Sad, Sad Story

From BlackSpin at BlackVoices.

Mother Arrested for Desertion 10 Years Later. 

 

Will Black Colleges Survive the Economic Downturn?

Two articles caught by eye today.

Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science is laying off 10% of its faculty and staff according to the February 7th edition of the Los Angeles Times.

And the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on the same day that Clark Atlanta University is cutting 70 faculty and 30 staff positions.

A Once-Segregated Shore

Interesting article on Philly.com on the black beaches in pre-integration New Jersey, including a picture, no kidding, of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the beach!

Happy 100th Birthday, Thurgood!

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s 100th birthday is today, July 2, 2008.

Let’s each take a moment to say a private “thank you.”

Vogue Magazine–Two Stories

Is Fashion Racist? (from Vogue’s style.com)

Italian Vogue Publishes All-Black Issue from Richard Prince’s Journal-Isms

‘Geek Girl’ Keeps Firefox Safe and Secure

From blackvoices.com.

Small Steps

Well, I guess any approach is better than none.  This article, entitled, “Will ‘marry your baby daddy’ idea catch on in DC?” is from the District Chronicles.

Oil Discovered in Ghana

Good news or a curse? From Emerging Minds Magazine, the citizens state, “we have gold and the majority are poor, we have timber and the majority are poor, we have cocoa and the majority are poor, and indeed almost all the natural resources one could [t]hink of and we are still languishing in economic hardships . . .”

Diversity in Entertainment: Why is TV So White?

This special report from, of all sources, Entertainment Weekly, hits home about the upcoming television season in preparation for the official NAACP protest.

New Civil Rights Digital Library

The University of Georgia’s new Civil Rights Digital Library provides organized access to the resources of nearly 100 digital collections to provide a single source for online civil rights research.

The excellent interface allows browsing (Events, People, Places, Topics, Collections) and searching of the collections. There are articles, photographs, legal and government documents, moving images, posters, broadsides and other sources (see the complete list of media types).  The collections of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland, the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas, Yale Law School, and the Virginia Center for Digital History Information at U.Va. are just a few of those included (click here to see more).