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Eboni Davis - Spring 1999

She is a print journalism major who will graduate from Hampton University in 2000. She's been a reporter and the health news editor for the student newspaper, the Hampton Script. She wrote stories, made assignments and laid out the health news pages. She's from Bedford Heights, Ohio, and in the summer she wrote for The Bedford Times Register, covering children's summer league swimming championships. She's also done broadcast news, as a reporter for WHOV Radio on the Hampton University campus. She's been a dormitory resident assistant, on the Dean's List, and a Project "Sunshine" tutor. She won a William R. Hearst Scholarship in 1997. She's a member of the National Association of Black Journalists' student chapter and works with the Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals Mentorship Program.

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Author Advises Families To Re-instill Values

Submitted on April 6, 1999 - 12:00am.
WASHINGTON _ When she and some friends were talking about their families, recalls Joyce A. Ladner, they realized that – despite their best intentions – they had not passed on to their children something they had inherited from their own parents. "My mother talked a lot about values," as ..
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Gore Calls For 'Even More Just' Nation; Top African American Research Group Hosts Its Yearly Banquet

Submitted on March 25, 1999 - 1:00am.
WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore urged Americans Tuesday to use the country's prosperity to " build a nation that is even stronger and even more just." "Too many Americans still do not have jobs, too many still do not have opportunities open to them. Too many students are still forced to ..
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Child Soldiers: Other Victims of Uganda's War

Submitted on March 17, 1999 - 1:00am.
WASHINGTON _ Snatch a child. Hack to death a loved one. Fire an AK-47 at a citizen. Slaughter or be slaughtered. In Uganda today, abducted children as young as 8 years old are forced to raid villages, murdering their victims. "For 13 years now, this has been going on in Northern Uganda," said Erin ..
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Class and Race Play Role In Criminal Justice System Experts Say

Submitted on February 26, 1999 - 1:00am.
WASHINGTON _ Minorities and the poor remain the most discriminated against in the criminal justice system, say some scholars and advocates who want to change the system. Often, say those scholars and advocates, poverty and race overlap in who is jailed in the U.S. "Class is as much an issue as race ..
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