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"There are African American men all over the country with skills, and with passion, that can serve these boys in so many capacities that they don't even know," King says. "It makes a huge difference because [the students] are able to be comfortable with themselves, they're able to see what they'll become one day, and if those images are positive, it raises their self identity to another level."
Of Black males who make it to an HBCU, only 29 percent will graduate within six years, which is worse than the 33 percent national average of black males at all colleges. Nationally, the six-year graduation rate is 57 percent.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Black Male Teachers Are Becoming Extinct in America; Black Women Greatly Outnumber Black Men at HBCU's; New Jim Crow Social Justice Movement Heads to Nebraska; Only 4% of U.S. College Students Are Black Males
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National Memo: How Fragile Is Obama's Lead?
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The Big Story, By E.J. Dionne If the election were held right now, President Obama would likely win by about the same margin that propelled him into office in 2008. But how fragile are his current advantages? READ MORE | ||||||
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Featured Column: Leonard Pitts Jr. Do you watch "Mad Men"? If so, you know that one of the things that drama about a 1960s advertising agency does best is transport you back to the days when women still were "gals." We think we remember what that was like. We use words like "sexist" and "paternalistic" to describe it. When Rick Santorum's Super PAC sugar daddy Foster Friess describes how things were "back in my days," it is worth remembering that those are the days he is referring to. READ MORE | ||||||
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GOP Primary Rick Santorum has begun to call out Ron Paul and Mitt Romney for their bizarre alliance in the Republican presidential primary as he seeks to unite the broad majority of his party that has rejected Romney's suspect politics for something more pure (and fiery). "We need to go out and say we don't need the Ron Paul faction and the moderate establishment teaming up to attack the real conservative in this race," he complained. READ MORE | ||||||
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Around The World The U.S. and its allies dismissed the Syrian regime's referendum on a new constitution Sunday as a "farce" meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent. But voters in government strongholds suggested why some Syrians have not joined the uprising against President Bashar Assad: Loyalty, distrust of the opposition, and fear his fall will ignite a civil war. READ MORE | ||||||
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My Front Pages, By Joe Conason Seeking applause from a right-wing audience in Michigan, Mitt Romney vowed on Saturday: "I will cut spending, I will cap spending and I will finally balance the budget," saying that he will end federal funding for all the usual Republican budgetary scapegoats -- the Public Broadcasting System, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But Romney must think the Tea Party "conservatives" he is courting are very stupid indeed, if he's promising to balance the federal budget by eliminating the miniscule amounts spent on the nation's cultural programs. As the former businessman and governor certainly knows, his numbers -- including the massive tax cuts and defense increases -- simply don't balance, ever. READ MORE | ||||||
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Pop Culture "The Artist" won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. READ MORE | ||||||
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Christian Research Institute and the Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraaff
Christian Research Institute and the Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraaff:
Do you want some real truth? Check out the Bible Answer Man
Do you want some real truth? Check out the Bible Answer Man
National Memo: Jonathan Alter On Romney's Bankruptcy
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The Big Story, By Jonathan Alter By all accounts, Mitt Romney is a smart businessman with a sophisticated understanding of how economies work. So why is he so tied up in knots over basic questions of government spending in a recession and the limits of the free market? Because he's running for president in a party that has lost its economic common sense, its political bearings, and probably Michigan's electoral votes. READ MORE | ||||||
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Featured Column: Jonathan Weil Two years ago, Citigroup Inc. embarked on one of those feel-good corporate-image campaigns, aimed at showing a skeptical public that it could be trusted again. Citigroup was a "fundamentally different" company from what it had been during the financial crisis, it promised, a mantra its executives have repeated ever since. Oh, well. READ MORE | ||||||
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Law Republicans have kept up a steady drumbeat of obstruction to Barack Obama's judicial nominees, and nowhere is the problem more glaring than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a key institution that hears major cases challenging environmental and civil right regulations. Obama could be the first president in decades not to get a single nominee on this Court -- thanks mostly to Republican fear that anyone confirmed will soon become a Supreme Court nominee. READ MORE | ||||||
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Art You Can No Longer Believe In Shephard Fairey, the illustrator whose iconic portrayal of Obama made him perhaps the only artist to achieve massive fame because of a piece of campaign swag, acknowledged stealing the photo without credit and then lying about it in the middle of a legal fight. And George Clooney is (sort of) involved, too. READ MORE | ||||||
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Godbothering Rick Santorum's wife, Karen, made headlines on Thursday when she told conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that it was "God's will" that her husband runs for President. But Santorum is not the only Republican candidate who God has allegedly prodded into running for Higher office. READ MORE | ||||||
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Around The World U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton blasted Russia and China as "despicable" for opposing U.N. action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, as more than 60 nations began planning a civilian peacekeeping mission when the Damascus regime halts its crackdown on the opposition. In his most forceful words to date on the Syrian crisis, President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies would use "every tool available" to end the bloodshed. READ MORE | ||||||
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Election 2012 Political satirist Bill Maher announced during a Yahoo-webcast special that he will give $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a super political action committee backing the president. Even as he made the sizeable pledge, Maher mocked the committee's "tongue-twister name," joking that it was dreamed up by Borat, the English-addled Eastern European comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen. READ MORE | ||||||
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