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NAACP chapter installs its first white president (Aiken Standard) When Philip Howell was installed as the Aiken Branch NAACP president by his good friend, Nelson Rivers Jr., Tuesday, he downplayed that he is the first white person to head the organization. 
Attack on the middle class (The Phoenix) The remarkable thing about the American middle class is that we still have one, given the job losses, housing bust, and 401 wipeout of the past three years a ' and considering that for 35 years, politicians have been hammering away at middle-class institutions. 
African-American News - January 6, 2011
Tom Burlington: The jury will have to decide if he was a 'victim of political correctness run amok' or a victim of 'his own poor judgment' The question of whether it is acceptable for an African-American person to use the 'n' word in a workplace but not a white person is to be decided by a federal jury.
State historians find more errors in textbooks (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
The fourth grade Virginia history text 'Our Virginia Past & Present' has been redacted due to a dispute over weather African slaves fought on the side on the Confederacy. African-American News a " January 5, 2011 (All Bronx News, All the Time!)
January 5, 2011 California is cutting preventable hospitalizations California is doing a better job at cutting the number of unnecessary hospitalizations, but members of some minority groups, particularly African Americans, are still being hospitalized too often, according to recently released state reports that cite lack of access to regular ... N.J. Test scores reveal achievement gaps (NorthJersey)
The state has released standardized test results today. New Jersey's achievement gaps remained stubbornly wide last year, starting with the earliest round of statewide test scores in third grade. NAACP head to speak to Scotland youth council (The Laurinburg Exchange Online)
A three day seminar will be held at several locations in Laurinburg next week as part of the 2011 Dr. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia got lots of attention over the last two days for an interview with California Lawyer in which he insists the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, with its promise of "equal protection" for all citizens, doesn't apply to women.
Conversations with a Student-Teacher of Color (womanist-musings)
I believe that white people, especially young white students need this social justice work more than ever. I am not sure if I should be the one doing it (but someone has got to do it). That is why I am often perplexed when I hear the majority of white teachers seeking to go out and teach poor black and Hispanic youth. I have seen many "well intentioned" white teachers carrying a sentiment that this population is the source of the problem. As a teacher I have seen that white supremacist thinking must be liberated from itself and if people (especially white people) are looking for a place to start, please start at home and you may find you have your work cut out for you. It has been no easy task working with my students. However, some of the greatest teaching moments I have had, have come out of them spitting out their fears and contradictions. The list of their responses follows: * "Well we don't want to be bad people. We're not all bad." * "Didn't black people have slaves too?" * "Well Obama is president. He's like the most powerful man in the country." * "Well blacks had a hand in their own oppression too. It wasn't all white." * "Well I feel so guilty, so insignificant" * "Well why should I feel responsible, its not as if I have any power!" * "Well, change takes time but things have progressed." * "It just sounds like complaining." * "Well people of color can be racist too?!" * "Well why should we hate people because they're rich? Don't they obviously have to work hard for their money to get it?" * "Well if things were to really change, then what would happen to us?" These are all statements that at one point in time my students have blurted out. We have had to work through these thoughts together, to get to a place where we could learn and struggle forward. I wasn't very surprised to hear these sentiments (I mean seriously, these thoughts are quite dominant and have become ways to stop a thorough analysis of our reality). In fact, I was thankful that they had the courage to spit out their largely white-class privileged (or internalized white class privileged thinking) fears and attempt to challenge it. This is something I find many adults won't even do. Mentoring programs in Dallas, Irving schools aim to give boost to young black males (The Dallas Morning News)
Carter High sophomore Jermal Burrell gets guidance, mentoring and more from the Man Up program. 
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