GD eNews | Vol. 3, No. 10 | May 31, 2004

Military Luring Black and Latino
Youth With Hip-hop
Commentary By Ed Morales -- The military is targeting blacks and Latino youth, and it’s using hip-hop to do it. Last year, the U.S. Army, partnering with a black-owned advertising firm called the Viral Marketing group, launched its “Taking it to the Streets” campaign to recruit black and Latino youth. [FULL_TEXT]

Knitting Like a Mofo Granny
And Other Truths of Unemployment
By Ryan Furtado
Youth Outlook and Pacific News Service
I hate working. I think most people do. I’ve worked some dead-end jobs, with crappy pay, zero benefits, and the only thing I could think of was: “Damn, if I could only laid off I’d get unemployment.” During long workdays I would daydream, imagining myself waking up around 11:00 a.m, and enjoying my breakfast of Fruit Loops and Pop Tarts while watching The Price Is Right with Bob Barker. For me, this was my Eden of Unemployment. [FULL_TEXT]

New Feature: Consumer Education
Fair Debt Collection
You should know that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act requires that debt collectors treat you fairly and prohibits certain methods of debt collection. Of course, the law does not erase any legitimate debt you owe. This article answers commonly asked questions about your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. [FULL_TEXT]

Key Voter Data Available to the Grassroots
By Bruce A. Dixon, Associate Editor, Black Commentator
We’ve all heard that the coming presidential and congressional elections are the most significant in decades, perhaps the most crucial of our lifetimes.  While this is important news, it’s not especially good news for African Americans.  The number of parties and candidates that will be available to choose from in November is seriously limited and the range of issues those candidates are willing or able to talk about is further narrowed by our country’s media and corporate elite. [FULL_TEXT]

Marriott International Makes $300,000 Contribution To National Association of Black Accountants
The National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) accepts a $300,000 check from Marriott International to support undergraduate scholarships, professional development and NABA’s Accounting Careers Awareness Program, a youth residency initiative. [FULL_TEXT]

White Fear In Wartime
Samuel Huntington Brings His
“Clash of Civilizations” Home BRONX, New York City (PNS) -- Author traces the origins of Huntington’s scenario of Latinos as the greatest threat to “Anglo-Protestant” and casts Latinos as a kind of fifth column undermining U.S. national identity, U.S. civilization and uncovers its roots in Huntington’s old neighborhood, now radically changed, and his long career as a national security expert. [FULL_TEXT]

Images of Success
By Jenel Few
Article courtesy The Black Commentator. This article was first published in The Savannah Morning News
Part 2 of the article “Against All Odds
The Black Male Education Debacle”
For many young black men, work doesn’t really get started until after school. In his research on minority education, Berkeley’s Ogbu found that many black students, particularly males, allow extra curricular activities and work to take priority over class. [FULL_TEXT]

Center for Responsible Lending www.responsiblelending.org
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is a unit of the Center for Community Self-Help (Self-Help), based in Durham, NC.

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