Paula Chase

Jul 31 2009

Paula Chase

What do you do about The Mean Girl in school?

You know who she is. She’s the one who can’t walk past anybody without sneering and snarling some insult. She thinks she’s all that and she never lets anybody forget it. With just a halfway look, she can stick a knife in your back and twist it til you almost drop.

You know who she is. Every school has one.

Or two. Or five.

Apr 30 2009

by Paula Chase

How long have you had your BFF?

If you’ve always gone to the same school, maybe you’ve been best friends since kindergarten.
Perhaps you found ya girl because your lockers were next to one another or because she said something hilarious in English class and you had to meet her. Or maybe you met when you were babies because your mothers were BFFs, too.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.