01/09/2009
Black directors look beyond African-American niche (The Columbus Dispatch)
It has been 10 years since Spike Lee -- entrepreneur, provocateur and role model for aspiring directors of color -- declared in The New York Times that it was an era of unprecedented possibility for African-American filmmakers.
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01/08/2009
State school board creates African American advisory group (The Sacramento Bee)
The California State Board of Education voted today to create an African American Advisory Committee to better understand issues concerning the achievement gap between African American students and their counterparts. According to a report in October from the Human Resources Research Organization, the state's African American 10th grade students scored substantially lower than white, Asian, ...
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01/08/2009
State school board creates African American advisory group (The Sacramento Bee)
The California State Board of Education voted Wednesday to create an African American Advisory Committee to better understand issues concerning the achievement gap between African American students and their counterparts. According to a report in October from the Human Resources Research Organization, the state's African American 10th grade students scored substantially lower than white, ...
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01/08/2009
African-American leaders gathering tomorrow over English-only (The Tennessean)
As the early voting continues in the English-Only amendment, local African-American leaders say the move is "bad news" for Nashville. African-American leaders and community organizations will be calling for the defeat of the measure at a press conference today at 11 a.m. in front of the Metro Election Commission, 800 2nd Ave.
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01/08/2009
African-American center plans ball (Killeen Daily Herald)
Tickets for the Center for the African-American Studies and Research Presidential Inaugural Ball are available to the public. The event is black-tie optional and will begin at 6 p.m. Jan. 20 in the ballroom of Shilo Inn in Killeen.
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01/08/2009
Cookbooks: 'New African-American Kitchen' recipe for Papaya Beef (Pioneer Press)
Recipes like this date to the slave era. At the time, what little meat was available to slaves usually was the toughest cuts. Some slave cooks used papayas, which are rich in enzymes, to tenderize the meat. (Recipe adapted from "The New African-American Kitchen.")
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01/07/2009
Nuclear Family Making Comeback in the African American Community (FOX 4 News Kansas City)
At a time when homicides have trended upwards among African Americans across the Kansas City metro, community leaders say that another important statistic has escaped the headlines. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that two-parent households now make up 40 percent of all African American families, up five percent from 2004.
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01/08/2009
Yale introduces first African-American football coach (New England Cable News)
(Brian Burnell, NECN: New Haven, CT) - Yale has been playing football for 137 years. Wednesday marked a milestone in that history as the school named Tom Williams as its new head football coach. He is the first African American to hold the position. Major college football lags well behind the rest of society in hiring blacks to top positions. African Americans head just seven, of the 119 ...
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01/06/2009
'Diva' has new African-American cookbook (The Wilmington Star-News)
Austin, Texas | Angela Shelf Medearis sees big changes in African-American cuisine over the last decade or so.
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01/09/2009
PERNESSA SEELE EXPLAINS AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH INAUGURAL BALL: Event's producer and 'Balm' founder promises ... (Eurweb)
*Next week there will be several parties celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama, but ain’t no party like a Holy Ghost party, ‘cause a Holy Ghost party don’t stop.
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