LOCAL NEWS
Arts grant brings history to MattapanMiddle schoolers at Mildred Avenue K-8 School in Mattapan have wrapped up a two-month grant-funded program of musical and historical enrichment. About 40 students participated in "Emancipation Chronicles," a workshop series led jointly by Opera Boston and Mssng Lnks, a Boston nonprofit that provides vocal training to underserved youth. More » |
Coakley proposing extra focus on public corruptionAttorney General Martha Coakley announced last week she is creating a task force to focus on public corruption that has permeated the Massachusetts political establishment. More » |
Fiddling while the 'hood is burning?Students of classical history are familiar with the old axiom of Nero fiddling while Rome burned, and for those who are not, it simply means that leadership preoccupied with the frivolous often preside over a declining state of affairs. Today this term has a likewise axiomatic meaning, as some in black leadership posture for an illusionary sense of power and indulge in self-congratulatory praise. More » |
The NAACP's 'finest hour'As historical footnotes go, this one is gaining modern relevance. The Second Suffolk state senatorial district has always been about the numbers. More » |
Gov.'s Council approves Duffly for Mass. SJCAppeals Court Associate Justice Fernande "Nan" Duffly survived a close vote last week to win approval as the first Asian American member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. More » |
Report faults Mass. on Latino educationBOSTON - Latino students in Massachusetts are missing an average of nearly three weeks of school a year and have lower high school graduation rates than other ethnic groups, according to a new report released last week. More » |
JP Post Office to be renamed after Lcpl. ArredondoFollowing a U.S. House vote last year, the Jamaica Plain Post Office is to be named after Lcpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, a native of the community who died in active duty in August 2004 in Najaf, Iraq. More » |
Gov. Patrick unveils $30.5B Mass. budget planMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled his state budget for the 2012 fiscal year, a spending plan that would dip deeper into the state's rainy day fund to help close a projected $1.5 billion spending gap, but avoid new taxes while making cuts to state services. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Kansas State celebrates rediscovery of King speechMartin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Kansas State University just months before his death in 1968, and school officials long believed that any full recording had been lost in a fire later that year. More » |
Man lobbies to see father honored for service in WWIIURBANA, Ill. - His father was the first black man - and still the only one - elected to a countywide office in Champaign County, may have been the first African American elected a state's attorney in Illinois history, and later was appointed a U.S. attorney for a large section of downstate Illinois. More » |
Kansas' messy racial history dates to its foundingTOPEKA, Kan. - During the prelude to the Civil War, Kansans fought on the side of what was right, seeking to keep the scourge of slavery out of the state and help the enslaved. More » |
Small SC town pauses to remember astronaut sonCHARLESTON, S.C. - In the small community of Lake City, people knew Ron McNair was special long before the man who would become the town's most famous son became the second black American to fly in space. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Egyptian protests stretch from Harvard Square to CairoHundreds of supporters rallied in Harvard Square last Saturday to show solidarity for the Egyptian revolt against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year dictatorial rule. More » |
Egyptian streets no stranger to anger and protestAlong a wide boulevard in Cairo, a dozen Egyptians were standing on the steps to a building, holding placards written in Arabic. They were doctors employed in government hospitals, staging another demonstration at their union's headquarters to call for an increase in their meager pay. More » |
Haiti president: Duvalier should face justiceSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Haitian President Rene Preval said Saturday that ex-dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had every right to return home from exile, but must now face an investigation of alleged abuses during his reign. More » |
