FIRST-PERSON: America! Out of Africa?
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--President Bush's recent trip to sub-Saharan Africa has brought renewed interest to the region. Bush's trip to the continent shows leadership and humanity for his commitment to fight the AIDS pandemic in that region.
FIRST-PERSON: What should we do with affirmative action?
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--The 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education altered forever the course of education in the United States. The decision nearly a half-century ago insured race as a valid method by which to justify leveling the field of equal access for African Americans into the mainstreams of the educational processes of the country.
FIRST-PERSON: Hope in Romania & Moldova: antidote for human despair
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--More than a decade after the fall of the brutal 45-year dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania has only just begun its recovery to democratization. Life there is harsh and spare of prosperity for the masses of people; most lack all material comforts. With few jobs and a very poor infrastructure, life crawls along at a pioneering pace.
FIRST-PERSON: A relevant ‘Whaz up?’ from Bernice King
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--On May 2, hundreds of students from several West Palm Beach-area schools gathered in the gymnasium of King's Academy to commemorate the National Day of Prayer. They were there also to listen to the day's keynote speaker, Bernice King.
FIRST-PERSON: In war, service transcends race
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--In the United States, there is no want of loyal servants when, in any capacity, they are needed. The United States Armed Forces is the spectacular cross-section of Americans who are willing to serve their country, and to the nth degree if necessary.
FIRST-PERSON: Balancing protest & patriotism
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--The Constitution of the United States is the most thoroughgoing treatise on human rights in the history of modern civilization. Within it, citizens of the country are guaranteed "certain inalienable rights." Among these are the right to free speech and the right of lawful assembly.
FIRST-PERSON: AIDS crisis in Africa meets compassionate conservatism
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Africa is the continent that has suffered the blunt force of the AIDS pandemic. Hardest hit with disease are the women and children of Africa. Finally, the "compassionate conservatism" of President George Bush will lead the international community in funding initiatives which hopefully will bring relief to all in the continent who suffer from AIDS.
FIRST-PERSON: Race, religion & politics: America’s great controversies
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Politics, race and religion are woven so deeply into the fabric of American life that they sometimes make telling, but strange bedfellows. They reign as America's great controversies. How strange they are can be understood just a little when gauged by the scope of national reaction to former Senate majority leader Trent Lott's recent nostalgic comments in praise of the rigid 1948 segregationist presidential platform of retired centenarian Strom Thurmond.
FIRST-PERSON: Will the real Islam please stand up
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--While much of the world threatens to be engulfed in the terror of Islamic wrath, there has not been a single Islamic voice of reason to emerge in the midst of its wreckage and carnage to tell the world fully who or what the real Islam is.
FIRST-PERSON: Searching, post-Sept. 11, for the American dream
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP)--Recently, when 235 Haitian immigrants risked their lives to cross the Florida Straits in search of freedom, justice, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, America, for these reasons, and for reasons of proximity, was the logical place of their destination.
