Falls Church, Virginia–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010 – 10:25 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. You guys look really cute in those chairs. (Laughter.) I am pleased to be joined today by my outstanding Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, at Graham Road Elementary School, one of Virginia’s finest schools. And here at Graham[Read More…]
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GALA ND/SMC Response to Hate Speech in Anti-Gay Observer Cartoon
Note: This past Tuesday, a gay-bashing comic strip ran in The Observer. You can see the comic that ran in the paper, as well as the one that was originally rejected and the hateful conversation that transpired, here. GALA ND/SMC’s official response is below. As officers of the Gay and[Read More…]
Notre Dame’s President Responds to Anti-Gay Observer Cartoon
Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The Jan. 13 issue of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer included a cartoon that was inappropriate and offensive. “The University denounces the implication that violence or expressions of hate toward any person or group of people is acceptable or a matter that should[Read More…]
Assistant Managing Editor of Notre Dame’s Observer Resigns Over Gay Cartoon Flap
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…]
IRC Deploys Emergency Team to Haitian Capital Devastated by Quake, Jan. 18, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–18 Jan 2010 – The International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Response Team is on the ground in Haiti, joining other rescue workers delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of Haitians in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter. On Sunday, the team visited 13 sites in the battered city[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders Teleconference on Haiti Earthquake, January 18, 2010
Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2010. Benoit Leduc, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations manager for Haiti, and Loris de Filippi, MSF operational coordinator in Port-au-Prince, participated in a teleconference with press regarding MSF’s response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Avril Benoit: Welcome to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières[Read More…]
United States Government Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response Update, January 18, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2010. On January 12, a massive earthquake struck the nation of Haiti, causing catastrophic damage inside and around the capital city of Port-au-Prince. President Obama has promised the people of Haiti that “you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten.” The United States Government has[Read More…]
State Briefing on Consular Services Being Provided to American Citizens in Haiti and in the United States in the Aftermath of the Earthquake, Jan. 18, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2010. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Overseas Citizens Services Michele T. Bond and Deputy Assistant Secretary For Visa Services David Donahue Via Teleconference OPERATOR: Welcome and thank you all for standing by. All participants will remain in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session. If you would like[Read More…]
‘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…]
