Police Shoot And Kill Unarmed, Handcuffed Black Man In Back

As a group of young men questioned why they were being detained on an Oakland, CA train platform, and grew irate when they saw a transit officer manhandle one of their friends, Oscar Grant tried to reassure them everything was going to be OK."'Just be cool,'" Jackie Bryson recalled Grant saying to him. "'We are going home tonight.'"Grant, 22, never made it home. He was shot and killed by officer Johannes...

Top 200 Jobs Based On Top Salary Earned

The 200 jobs are listed based on the average top salary earned for the position. The list starts out with the job paying the highest amount (Surgeons) and ends with the position which pays the lowest amount (Dishwasher). The list does not include celebrity and professional athlete jobs like actors, baseball players, singers, etc....

200 Jobs Organized by Top Salary 1

The 200 jobs are listed based on the average top salary for the position. The list starts out with the job paying the lowest amount (Dishwasher) and ends with the position which pays the highest amount (Surgeon)....

Historic Picture Of Slave Children For Sale Found In Attic

This photograph of two slave children and an accompanying document were purchased at a garage sale in Charlotte, North Carolina.This photograph is rare because so many photos of slaves showed them in submissive positions, illustrating the brutality of their condition, and some even showing the scars on their backs from whippings.One thing is for sure about this photograph. It does not show a hint...

Wake Up! Stats About Black Males

It should be easy to understand why many people believe that the more things change for blacks in America, the more things stay the same. It will be a good day in America when blacks do not fare the worst or toward the bottom in categories such as education, housing, health care, incarceration, income, and employment. The statistics on black males below are staggering. On another note, black women who are more reluctant to date and marry outside of their race than women of other races do not have...

Marriage And Divorce In America - In Black And White

Marriage and divorce in America are statistics that are almost impossible to find based on race. Interestingly, marriage and divorce are not two categories where blacks are always on the bottom and whites are on the top. Since marriage in some states is as young as 15 years old, the U.S. Census calculates the marriage and divorce data below based on people in the U.S. who are 15 years old or older. The numbers are below are from the U.S. Census Bureau SIPP, 2004 Panel. The results below show percentages...

Mystery Man Wins S.C. Democratic Senate Primary

This is history in the making. A brother named Alvin Green actually ran in the Democratic Senate primary without making his identity known during the campaign. He is an unemployed military veteran who did not set up a campaign website or raise funds for his campaign. Alvin Green spent 13 years in the Air Force and Army before leaving the Army in August.Green could not explain his win against a four...

Surgery For Back Pain Rarely Cures

The shocking question came from a respected spine surgeon tracked down by Keith Swenson, who was still in severe pain after an earlier back operation.He didn't know what to believe. Two other surgeons had urged more operations, different ones.And Swenson, who's from Howard Lake, Minn., is far from alone. Even though only a fraction of people with back pain are good candidates for surgery, complicated spine operations are on the rise.So is the hunt for any relief.By one recent estimate, Americans...

Marrying Between Races - See The Numbers

In 1967,the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage. A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the U.S. in 2008 were between people of different races or ethnicity. The percentage was 6.7% in 1980 according to a Pew Research Study. It took nearly 28 years for intermarriages of newlyweds to double. Rate of increase from 1980 thu 2008 of intermarriages as a group.Blacks - tripled Whites - doubled Asians - the same Latinos - the same Percentage of Asians, Blacks, Hispanics,...

Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten Faces Of Mural - UPDATE

An elementary school in Arizona called Miller Valley Elementary School hired artists to work on a school mural. The mural project caused a lot of racial controversy as well as a racial debate. The “Go on Green” mural covers two walls outside Miller Valley Elementary School, and it aims to advertise a campaign for environmentally friendly transportation. It features portraits of four children, and...

Police Punished For Stopping Doctor En Route To Hospital For Delivery Of Baby

Two Pulaski, TN Police officers involved with the arrest of Doctor Terry Wynn on May 5 have been suspended without pay."Simply put, they did not weigh the actions of Doctor Wynn versus the immediate medical attention that was needed for her patient," Police Chief John Dickey told the Board of Mayor and Alderman.The City of Pulaski called in an outside law firm to investigate the arrest. According...

Defendant Miranda Rights Eroded

The Supreme Court by the typical 5 to 4 vote with the same justices usually falling into the same camp deciding that a suspect will now have to clearly declare that he wants to remain silent and cannot simply be silent during questioning.The court addressed what happens when a suspect declines to answer hours of questions, then makes a potentially incriminating statement and later says he had wanted to remain silent and that his statement was not made freely.With the new ruling, a suspect must be...