Sunday, November 14, 2010

African-American News - November 14, 2010

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African-American News - November 14, 2010

Pam Foreman's kindergarten report card made history. Enlarge The Times-Picayune U.S. Deputy Marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in Nov.

About 19,000 U.S. Marines who trained at Montford Point at Camp Lejeune over a seven-year period have an important place in history.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will create a new leadership post for Rep. Jim Clyburn as Democrats prepare to cede control of the House of Representatives to Republicans in January.

The Detroit Branch NAACP, one of the oldest and largest chapters in the national civil rights organization, has been suspended for failing to turn over money to the national headquarters, the Free Press has learned.

Union United Church, led by Rev. Emmanuel Ofori, is launching a fundraising campaign to help it rebuild.

Discovering that her great-grandfather was a steamboat captain and connecting her family to historic Tombee Plantation are some of the more exciting things Rosalyn Browne has learned through her genealogical research.

Jim Pappas accused of making racial slur By Gregory Childress gchildress@heraldsun.com; 419-6645 Chapel Hill -- Jim Pappas, the athletic director and basketball coach at Cedar Ridge High School, has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation into charges that he made a racially offensive remark to a 15-year-old student.

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