Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.
If you’ve heard that a college degree is the new high school diploma, you’re not alone. According to the United States Department of Labor news release from 2007, 67.2 percent of high school graduates went on to attend two- or four-year college programs. That’s 11.3 million American youth – your peers – a portion of whom will leave college with the same degree you’ve earned, looking for the same job you want.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for the March 21 concert at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis featuring Lil’ Wayne, T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson, according to a Live Nation press release.
When senior Molly Gabbard realized there was a lot she didn’t know about finding a job in the arts, she decided to do something about it.She created Making Art Work, a free symposium about careers in the arts.
At 100 years old, World War II veteran, former general store owner, husband, grandfather and nature lover John Schoolman has seen and accomplished countless things. But being featured in ArtsWeek this year is a first for him.Schoolman will be one of the artists featured in ArtsWeek 2009. His personal and political expressive canes and walking sticks will be on display at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., until March 8.
In your article concerning the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (“NAACP celebrates centennial anniversary,” Feb. 12), you mistakenly stated that the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. The National Rifle Association (founded Nov. 17, 1871) is in fact the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
Too many people today only go to daily newspapers or nightly broadcasts for their news. Regardless of whether or not that source adequately explains some current event, by the time the broadcast is up or the article is read we move on to prime-time programming or watch the Star Wars kid on YouTube one more time, our curiosities apparently satisfied.
A local man was arrested for child molestation after his alleged actions were reported to police Feb. 12.
A fight between lovers sent one to the hospital and one to jail.
Angie Morgan, a third-grade teacher in Hamilton Southeastern Schools in Indiana, was once put in a choke hold by one of her students.
What would have been a small fender-bender at a stop sign turned into a police chase near Kirkwood Avenue.
Troy Anthony Davis has been on death row for 18 years following his conviction of the 1989 murder of a police officer in Savannah, Ga. His execution has been scheduled and rescheduled three separate times, and once, the order for a stay of execution came mere hours before it was to be carried out.
The Indiana Geographic Information Council hosted its annual conference in the Bloomington-Monroe County Convention Center on Tuesday and Wednesday. The event featured new geologic products and technologies from companies around the nation.
It is time for some major events this week on TV. Look for two non-TV show programs to dominate the week: the 81st Academy Awards and President Barack Obama’s address to Congress. One will be exciting and informative, and one will be boring and depressing. At this point, it’s unclear which is which.
She is one of the most talented female singers in the music business: Unlike most other female rap stars, Missy Elliott writes her own songs in addition to performing them. Her new album “Block Party” is less poppy and more serious than her previous efforts.
Nightmares, creaky doors and little ghost children. Though chock-full of such cliches, this horror film steers through enough twists and turns to prevent it from being overly predictable.
Rock supergroups are usually bad ideas. They can be panned for smelling of desperation or fall apart because egos override the music.
There are inklings of similarities between “The Pink Panther 2” and the classic work of Peter Sellers. But after 2006’s “The Pink Panther,” the fact that Steve Martin makes a terrible Inspector Clouseau is no more a mystery to the producers than it is to us.
