The entire country is in an uproar on the cutbacks to education from kindergarten to college. But, as the funding has been cut back in states throughout the U.S., student’s tuition and fees have soared as a response. State governments plan to let the students shoulder the burden that they have created. According to CNN, UC students throughout their system have literally [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Weak gun laws in Georgia are making it easy for guns to fall into the wrong hands. It has taken on the monicker of the “iron pipe line” because so many people are trafficking guns up the I-95 corridor to commit unlawful acts with guns they’re not licensed to have. CNN reports from a gun store [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Now we have heard some harsh and horrendous things about some black-owned funeral homes and crematories, but damn. The last most bizarre case was in 2002 in Georgia, when the man hadn’t performed scheduled cremations and dumped nearly 200 bodies in the woods. Well here is a funeral home in South Carolina that just went ahead and “shortened” a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
It is so horrible to hear that Morris Brown College has hit rock bottom. The school’s been on life support for some time now and it’s heart wrenching to watch the organs of such an integral part of the body of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU’s) shut down one by one. Brown’s Frederick D. Jordan [...]
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Friday, March 5, 2010
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