It’s 6:15 pm and news has spread that Michael Jackson has passed away. I’m still in the newsroom, getting ready to leave. Everyone is running around frantic, debating if they should broadcast the news because TMZ..a celebrity gossip blog..seems to be the only one confirming it.
So it didn’t hit me because [...]
June 26, 2009
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By Stephanie Claytor
Cleveland Heights——Most 14 -year- olds are just happy to be entering high school, a stepping stone in life that involves more freedom, new friends and Friday night football games. But, Alexis Crayton, of Cleveland Heights, chose a different route.
Crayton is headed to Dana Hall, a boarding school in Wellsley, Massachusetts. And she is [...]
June 19, 2009
Categories: African American, Afro-Latino, Uncategorized . Tags: boarding school, Cleveland Heights, dana hall, high school, twin, twins . Author: blacktinos . Comments: Leave a Comment
President Obama toured Buchenwald with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in effort to remember the lives of so many who died at the hands of a destructive sick mankind as well as to honor the courage and resistance of those who survived.
“We reflect on the human capacity [...]
June 5, 2009
Categories: African American, Afro-Latino, Uncategorized . Tags: Barack Obama, germany, holocaust, wiesel . Author: blacktinos . Comments: Leave a Comment