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*We were so glad to see Wilcox County High School in Cordele, Georgia, come to their senses and have an integrated prom last week. Even though it was organized by students that were fed up with the state of affairs, surely the triumph feels the same. The Class of 1963, may have taken notes from [...]
*Comic Tracy Morgan is firing back at women’s rights groups following fierce criticism of his shows in Australia and calls to boycott the rest of his tour Down Under. The comedian suffered a mass walk-out during his performance in Melbourne on April 13, with fans and critics subsequently complaining about the overly sexual references and [...]
*Well first things first, the president is not really attending a PSY performance; he is actually headed to the traditional “Christmas in Washington Concert,” where PSY is performing. There’s a difference. As you may recall, EUR recently published a story about a petition for president Obama to join PSY at this same concert, and participate in the new [...]
*The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been arrested in a group of protesting northern Illinois workers during an act of civil disobedience in Freeport, Ill. Michael Peery, a spokesman for Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, tells The Associated Press that Jackson was taken into custody Wednesday with about a dozen workers. He is expected to be released later [...]
*Dianna Hobbs, President & CEO of Empowering Everyday Women (EEW) Online Magazine, the nation’s leading web publication for Christian women of color, is hitting back after an article she viewed as disrespectful to black Christians was published on NBC’s black news site, theGrio.com. The piece written by Kirsten West-Savali titled, “Blacks supporting Chick-Fil-A: Is eating chicken [...]
*While Republican presidential candidate Herman was busy calling the Occupy Wall Street protesters anti-American and anti-capitalistic, President Obama, at his press conference a day later, said he understood the anger and frustration that underlies the movement – including his painful decision to bail out the very folks who put America in its depressed financial state. [...]
*Some advocates for racial equality are criticizing the selection of Louis Farrakhan as the keynote speaker for an annual convention of civil rights veterans in Mississippi, reports the Los Angeles Times. Farrakhan leads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, which published two books last year on what Farrakhan calls the “anti-black behavior” of Jews. Leaders of [...]
*Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday he won’t seek re-election this fall but vowed to fulfill his current term and oversee the restoration of order in the country consumed with anti-government unrest for more than a week. Mubarak said the demonstrations paralyzing Egypt began as expressions of the legitimate will of the people for democratic [...]
*Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church says it will send members of its congregation to protest the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards this Saturday, CNN reports. The church has generated controversy with its confrontational and offensive demonstrations. “God Hates Fags” has become an unofficial calling card of the group, a phrase they say the world “needs to hear [...]
*A group of Michael Jackson fans in the Czech Republic plans to build a statue of Michael Jackson in Prague, but the idea has been met by widespread protest, reports the AP. The fans want to erect a six-foot column with a bronze bust of the King of Pop in Letna Park, where Jackson held [...]
*The Tea Party express has been in Washington D.C. all day rallying at the National Mall – but so has “The Other 95%,” a pro-Obama group whose name reflects the percentage of U.S. citizens that will benefit under President Obama’s tax cuts. “Obama passed 25 separate tax cuts,” Sheryl Stein, founding member of “The Other [...]
Akon has made his first public comments since his scheduled concert in Sri Lanka was cancelled due to angry protests over the presence of a Buddha statue in his music video. “I was not aware that the statue was even on the set of the video until now. I would never set out to offend [...]
*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 [...]
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