“Homeschooling for Black Families”
Read an article from the January/February 2007 issue of Mothering magazine posted at Cafemom.com about black families who choose to homeschool.
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“Giving Proper Credit to Home-Schooled”
Read a June 11, 2007, Washington Post article about the successes of homeschooling.
“Families keep homeschooling despite tough times”
Read an Associated Press story posted March 4, 2009, at USAToday.com about homeschooling during the economic downturn.
“Kitchen-classroom conservatives: Barack Obama could hasten the spread of educating children at home”
Read an Aug. 6, 2009, article from The Economist about the reasons families are choosing to homeschool their children.
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is an umbrella organization of more than 200 smaller organizations that works to promote human rights throughout the U.S. Wade Henderson is president and CEO, and Nancy Zirkin is the group’s policy director.
“New FBI Hate Crime Statistics Confirm Need for Stronger Federal Response “
An analysis of the statistics by Human Rights First shows that while the number of hate crimes remained steady from 2006 to 2007, the number of attacks targeting Hispanics and LGBT people rose. The FBI reports showed a 3.3 percent rise in anti-Hispanic hate crimes and a 5.5 percent rise in the number of hate crimes motivated […]
Uniform Crime Reports
The FBI’s has an index of all hate crime statistics since 1995.
“Faith and finance: Empowering faith leaders to care for congregants in financial crisis”
This December 2011 research report by North Caroline State University reports on the increase of incidents in which church members ask their religious leaders for financial advice.
“Pope Benedict Pins Economic Crisis On ‘Crisis Of Faith’ In His Christmas Speech To The Roman Curia”
Read a December 2011 story published in the Huffington Post about Pope Benedict XVI’s connection between the world economic crisis and the lack of religious faith.