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The state chapter of the NAACP says it will file a complaint against an eastern North Carolina school system alleging that its practices have hampered black students.

Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was the highest-paid university president during the 2007-08 academic year.

Professor Moshe had called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, (explanation of Joseph Moshe’s call at 06:00) broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a Joseph Moshe, MOSSADvaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death

With Michelle Obama in the White House, consciously and conspicuously serving as mom-in-chief , I expected a resurgence of Claire Huxtable images of black motherhood: effortless glamour, professional success, measured wit, firm guidance, loving partnership, and the calm reassurance that American women can, in fact, have it all. Instead the news is currently dominated by horrifying images of African American mothers. Most ubiquitous is the near universally celebrated performance of Mo'Nique in the new film Precious. Critically and popularly acclaimed Precious is the film adaption of the novel Push. It is the story of an illiterate, obese, dark-skinned, teenager who is pregnant, for the second time, with her rapist father's child. (Think The Color Purple in a 1980s inner-city rather than 1930s rural Georgia)

Four African-American undergraduates have won Rhodes Scholarships and will travel to Oxford University for study, according to a BlackAmericaWeb.com report.

A little girl who trembled in her house in York during race riots in 1969 has grown up to become the first black mayor of the central Pennsylvania city.Forty-five-year-old Kim Bracey is an energetic veteran of the struggling city's improvement efforts.

*As we keep saying, this Tiger Woods story keeps getting jucier and jucier by the moment. Here's the latest.

TMZ is reporting what we've been speculating all along ... that the dust up between Mr. and Mrs. Woods can probably be attributed to reports that he's got a side piece.

(Click over for more on that.)

They say argument got heated and, according to their source, she scratched his face up. It was then Woods retreated to his Cadillac SUV. Here's what else TMZ says about what happened next, according to their source:

"Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club.

We're told Woods became 'distracted,' thought the vehicle was stopped, and looked to see what had happened. At that point the SUV hit the fire hydrant and then hit a tree.

We're also told Woods had said during the conversation Friday he had been taking prescription pain medication for an injury, which could explain why he seemed somewhat out of it at the scene."

The kids are really looking forward to this. I expect it will be the same man that has played Santa for many years in the city riding in the parade. It is this expectation that made me think about the fact that my children have never seen a Black Santa. In fact, when I think of Santa I can only envision a White man because that is what has most popularly been portrayed.

While I want my child to see a Black Santa because they should grow up seeing images that reflect them, if it is not positive, if the images are encoded with all of the negative stereotypes that are attached to Black people, it will do more harm than good.

So many of the images that are positive in this culture are associated with Whiteness; even when the original legend or story involved a person of color. Jesus is the prime example of this. In early Christianity images were truer to what Jesus may have looked like because he was often drawn with darker skin. There is no way that Jesus was a White man with Blue eyes. Now we may say that it is not important what color he was because of the message that he came to earth to deliver but that can only be the case if we lived in a color blind world.

Matthew Salih, of Friendship, looks at eye-glass holders made of beads on sale at the Hope Square Building in the Hill District yesterday.

Black women get breast cancer at younger ages, but the new breast-cancer guidelines entirely ignore that fact. This is the very definition of institutionalized racism.

Published: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:49 p.m. There are a number of talented local residents who create stunning works of art.