Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Kara King, Assistant Managing Editor of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer, tendered her resignation to the publication’s editorial board Monday. The editors published a statement indicating they "greatly respect King’s courage in writing a letter to our community and appreciate her service to[Read More…]
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‘I Have A Dream’ Speech, In Its Entirety (Video and Text)
I Have a Dream Speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.[Read More…]
Audio: The ‘Post-Racial’ Conversation, One Year In
From NPR: With the election of President Obama, the phrase "post-racial" gained wider use. One year in to Obama’s term, Ralph Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road, and Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal define the term and the conversation around it. Audio is from[Read More…]
Notre Dame’s Observer Discontinues ‘Mobile Party’ Comic Which Featured Gay-Bashing Cartoon
Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Staff at the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer published a staff report Monday indicating that the Observer Editorial Board has discontinued the publication of the cartoon “The Mobile Party” following the submission and subsequent printing of the offensive Jan. 13 comic strip. According to[Read More…]
South Suburban Jackson Hewitt Lends-A-Hand
Steger, IL–(ENEWSPF)– This past holiday season, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service selected Algonquin Primary Center, Park Forest, as recipients of their “We Care-Outer Wear” program. The community outreach program provides winter hats and gloves for every student enrolled in the school. The program is one of several programs Jackson Hewitt established[Read More…]
Park Forest Idols Play To Full House At Freedom Hall
Kiana Mayes (center), winner of the 2010 Park Forest Idols talent competition. Deana Williams (left) placed third. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Photo Gallery: Park Forest Idols 2010 Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Kiana Mayes topped other talented individuals at Saturday’s Park Forest Idols. Singing and dancing in front of a standing-room-only audience in[Read More…]
BBB Warns Consumers Of Threats As Banks Raise Rates and Fees Providing Identity Theft Scam Opportunities
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Banks are increasing credit card rates and fees next month, an action many consumers have forgotten about because it was approved eight months ago. While consumers can shop around for a better rate there may be little they can do about the increases, other than be aware of[Read More…]
HRC Applauds D.C. Superior Court Decision Rejecting Anti-Marriage Equality Initiative for the Second Time
Lawsuit Brought by Anti-Marriage Equality Activists and Supported by 39 Republican Members of Congress Sought to Force an Initiative Banning Same-Sex Marriage in D.C. Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, applauded a D.C. Superior Court ruling that, for[Read More…]
NPR: Justice Department Intervenes In Gay Rights Suit (Audio and Text)
From NPR: For the first time in a decade, Justice Department lawyers have moved to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of a gay high school student who was beaten up for being effeminate. The case marks a novel interpretation of the Title IX statute, which prohibits discrimination against students[Read More…]
Notre Dame’s Observer Apologizes for Gay-Bashing Cartoon
South Bend, IN–(ENEWSPF)– From NBC Chicago: The independent student newspaper at the University of Notre Dame has published a staff editorial apologizing for a cartoon that made a joke about violence against gays. "What’s the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?" one character ask another in the[Read More…]
