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Evanston/Skokie District 65 officials will vote Monday night on whether to launch an African-centered curriculum at two elementary schools where almost half the pupils are black. The proposal for the pilot project has been controversial because some parents say it would segregate children by race. Supporters, however, maintain that the program could help close the achievement gap between white and black pupils. Most of the seven board members declined to speak on the record about the issue or how they planned to vote at Monday's meeting. "It will likely result in single-race classrooms in a city that has a long...

WACO, Texas (ABP) -- Christians undermine their ability to reach society with the gospel because they segregate their churches by race, sociologist/author George Yancey told participants in a workshop aimed at racial reconciliation. Yancey, assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Texas and author of several books, including Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility, presented two keynote speeches at “Becoming a Racially Reconciled Church and Community.” Mission Waco, an inner-city ministry in Waco, sponsored the event. About 150 participants, including pastors, college and seminary students, professors, lay church leaders and recipients of Mission Waco’s ministry, attended the conference....

An infant school in Amsterdam east has Dutch and immigrant children under one roof, but there is no sign of integration. Black and white each have their own seperate door. Two entrances to the school building in the harbour area of Amsterdam east. Through one door you have Achmed, Mohammed, Samir, and Aziz, through the other door thirty metres along you have Jan, Piet, Johan and Nico.

Segregation And Racial groups Blogged under Social Commentary by Chance on Thursday 19 January 2006 at Segregation And Racial groups By Chance, ChancellorfilesChance: Among humans there are different levels of morality some humans have a higher moral standard than others. Some people don’t have a problem murdering, raping, robbing, engaging in treachery, unprovoked violence, and engaging in many other negative anti-social behaviors that causes fear to spread in society. Therefore I say that there are certain people among every racial and ethnic group who need to be segregated from the rest of society. Because they are too immoral in their...

Almost half of San Francisco's public schools are "severely resegregated," and the picture could grow worse due to inertia and political stalemates, according to a new report issued by a state-appointed monitor. The city's school district, once one of the most integrated urban districts in the country, now is on a reverse slide, with 50 of its 119 schools severely resegregated, the report says. That number is up from 30 four years ago. Schools fit into the resegregated category if any one racial group makes up 60 percent or more of any one grade level. Many of the 50 schools...

Calif. prisons to end race-based policy Tue Dec 20, 6:47 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's prison system will no longer divide inmates by race, a practice in effect for more than 20 years and intended to limit gang violence, a spokeswoman for the system said on Tuesday. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had routinely segregated inmates by race on their arrival at prison, a practice challenged by a prisoner in a federal discrimination lawsuit. The department has settled the challenge and has agreed to no longer use race as the sole factor in deciding how to...

Successfully segregated? The nearly all-black schools on North Ave. try to close the gap By ALAN J. BORSUKaborsuk@journalsentinel.com Posted: Dec. 12, 2005 Third of three partsJonathan Kozol was disparaging suggestions that he help develop, as he put it, "seven ways to run a higher scoring segregated school." North Avenue: Main Street Of School Reform Photo/Rick WoodLawrence Thomas, a student in Mary Jo Danek’s class, smiles as his teacher reads a story at Frances Starms Early Childhood Center. Quotable I believe in the relentless pursuit of excellence. Education and success are my birthright. - Creed recited daily by students at Milwaukee...

Chicago plans high school for black males CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Chicago school district plans to open an all-boys high school primarily for black teenagers. The Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men must be approved by the Board of Education this month, the Chicago Tribune reported. Mayor Richard Daley plans to open 100 schools in the city in the next five years. Plans for the next two years include a virtual elementary school, a high school operated by the University of Chicago and a high school stressing business entrepreneurship. Urban Prep would be located inside Englewood High...

Rosa Park's legacy should not be compromised by civil rights leaders By Kevin Fobbs What Detroit and the nation saw with the funeral of civil rights legend Rosa Parks was not a celebration of her sainted effort to sit down for the freedom of generations to follow, but a marathon of speeches which were tied more to an agenda of liberal politics and causes than to the very simple, very heroic and very noble act which launched a civil rights revolution. I was perplexed by the length as much as I was mystified by many of the messages which were...

<p>Jonathan Kozol, a former Boston schoolteacher, has written 11 books over four decades in a crusade to help inner-city children that government policymakers gently label "disadvantaged."</p> <p>In "Shame," Kozol, 69, denounces the No Child Left Behind education law that President Bush pushed through Congress...</p>

It was puzzling for the mostly African-American guests at Camp Williams – who had been evacuated from a destroyed New Orleans to Utah – to suddenly see a rabbi with a yarmulke about to address them in their temporary military home. It was even stranger for them to suddenly recognize that that rabbi was the radio host whom the Utah papers had been reporting all week had lost his radio show after using his program to stage an event that would assist the evacuees to find permanent homes in the white, middle-class neighborhoods that Mormon Utah is famous for. And...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) About 400 alumni and supporters of Hawaii's Kamehameha Schools rallied in San Francisco on Saturday to protest a recent court ruling that struck down the schools' policy of giving admissions preference to students of native Hawaiian ancestry. Donning red and black T-shirts reading ``Ku I Ka Pono,'' or Justice for Hawaiians, the protesters marched past the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, home to the three-judge panel that handed down the ruling. In its 2-1 ruling, the appeals court said on Aug. 2 that the schools' Hawaiians-first admissions policy violates federal anti-discrimination laws. ``We will not we...

Native Hawaiians Seek Self-governing Body NPR Transcript, Aug. 16, 2005 By National Public Radio, 8/17/2005 8:22:38 AM Editor's Note: Here is the complete National Public Radio transcript from Aug. 16, 2005 with Anchor Steve Inskeep, Reporter Martin Kaste and various guests. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. Congress is considering legislation that would give native Hawaiians their own government. It would essentially grant them political status similar to that of Native American tribes. Here's NPR's Martin Kaste. (Soundbite of surf; birds) MARTIN KASTE reporting: You'll find no more potent symbol of Hawaiian independence than 'Iolani Palace,...

"This is an education flee. They're running to get an education. It's not about race or color," said Tim Johnson, a 1985 graduate of Hearne High, whose 13-year-old son attends Mumford. "I feel sorry for the kids that are (at Hearne) and cannot get out and go somewhere else.""It was awful," said Reed, adding that teachers were starting to organize to home-school children who didn't want to attend Hearne schools.MUMFORD - About 70 white students were turned away from their schools here for two days this week as their parents, school administrators and civil rights attorneys fought the latest round...

Appeals Court Strikes Down Hawaiians-Only Admissions Policy at Kamehameha Schools The Associated Press Published: Aug 2, 2005 HONOLULU (AP) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down the exclusive Kamehameha Schools' policy of admitting only native Hawaiians. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the practice at the private school violates a federal law against racial discrimination in the making and enforcing of contracts. The case was brought by an unidentified non-Hawaiian student who was turned down for admission in 2003. The Kamehameha Schools were established under the 1884 will of a Hawaiian princess to...

Funny thing came to my mind just recently, With all of those stories on Free Republic on how the world hates us and all that? I wonder if someday the world will gang up on the U.S. A old quote I remember my pricipal saying when I was in school was "Whatever bad things you do, Will come back to you harder" and it seems after couple of centuries of bringing hatred, segregation and so on to the world. The world may have had enough, The French hate us, The Muslims, The Chinese, The Russians, Part of South Asia, Cuba,...

Richard McElrath and his sister, Natheley McElrath, at a community forum in West Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Michael Falco) RACE AND IMMIGRATION Pressed by a New Invasion of Yankees, Schools of the New South Resegregate BY Jonathan Tilove   CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Jane Henderson's voice trembled as she implored the school board not to let Charlotte-Mecklenburg's schools resegregate any more than they already have.     Jack Heilpern, wife Mary, son James, 17, and daughter Jennifer (on stairs), 12, in the foyer of their Huntersville, N.C., home. James, a high school junior, and a fellow student started a movement...

Howard Dean’s Revisionist History By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal (Perry and Warner Robins, GA) 06/15/2005 I had a good laugh last week when Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, declared that the Republican Party was made up of White Christians. Unless it’s a crime to be Caucasian and Christian in this country, I am pretty sure Howard Dean is barking up the wrong true in his stated campaign to, among other things, take back the south for the Democratic party. Unfortunately for Dean, both political parties have very diversified electorates, as Chairman Dean is, no doubt,...

During a discussion with minority leaders and journalists on Monday, Howard Dean declared that Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all believe the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.” He further stated that “the Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people” and Democrats are “more welcoming to different folks, because that’s the type of people we are.” Dean continued to defend his remarks as recently as Thursday. Dean’s comments clearly suggest that the GOP is, if not hostile to a demographic broader than white Christians, at least cool toward...

A new Islamic advocacy group in Boca Raton is under scrutiny for its ties to William W. Baker, a former chairman of the neo-Nazi political party of presidential candidate David Duke who was run out of town last year when he attempted to speak at Florida Atlantic University. Local Jewish and civic leaders said Friday they were alarmed that the Assadiq Islamic Education Foundation, whose headquarters are listed at 831 E. Palmetto Park Road in Boca, had invited Baker back to Boca as featured speaker at an April 30 banquet at the Boca Marriott. Invited by Muslim students to speak...