Author Archive for Juontel White
New Leadership for LAUSD
Budget cuts, outdated textbooks and dangerously high high school drop-out rates are just some of the reasons why Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed a restructuring of Los Angeles Unified schools.
Racism Confronted in NY
‘Some people are racist, and you just have to deal with it’ is the attitude that Suffolk County police seem to have. On Jan. 31, a Riverhead school district in New York charged three Caucasian high school students with hate crimes. County and police officials lowered the charges to second-degree harassment, for which the maximum [...]
The World is ‘Black. White.’
‘Everybody ain’t a stereotype, just because I look wrong I’m about to do right!’ If the new television series ‘Black.White.’ had a motto, this would be it.
Coretta Scott King’s Contributions to American Liberty
A pioneer of the American civil rights movement, Coretta Scott King, died at the age of 78 on Jan. 30. As wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she was not a quiet woman who fit the 1950s ideal of a dedicated and subservient housewife.
