TheGrio.com
By Sophia A. Nelson
Posted September 2nd 2010
From the NAACP’s official website:
We are satisfied that on August 28 [at Restoring Honor Rally], there were few overt signs of racism — however, we remain committed to holding the Tea Party to their word. Our coalition watchdog website, TeaPartyTracker.org, will serve as evidence of this [...]

Newsnet5.com/WEWS_TV
Posted August 31st 2010
Cleveland schools CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders spoke Thursday at the opening of a new high school for 9th and 10th grade students.
New Tech will be housed on the campus of East Tech High School.
Part of the campus has been completely gutted to make way for a new 21st [...]

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by Dana Chivvis

Posted August 30th 2010
Nine states and the District of Columbia have been announced as the second-round winners in the federal Race to the Top competition. In March, Delaware and Tennessee won the first round of grants, leaving $3.4 billion of the $4.35 billion pot of grant money to be [...]

TheGrio.com
By Sandra Lilley
Posted August 30th 2010
Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding “no,” according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a “national crisis,” [...]

Associated Press
By Phillip Elliott
Posted August 27th 2010
WASHINGTON — Glenn Beck says it’s just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Civil rights veterans are skeptical.
“This is [...]

Associated Press
By Kimberly Dozier
Posted August 9th 2010
WASHINGTON (Aug. 9) — The United States has had three female secretaries of state – but until now has never had a woman lead one of its 16 major intelligence agencies.
Letitia A. Long is being elevated Monday to director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in [...]

MSNBC.msn.com
By Alex Johnson
Posted August 8th 2010
It’s too soon to know yet whether Flamy will show up next spring when Hempfield High School in Landisville, Pa., opens its softball season.
Flamy — a smiling electric, well, flame on blue legs — was there in April when the Black Knights took the field en route [...]

Associated Press
By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer
Posted August 5th 2010

WASHINGTON – Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers.
Some $10 billion in aid to [...]

mxoentertainment.com
By Ms. Osupa Nia
Posted August 4th 2010
Get ready Greater Cleveland a new art form may have been created right here on our Northcoast shores. NEON ON TOUR is proud to present ‘Poetic Motion’ this Friday, August 6th from 7p-9p at the First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland located at 3630 Fairmount Boulevard in Shaker [...]

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By Donna Kelso-Nelson
Posted August 2nd 2010
Do you wonder what our young people are doing – they are doing great things right here
in Cleveland.  “Poetic Motion” is a wonderful masterpiece featuring some of the finest dancers in our town from the Cleveland School of the [...]