans and Hispanics contributions to the progress of the U.S….among other lapses in information.

According to the New York Times, last Friday, the Texas Board of Education, in one vote, changed the social studies curriculum to reflect a glorified conservative view of American capitalism and its dominance over every aspect of human development in the world. (more…)

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Jimmy Kimmel Calls Mo’Nique ‘Chewbacca’ (Video)

Jimmy Kimmel’s show isn’t all THAT popular and now he’s going to call a black woman…no change that!  An Oscar-winning black woman a furry beast on national television.   Mo’Nique, as Jay-Z would say, really isn’t the one to try and score points off of.  She has a platform at the helm of her very own night time talk show on BET too.  So, he might wanna steer clear of her, especially when there could be a comment even mildly translated as racist targeted at her.  She keeps it REAL!  And that’s kinda where all of this controversy begins. (more…)

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Black History Month Spotlight: Rosa Parks (Video)

Rosa Parks

Today, February 4, 1913,  Rosa Louis McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.  She is best known for not giving up her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955.   This event, arguabl, sparked what is popularly known as the Civil Rights movement with the Montgomery bus boycott.  No black person rode the busses in Montgomery for a little more than a year.  This was not the first time this incident happpened though.  She had been forced off in 1943, for mistakenly sitting in a seat reserved for whites only.  But, years later when she sat in that seat again, she was an officer at the NAACP; a secretary for the Montgomery chapter. (more…)

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Black History Month Spotlight: Harlem Globetrotters (Video)

Harlem Globetrotter Marcus Haines

What do you know about the team they call “The Team That Changed the World?”  Did you know that they not only were magicians of the basketball court, but they, arguably, were the reason why the NBA has any black players today.   Growing up, all we knew of the Harlem Globetrotters is that they were phenomenal entertainers on the basketball court.  We never thought any team would be crazy enough to actually try to play them because every time they did, they would make a fool out of them.  But, one instrumental game that opened up the basketball association was the Minneapolis Lakers vs. the Harlem Globetrotters. (more…)

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Black Students Leave College Under Race Threat

The Hocking Heights dormitory at Hocking College.

The terrorist race threat at Hocking College is at level red in Nelsonville, Oh.   Diverse Issues in Higher Education is reporting that some of the black students have withdrawn permanently from the college out of fear of being killed.  Apparently, the FBI has been called in to investigate a threat of a black student massacre.  There was a threat written in a bathroom of the school dormitory, Hockings Heights, that read, ”Black students would be killed Feb. 2.” (more…)

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Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally Hosts ‘Proud Racist’ (Video)

The state of California has only one kind of “illegal”, according to these people at an Anti-Illegal Immigration rally.  They don’t specify, but we can only assume, they are probably speaking directly to the Mexicans coming over the border.  They just aren’t saying it in any of their speeches.

This rally took place earlier this month and a California Councilman Bob Kellar and a black man Jamiel Shaw stood on their soap boxes and proclaimed that they were proud racists for all to hear.  Mr. Shaw, first of all, you could never be a racist, no matter what they tell you.  (more…)

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