by Stanley Augustin | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, presents a special time to reflect upon both the achievements and challenges women across the country continue to face. During this continued jobs crisis where African Americans/Blacks and Latinos/Hispanics continue to...
by Stanley Augustin | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As we usher in 2012, it remains disheartening that unemployment rates for African-Americans and Latinos/Hispanics remain in the double digits, largely unchanged since this time last year. Far more must be done to address disparities in...
by Stanley Augustin | Nov 24, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
“The right to vote and choose our leaders is at the heart of what it means to be American and participate in our democracy. Right now, state legislatures are actively trying to make it harder for certain segments of our citizenry to vote and have their voices...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 26, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
Forty-eight years ago, an iconic speech was delivered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, a speech enjoining Americans to hope for and create a truly integrated society of racial equality. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 5, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
by Joseph D. Rich Over the last century, residential segregation and isolation of African Americans have been intractable features of housing patterns in the United States and sadly, this segregation did not occur by accident. Rather, they are a product of a complex...