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By Jacqueline Domac Yakima County, Washington, prosecutors filed felony charges against five youth accused in the killing and maiming of 35 pigs at White Swan High School recently. Reports indicate that the pigs were repeatedly axed, beaten, sodomized and then left to die in the school barn. The five students involved, all aged 12 Read More… Public Schools Are No Place For FFA Animal Programs The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and several individual plaintiffs filed federal civil rights class action lawsuits on May 26th against four Myrtle Beach area restaurants. They include Damon's Grill, Greg Norman's Australian Grill, J. Edward's Great Ribs & More and Fleming's. The restaurants are accused of closing over Memorial Read More… Four Myrtle Beach Area Restaurants Sued For Discrimination Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop.
Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said he was pleased to learn of the U.S. Department of Justice's decision to reopen its investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Mfume said: "Clearly, for those of us who over the years have remained convinced Read More… NAACP Commends Justice Department Decision To Reopen Emmett Till Case Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) hailed the Georgia Supreme Court decision in the Marcus Dixon case in which it overturned the high school student's 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex with a younger classmate. "We are elated that the Court has Read More… NAACP Hails Georgia Supreme Court Decision To Overturn The Marcus Dixon Conviction Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said the NAACP welcomed the decision by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store to enter into an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to stop discrimination at its restaurants against African American customers and employees, but said the next step Read More… NAACP Welcomes DOJ Complaint Against Cracker Barrel By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Eighty-four-year-old Charles Butler, Sr., of Washington, D.C., didn't make this year's list of the 100 most influential people in the world Time Magazine splashed impressively across nearly four-score pages of a recent special issue. Nor did he make this year's list of the Read More… The Complexity of Black Achievement Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League As I'm sure many Americans were, I was astonished—and happy—last week to read of the extraordinary contribution that Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., pledged to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education. Fletcher, a 1987 Harvard graduate Read More… Buddy Fletcher’s Gift A coalition of conservation organizations – Environmental Defense, Montana Environmental Information Center, National Parks Conservation Association, and the National Wildlife Federation – filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) over its failure to minimize the air pollution impacts of a massive development that will harm public health and cloak more than The film The Day After Tomorrow was recently released. It depicts Earth in the very near future coping with the disastrous impacts of global climate change. While the movie is entertaining fiction, global warming is a fact, and its impacts can be seen happening now. People either accept this reality and are working toward Read More… Summer Film Shows Difference Between Science Fiction & Science Fact |
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