Associated PressHomeVoting Rights Law Under High Court ReviewDays before the first Black president takes office, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider overturning a key feature of the main federal law that ensures access to the polls by minorities.January 11, 2009LatinxBoy Scouts See Hispanics as Key to SurvivalAs it prepares to turn 100, the Boy Scouts of America is honing its survival skills for what might be its biggest test yet: drawing Hispanics into its declining and mostly White ranks.January 8, 2009StudentsForgotten No More: Schools Cater To TransfersFor many new students, the first-year college experience is an academic and social buffet, a dizzying array of activities and opportunities to herald the passage into adulthood. Not so for transfer students, a growing but largely neglected group whose needs are as varied as the circumstances that bring them to campus in the first place.January 7, 2009HomeColo. 1st State With 2 Black Legislative LeadersSharecropper’s grandson Terrance Carroll was chosen Wednesday as speaker of Colorado’s House of Representatives, making the state the first in the nation where Blacks lead both chambers of its Legislature.January 7, 2009LatinxUniversity Plans Open Data Base on Pedro Pan AirliftBarry University and the Miami Herald, which has been credited with coining the phrase Operation Pedro Pan in a story in 1962, are creating a public, searchable Internet database of the names of all children airlifted from Cuba as part of the project that began the day after Christmas in 1960.January 6, 2009LatinxUniversity of Arkansas Law Clinic Advises ImmigrantsAs director of the new immigration law clinic at the University of Arkansas, Elizabeth Young said she and her students would help clients through the dense web of regulations governing those coming to the United States.January 6, 2009HealthCNN: Gupta Approached About Surgeon General PostPresident-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about becoming the country’s next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.January 6, 2009HomeWater Back on at Morris Brown; Still In Deep Financial TroubleMorris Brown College raised enough donations to pay off its $380,000 overdue water bill, but that’s not the only financial crisis facing the 127-year-old college.January 4, 2009HomeRichardson Withdraws Bid to be Commerce SecretaryNew Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.January 4, 2009HBCUsGreat DebatersTwo historically Black colleges have been picked to participate in a debate series as part of the events surrounding President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration next month.December 28, 2008Previous PagePage 286 of 569Next Page
