Tiger Woods will return to golf at Masters
Source: CNN Tiger Woods announced he will make his much-anticipated return to golf at the Masters in April. "The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect," Woods said in a statement. ...
Donna Brazile Urges Primaries For Dems Who Vote Against Health Care Reform
Source: The Huffington Post A leading Democratic consultant who serves in an official capacity with the Democratic National Committee has come out in favor of primary challenges to Democratic lawmakers who help kill the president's health care bill. Donna ...
Woods likely to return at Masters
Source: Golf.com Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press. Woods has been practicing at Isleworth near his Orlando home the last two ...
NEWSWEEK: Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers
The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in ...
New wave of foreclosures threatens market
Source: Renae Merle/The Washington Post The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just ...
Cornel West latest interview with Avi Lewis on Fault Lines
Avi Lewis talks to Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton, hip hop artist, and one of the most controversial academics in the US about the state of democracy for African-Americans in the US today, US foreign policy, ...
- Bobb: Close 45 Detroit schools16 March 2010, 5:09 pm
Source: Lori Higgins and Chastity Pratt Dawsey/Freep.com Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, asked parents Monday night to get behind his academic plan, an ambitious road map to the future that envisions a smaller district with the closing of 45 more schools this year and sets dramatic targets for [...]...
- Grill ripped from man’s teeth at Tenn. jail16 March 2010, 4:37 pm
Source: MSNBC Lawyers in Nashville have worked out a settlement after a sheriff’s lieutenant ripped the grill off a man’s teeth at the county jail. Anthony McCoy was arrested in November and brought to the jail for not paying child support. McCoy was told to remove the jewelry from his teeth, but he [...]...
- AARP Launches Massive Job Fair Project For Older Unemployed16 March 2010, 4:15 pm
Source: Arthur Delaney/The Huffington Post To help the more than two million unemployed Americans who are older than 55, the AARP is sponsoring 48 job fairs in 19 states with high unemployment rates for older workers. The events, the first of which is on Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, will offer career counseling [...]...
- Women fear violence in Haitian camps16 March 2010, 4:15 pm
Source: Sara Sidner/CNN Carine Exantus should be sitting in her college communications class. Instead, the 22-year-old is teaching herself how to avoid being attacked by the men who live in her new neighborhood — a maze of makeshift shelters spaced so close together that it is hard to get between them but [...]...
- Tiger Woods will return to golf at Masters16 March 2010, 3:54 pm
Source: CNN Tiger Woods announced he will make his much-anticipated return to golf at the Masters in April. “The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect,” Woods said in a statement. “After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m [...]...
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart Enlists Mick Foley To Compare Politics To Professional Wrestling16 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Source: The Huffington Post Jon Stewart opened the show last night with a rundown of the double-standards by politicians over the years. Rattling off name after name, Stewart said, “It’s hard to imagine that any of these people believe in anything. Their ethics are purely situational.” Correspondent Wyatt Cenac joined Stewart and compared politicians to professional wrestlers, [...]...
- Washington Watch w/Roland Martin – Roland Calls Out ESPN’s Rick Reilly15 March 2010, 7:25 pm
In this new segment of Washington Watch, Roland calls out ESPN’s Rick Reilly. Reilly wrote a piece in ESPN’s magazine, dogging Yates High School coach Greg Wise for what he called running up the score in many of their games. Sphere: Related Content...
- Desperate plea for health care15 March 2010, 4:56 pm
An 11-year-old boy whose mother died without health insurance has become an outspoken advocate for reform. Sphere: Related Content... - VIDEO: ‘No Child Left Behind’ revamp?15 March 2010, 2:54 pm
President Obama plans to change the way public schools are evaluated. CNN’s John Roberts reports. Sphere: Related Content... - Seinfeld Appears On ‘SNL’ To Rip Eric Massa15 March 2010, 2:25 pm
Source: The Huffington Post Continuing to promote “The Marriage Ref” by simply being Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian joined Seth Meyers last night for the segment “Really!?! With Seth And Jerry.” Seinfeld took on the role originated by Amy Poehler as he and Meyers laid into Eric Massa. Asked Seinfeld: “Why do I have the feeling that [...]...
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Roland talks with Tom Burrell, author of “Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority”. Burrell explains that negative images of African-Americans have been distributed for 400 years. Through the distribution of these images the myth of Black inferiority was created. The myth was sold to America in order to justify the profound contradiction... [Click here to listen]
Roland talks with Russlynn H. Ali, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. Ali states that the Office of Civil Rights works to ensure that children are free from discrimination. The OCR looks at access and career ready curriculum, how students are disciplined and if discrimination is present, the OCR wants to know why and will look to remedy it. Ali... [Click here to listen]
Dr. Malveaux is critical of the character that Mo’nique plays in ‘Precious’. She would like to see more positive roles for African-Americans in Hollywood. Malveaux also feels that we are never shown in all of our diversity and that there are not enough positive rolls for African-American women. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or... [Click here to listen]
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