LOCAL NEWS
Federal grant spurs MBTA bus stop improvementsUsing a $10 million dollar federal grant received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the MBTA is proceeding with efforts to improve 15 of the busiest city bus routes, including several that run through Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park. More » |
U.S. bankruptcy judge continues Charles Street hearingsA federal bankruptcy judge last week continued hearings until later this month on the latest motions in the case between Charles Street AME and OneUnited bank, two of Boston's leading black institutions. More » |
Boston students provided health care educationLeaders in Massachusetts health care and public schools gathered last week at Boston City Hall to announce a $10 million scholarship initiative. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Policing the public schools creates new problemsA few years ago, a student at Kennedy Middle School in Springfield, Mass., was found with a cell phone in his bag -- a breach of school policy. After school administrators confiscated his phone, and told him to have his mother pick it up, the student started cursing and demanding that they give his phone back. More » |
Scholars: 'unconscious bias' leads to discriminationNEW ORLEANS -- Leading social justice scholars believe that "unconscious bias" leads to negative racial stereotyping that can unknowingly prompt discriminatory actions and attitudes toward people of color. More » |
Voter suppression laws 'biggest setback in decades'Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio, Texas, says his elderly mother could become one of millions of Americans likely to be barred from participating in this year's voting process because of newly enacted voter suppression legislation. More » |
NAACP launches 'This Is My Vote' campaignThe 2008 U.S. Presidential election brought us not only a historic election but also record participation of minority voters. More than 2 million more African American voters and an additional 2 million Latino voters cast ballots than had done so in the previous presidential election cycle in 2004. More » |
