A national civil rights group wants a Pontiac charter school to give a teacher her job back after she was fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for Trayvon Martin’s family. Officials at the Pontiac Academy for Excellence are denying the charges, which were made in a press release issued yesterday by the Southern Poverty [...]

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Google has decided to commemorate the historic day when Rosa Parks refused to obey the commands of a bus driver who told her to give up her seat for a white passenger. It was on that day 55 years ago that the world changed forever.  Although Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to take such [...]

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“Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground!” If you’re not walking around singing it, you probably will be soon.  That’s part of the chorus to “Pants on the Ground,” an original song performed by General Larry Platt on Wednesday’s American Idol auditions from Atlanta. Platt, 62, was a little too old to [...]

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