Book Review: The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases

From Law & Politics Book Review, http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/reviews/2007/11/michigan-affirmative-action-cases.html

Separation Anxiety (HBCUs)

From the Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119638557991308817.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Blacks save far less money in 401(k) plans than whites

From the Indianapolis Recorder, http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/articles/2007/11/29/news/national/news01.txt

Investors Concerned as Radio One’s Stock Price Falls Under Two Dollars Per Share

From Emerging Minds, http://www.emergingminds.org/magazine/content/money.php?itemid=5546

Obama’s Color Line

Juan Williams’ Op-Ed in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/opinion/30williams.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Columbia Students Call Off Racial Issues Hunger Stikre

From Emerging Minds, http://www.emergingminds.org/magazine/content/diaspora.php?itemid=5535

America Has Lost a Generation of Black Boys

The Field Negro posts today at http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2007/11/lost-boys.html to remind us of Phillip Jackson’s excellent America Has Lost a Generation of Black Boys, http://www.blackstarproject.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=38.

Minority Students Fuel Rise in Graduate Enrollments

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/news/article/3520/minority-students-fuel-rise-in-graduate-enrollments

Food Banks, in a Squeeze, Tighten Belts

From the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/us/30food.html?ex=1354078800&en=3fa3a37ab916a288&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Monday, November 19, 2007

Study Naming Detroit Most Dangerous City Criticized for “an irresponsible misuse” of Crime Data, from the Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS05/711190333/1001

African American Juveniles 10 Times More Likely than White Children to be Given Life Without Parole , from the Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004022385_juveniles19.html?syndication=rss

Republican Party of Florida Kicks Off First Black Republican Conference, from PR Newswire, http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-16-2007/0004707558&EDATE=

Sony Pictures to Release This Christmas on November 21–Story of Middle-Class Black Family, http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thischristmas/

Websites of the Day:

Republic Party of Florida, http://www.rpof.org/