Office of Senator Mary Landrieu United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today announced that six schools in Louisiana received more than $6.8 million as a part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Institutional Aid Program. “I have long supported Historically Black Colleges and...
From the Wire House Republicans today presented “A Pledge to America,” a new governing agenda for the nation built upon the priorities of the American people. This document is the result of an unprecedented effort of citizen engagement – the America Speaking Out project – in which Republicans sought the...
Dallas South Newswire Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, contacted Fox News CEO Roger Ailes today to demand that his news division add a formal disclaimer during segments about the 2010 election to inform viewers that Fox’s parent company provided an unprecedented $1 million contribution to defeat...
I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world, as partners with America on behalf of the future we want for all of our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility and mutual respect.” President Obama, Accra, Ghana, July 2009
From the Dallas South Newswire STATEMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON PASSAGE OF THE FAIR SENTENCING ACT “I congratulate the House of Representatives on today’s passage of the Fair Sentencing Act. The bill greatly reduces the unwarranted disparity in sentences for crack and powder cocaine offenses, and will go a...
From the Dallas South Newswire Newsmaker Shirley Sherrod is set to appear before thousands of journalists on Thursday, July 29 at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention in San Diego, Calif. Sherrod has made headlines over the past two weeks for her forced resignation from the U.S....
Why is it always Paris Texas? Officer was suspended two days (two days?) for this incident.
Today on CNN, Memphis Tea Party founder Mark Skoda and Washington Bureau NAACP Director Hilary Shelton agreed to “find a more common ground together” in a conversation today with TJ Holmes in the CNN Newsroom.
By Lorrie Irby Jackson There are optimists who believe that, eventually, we will achieve a color-blind society: folks who are hoping for a post-racial America, a more meaningful dialogue about race and the righting of wrongs against people of color that have occurred again and again over the last few...
By Malia Litman – Malia Litman’s Blog Sarah Palin spoke this weekend at the Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas, a small town in East Texas. She was introduced at the event by Texas Governor Rick Perry, who referred to half-term-ex-Governor Palin as one of the “great Americans of our time.” ...
