culture
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Father of Los Angeles Lakers Player Killed in Philadelphia
Los Angeles Lakers guard Wayne Ellington Jr. is on an indefinite leave of absence after the team confirmed that a man shot and killed in Philadelphia on Sunday was his father, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, police said that they found Wayne Ellington Sr., 57, in the driver’s seat of a car…
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Study: Brazilian Police Kill 6 People a Day
Excessive use of force by police in Brazil has left more 11,000 people dead over approximately five years, averaging six deaths a day, a public-safety nongovernmental organization reported on Tuesday, according to CBS and the Associated Press. A study by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety pointed out that the total number of deaths in…
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Lincoln University President Apologizes for Comment About Rape
Lincoln University President Robert R. Jennings sent out an apology on Tuesday for remarks he made insinuating that women lied about rape, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. “My message was intended to emphasize personal responsibility and mutual respect,” Jennings wrote in his apology, according to the Inquirer. “I apologize for my choice of words. I certainly did…
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Members of White Conn. Frat Go Unpunished After Harassing Black Sorority
Members of the University of Connecticut chapter of the black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha are speaking out against how they’re being treated by the historically white Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, especially after individual members of the frat went unpunished after making racist and sexist attacks, the school’s Daily Campus newspaper reports. “We were called whores,…
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Michael Brown’s Parents Pour Their Hearts Out to the UN
Michael Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., spoke before a United Nations committee in Geneva on Tuesday to urge the panel to “recommend the immediate arrest” of the police officer who shot their unarmed son, a CNN report explains. They also told the committee to recommend that Ferguson, Mo., police officers put an…
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Mo. National Guard on Standby as Darren Wilson Grand Jury Verdict Nears
Soon the nation will learn if a grand jury in Missouri has decided to bring charges against police Officer Darren Wilson, the cop who fatally shot the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The state’s governor, Jay Nixon, thought it would be smart to place the state’s National Guard on standby just in case a verdict is…
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The Beauty of Change: How Art Is Transforming a Notorious South Fla. Community
It was a Field of Dreams moment for the Opa-locka Community Development Corp. four years ago, when it decided that the South Florida city plagued with poverty, violence and drugs deserved a chance. So the nonprofit development organization that helps revitalize neighborhoods and keeps them affordable figured if it wanted the neighborhood to be beautiful, it first…
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Can White Teachers Be Taught How to Teach Our Children?
A North Carolina teacher tells students that killing all black people is on her bucket list if she only has 10 days to live. The principal of a middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y., promotes learning a foreign language to prospective students and their parents with a reminder that “if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going…
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How You Can Turn Volunteering Into Full-Time Work
Whether you are 21 or 45, a position as a volunteer is a smart way to improve job skills, expand corporate experience and get a foot in the door of a new company. Many companies look to their volunteers as a readily available applicant pool. Some also require their employees to serve as volunteers to…