LOCAL NEWS
Private donations to aid Boston Public SchoolsEdVestors recently announced that its donors are investing more than $1,000,000 in urban school improvement initiatives in Boston Public Schools through its 2010 Urban Education Investment Portfolio beginning this fall for the 2010-2011 school year. More » |
Gov. Patrick praises U.S. troops during tripGov. Deval Patrick and four of his fellow state leaders received a briefing last Friday from Gen. David Petraeus as they stopped in Afghanistan amid a tour of the Middle East war zone. More » |
U.S. program turns refugees into farmersDRACUT, Mass. - The bullet wounds show on Rechhat Proum's back when he bends down to pull lemongrass or water spinach on his farm in peaceful northern Massachusetts. When the 56-year-old Cambodian refugee lifts a pumpkin, the movement of his shirt reveals deep stab wounds on his stomach. More » |
Leadership shines as Puerto Rican Festival is restoredLast weekend, Boston's Puerto Rican Festival was back in force, with three days of salsa superstars, traditional Puerto Rican foods, customized cars, carnival rides and - of course - lots and lots of Puerto Rican flags. More » |
Hip hop festival unifies community, shares cultureVisual artists, MCs, politicians, singers, break dancers and a myriad of others unified on Sunday in the Southwest Corridor Park, across from the Stony Brook Orange Line T stop to participate in the first Hip Hop 4 Life Culture Festival. More » |
Obituary: Herbert G. Simmons Jr.Herbert G. Simmons Jr., former chief pharmacist for health and hospitals, city of Boston, died on July 12 after a long illness. He was 75. More » |
A summertime passionMost mornings, Donovan Malvo goes flying for an hour before heading to the office, then for a couple hours in the evening. As often as possible, he takes flight on the weekends too. Only rain, high wind and work stop him from doing it seven days a week. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Sherrod aside, black farmers denied againWASHINGTON - Black farmers, due $1.2 billion for a legacy of discrimination by the U.S. Agriculture Department, suffered a new and disheartening setback this week, despite the national spotlight provided by the quickly disavowed firing of a black department worker. More » |
Va. professor asserts he found oldest black schoolWILLIAMSBURG, Va. - A College of William and Mary professor thinks he may have found the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for African American children. More » |
Black racism: A real problem, or pure politics?Is black racism a real problem? Or is it pure politics? Shirley Sherrod was dismissed from her Agriculture Department job because remarks she made about her dealings with a white farmer almost a quarter century ago were perceived as racist. She was offered her job back last Wednesday because a full viewing of that speech showed it to be a tale of racial reconciliation. More » |
Poll: US Hispanics mix hopes, strainsMIAMI - Yadilka Aramboles eyes her three young children playing on the sidewalk and sees college in their future - even though her husband's modest accountant's income barely covers the family's most basic expenses. More » |
Ousted USDA official unsure about returning to workALBANY, Ga. - Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said last week. More » |
WORLD NEWS
A Russian milestone: First black elected to officeZAVIDOVO, Russia - People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare - an honest politician. More » |
IMF cancels $268 million Haiti debtPARIS - The IMF says it has canceled Haiti's $268 million debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another $60 million to help it with reconstruction plans. More » |
Number of political prisoners in Cuba still murkyHAVANA - If Cuba releases 52 prisoners of conscience as promised, it will still hold more than 100 people listed as political prisoners by the island?s leading human rights group. But a closer look will find bombers, hijackers and fallen intelligence agents mixed in with those jailed simply for insulting Fidel Castro. More » |
South Africa's Tutu to retire from public lifeCAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced last week he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. More » |
