Faith And The City e.Newsletter
September 16, 2008
Volume 7, Issue 9
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Faith and Politics
W. Deen Mohammed, 74, top U.S. imam, dies
By Douglas Martin
New York Times
September 10, 2008
Imam W. Deen Mohammed, a son of the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who renounced the black nationalism of his father’s movement to lead a more traditional and racially tolerant form of Islam for black Muslims, died on Tuesday in Chicago. He was 74.
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Education
Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky
By Mallory Simon
CNN
August 13, 2008
In Missouri in particular, a rash of student-teacher sexual relationships have spawned crackdowns on social-networking friendships.
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We're teaching books that don't stack up
By Nancy Schnog
Washington Post
August 24, 2008
We've shied away from discussing a most unfortunate culprit in the saga of diminishing teen reading: the high-school English classroom. As much as I hate to admit it, all too often it's English teachers like me -- as able and well-intentioned as we may be – who close down teen interest in reading.
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Social Environment
Interfaith gathering in Atlanta questions torture
Press Release
Mercer University
September 12, 2008
Speakers on the first day of the inaugural National Summit on Torture at Mercer University’s Atlanta campus Thursday told the more than 200 participants that “this summit affirms our values as Americans.”
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Disrespecting the disabled belittles us all
By Mary Yoder
For the Journal-Constitution
August 28, 2008
It is a reality that around 85 percent of women with developmental disabilities are victims of violence or sexual abuse in their lifetimes and that 32 percent of males will be victims.
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In a generation, minorities may be the U.S. majority
By Sam Roberts
New York Times
August 14, 2008
Ethnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the nation’s population in a little more than a generation, according to new Census Bureau projections, a transformation that is occurring faster than anticipated just a few years ago.
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Slavery in U.S. lingered long after Civil War
Leonard Pitts Jr.
For the Baltimore Sun
July 28, 2008
Mr. Blackmon says white men were openly buying and selling black men under this system until after World War II.
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Economic Disparity
Rich man’s burden
By Dalton Conley
New York Times
September 2, 2008
In other words, when we get a raise, instead of using that hard-won money to buy “the good life,” we feel even more pressure to work since the shadow costs of not working are all the greater.
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Events
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Nov. 8: “Annual Building Bridges Awards Dinner.” Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta. Keynote speaker, Dalia Mogahed, executive director of Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and co-author of “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think.”
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Additional Events: Visit the website of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta at http://www.rccatl.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=108
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