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By U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.), NNPA Special Commentary December 3, 2007 Many years ago, Abraham Lincoln challenged Americans to maintain a government "of the people by the people and for the people."
According to the latest Pew Research Center Survey, "Black Americans are more downbeat about black progress today than at any time since the early 1980s."
According to the latest Pew Research Center Survey, "Black Americans are more downbeat about black progress today than at any time since the early 1980s."
Black students in Montgomery County high schools passed 1,062 Advanced Placement tests this year, making the school system the first, along with the New York City public schools, to cross the thousand-test threshold.
A federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.
A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the NYPD's practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of people each year for questioning, saying it is racially biased.
A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.