INTERESTING WEB PAGES

1.
http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/
This website is a forum where African Americans can discuss the process of developing a Covenant – a quasi-Contract – that will delineate what issues are important to African Americans and how we want them remedied.

2. Pepper Site
http://www.peppersite.com/
The Phelps Stokes Fund, one of the oldest operating African-American foundations, has served people of color in America and Africa for 90 years.
Our new monthly newsletter is published collaboratively with The African-American ePinion Panel, an information service sponsored by Phelps Stokes. Peppersite is an interactive publication, designed to give and get information about education in human development.

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 The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
http://www.blackpanther.org/foundation.htm

The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation was founded in 1993 in Oakland, California, by David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton. Its purpose is to honor the legacy of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, effecting progressive social change by teaching practical lessons of community service. Beginning in the 1960s, the Black Panther Party pioneered free social service programs that now are in the mainstream of American life. The Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first sickle cell testing programs, and inspired the federal government's initial funding of sickle cell research. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for such children's programs nationwide. The Foundation is committed to enhancing community awareness of these and other contributions that have served the needs of America's most disempowered citizens. These contributions are the basis for the work that remains to be done to build a meaningful, inclusive society for all.

Judge John G. Roberts

Mr. Roberts graduated from Harvard College, summa cum laude, in 1976, and received his law degree, magna cum laude, in 1979 from the Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation he clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the following year for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Following his clerkship experience, Mr. Roberts served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General William French Smith. In that capacity he handled a broad range of constitutional and law enforcement issues for the Attorney General, dealing with state and local officials and representatives of foreign governments, as well as general counsel throughout the federal government. In 1982 President Reagan appointed Mr. Roberts to the White House Staff as Associate Counsel to the President, a position in which he served until joining Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. in 1986. Mr. Roberts' responsibilities as Associate Counsel to the President included counseling on the President's constitutional powers and responsibilities, as well as other legal issues affecting the executive branch.

A day after President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, black activists Wednesday questioned Roberts' commitment to civil rights and expressed concern that the nation's highest court could shift dramatically to the right.

Civil rights activists say the Supreme Court has a history of deciding by narrow margins many important cases that deeply affect all minorities. Its decisions can determine U.S. policy on workers' rights, affirmative action, voting rights and education. Given the close split on the high court between moderates and conservatives, some say, the next Supreme Court Justice -- perhaps Roberts -- will alter the ideological direction of the country for years to come.

Roberts, 50, has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since June 2003 after being picked for that seat by Bush. In the early 1980s, Roberts was also a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. The millionaire judge graduated Harvard Law School and has worked for the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, one of the nation's most prestigious firms.
Last October, while serving on the D.C. court, Roberts voted with two colleagues to uphold the arrest and detention of a 12-year-old girl for eating french fries at a D.C. Metro station, though his opinion noted, "No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation."

Roberts upheld the constitutionality of Ansche Hedgepeth's arrest. The black youngster from D.C. was handcuffed and arrested by D.C. Metro Transit Police and the incident drew national attention. Roberts wrote that Hedgepeth was searched, booked, fingerprinted and detained in a juvenile center, "all for eating a single french fry in a Metrorail station."

Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the caucus will closely evaluate Roberts' record on issues of particular importance to black Americans