11.12.74 History Lesson Used Black Students as Slaves

noreply@blogger.com (ContentUTD) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:01:50 PST

By: EURweb.com

Parents and teachers at a North Carolina school are protesting a history lesson in which African-American students visiting a plantation with their class were told to pretend they were slaves as their white classmates looked on.

History Lesson Used Black Students as Slaves....

Health Care Bill Faces Senate Standstill

noreply@blogger.com (ContentUTD) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:53:26 PST

By: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

Health Care Bill Faces Senate Standstill....

Obama One Year Later: Tinkering We Can Believe In

noreply@blogger.com (ContentUTD) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:42:21 PST

By: Kai Wright-TheRoot.com

Before there were tea partiers, there were nurses. Angry nurses disrupting Sen. Max Baucus’ health care reform meetings back in the politically halcyon days of spring. Their complaint was simple: Democrats refused to even discuss proposals for single-payer, universal coverage. But unlike the deference that anti-reform zealots won this summer, all the nurses got for their trouble was jail time.

That’s because as far back as the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama began defining “reform” as something far more modest. The Obama campaign, Washington’s Democratic leadership and the progressive advocates who backed them agreed that Obama’s public plan—a competitive option inside the private insurance market—would be the face of reform. Everything more ambitious than that—like a single-payer plan—quickly became too radical to be taken seriously, while laughably cautious industry proposals defined the opposing boundary of compromise.

Obama One Year Later: Tinkering We Can Believe In....