Diana Ross Headlines The Ultimate Music Party With a Purpose Caribbean Cruise

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http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-diana-ross-caribbean-cruise-20151208-story.html

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Diana Ross headlines the ultimate music-party-with-a-purpose Caribbean cruise

December 10, 2015, 8:00 AM



Diana Ross, Charlie Wilson, Patti LaBelle, New Edition and Jazmine Sullivan will be rockin' it aboard an eight-day Caribbean cruise in April that raises money for a great educational cause.

The cruise, which also will feature a boatload of other entertainers, including DJ Kool, the Bar-Kays and Con Funk Shun, raises money to support students attending historically black colleges and universities.

Entertainment runs from a Funk Fest to West Coast Hip Hop to Smooth Grooves from the '70s, where Harold Melvin's Blue Notes will be singing. And there will be empowerment seminars, theme nights and daytime parties too.

The Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage is organized by radio personality Joyner and sponsored in part by Ford. Joyner has been chartering fund-raising cruises to support black colleges and universities since 1999.



The cruise aboard the Carnival Breeze sails from Miami on April 23 and returns May 1. Port calls include St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Maarten and Grand Turk in Turks & Caicos before returning to Miami.

There's still room on board too. Prices start as low as $2,860 per person for interior cabins and $4,000 per person for ocean view cabins; both are based on double occupancy.

Info: Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage, [[972) 980-7245


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[marv2]

This is the same Tom Joyner boat cruise. Here's the thread in case you missed it:

http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?15792-Diana-Ross-is-doing-Tom-Joyner-s-Boat-Cruise-2016

[midnightman]

In the words of Mary Wells, REDHOT beat you to the punch.

[jobeterob]

Ya, but it seemed like Starting All Over Again was wiser!

[marv2]

in the words of mary wells, redhot beat you to the punch.

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheMotownManiac]

It's cool of The LA Times to make it such a priority - this event is a huge fund raiser for black advancement. Scalia can bite my a##. Diana Ross' sister is the dean of a medical school - evidently college wasn't too hard for HER. I'm proud of The LA Times and Diana Ross for headlining this great event to counter morons like Scalia & Thomas. Who better than internationally renown musical icon Diana Ross - currently riding her Top 40 R&B LP as she enters her sixth consecutive decade of Top 40 R&B albums - go Diana!!!

http://www.businessinsider.com/antonin-scalia-echoed-clarence-thomas-controversial-affirmative-action-comments-2015-12

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Justice Scalia's controversial comments on affirmative action echoed longtime arguments from the court's only black member
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The Supreme Court just heard an affirmative-action case that could lead to an incredibly rare phenomenon
WASHINGTON — When US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday questioned whether some blacks and Hispanics were academically ready for the University of Texas at Austin, he drew quick criticism from civil-rights advocates.

An opponent of affirmative action known for his blunt rhetoric, Scalia might also have been channeling the one justice on the bench who said nothing on Wednesday: Clarence Thomas, the court's only black member.

During the oral arguments over race-based student admissions policies, Scalia said "there are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans," and some minorities might be better suited to "less advanced" or "slower track" schools.

Thomas, a fellow conservative, has long argued that such programs hurt minorities, including in a 2013 opinion the last time the justices took up the University of Texas case. Thomas wrote that blacks and Hispanics admitted under the university's program that considers race among other characteristics were "far less prepared than their white and Asian classmates."

He said some minorities would be better off at "less selective colleges where they would have been more evenly matched."

"Setting aside the damage wreaked upon the self-confidence of these overmatched students, there is no evidence that they learn more at the university than they would have learned at other schools for which they were better prepared," Thomas wrote. "Indeed, they may learn less."

Thomas joined the court in 1991. He has not asked a question from the bench since February 2006.

Scalia's remarks reflected arguments made in some of the court papers backing Abigail Fisher, the white applicant who sued the university when denied entry.

University of San Diego law professor Gail Heriot wrote in one brief that "the nation now has fewer African-American physicians, scientists, and engineers than it would have had using race-neutral methods" because of the minority student dropout rate in some demanding science programs.

Most University of Texas freshmen enter through a program guaranteeing admission to the top 10% of high-school graduating classes. The university's supplemental admissions policy, targeted in the lawsuit, looks beyond grades to a range of factors including race.

Greg Garre, the university's lawyer, countered Scalia by saying students admitted through the supplemental program "fare better" over time than those entering through the "top 10" policy.

"And, frankly," Garre said, "I don't think the solution to the problems with student-body diversity can be to set up a system in which not only are minorities going to separate schools, they're going to inferior schools."

[[Reporting by Joan Biskupic and Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

[sansradio]

As a Black Ivy Leaguer, this kind of crap makes my blood boil. I can't wait until those two a$$#oles are history.

[marv2]

As a Black Ivy Leaguer, this kind of crap makes my blood boil. I can't wait until those two a$$#oles are history.

I agree sansradio. This kind of talk would have kept me from attending the university of my choice back in the day!

[marv2]

It's cool of The LA Times to make it such a priority - this event is a huge fund raiser for black advancement. Scalia can bite my a##. Diana Ross' sister is the dean of a medical school - evidently college wasn't too hard for HER. I'm proud of The LA Times and Diana Ross for headlining this great event to counter morons like Scalia & Thomas. Who better than internationally renown musical icon Diana Ross - currently riding her Top 40 R&B LP as she enters her sixth consecutive decade of Top 40 R&B albums - go Diana!!!

http://www.businessinsider.com/antonin-scalia-echoed-clarence-thomas-controversial-affirmative-action-comments-2015-12


This is not the first Tom Joyner concert cruise used as a fundraiser. This not a new event, so relax!

[Roberta75]

Justice Scalia's controversial comments on affirmative action echoed longtime arguments from the court's only black member
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UT lawyer had the perfect response when Justice Scalia suggested some blacks go to a 'slower-track school'

The US Supreme Court will hear a case this week that could radically change college admissions in America

The Supreme Court just heard an affirmative-action case that could lead to an incredibly rare phenomenon
WASHINGTON — When US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday questioned whether some blacks and Hispanics were academically ready for the University of Texas at Austin, he drew quick criticism from civil-rights advocates.

An opponent of affirmative action known for his blunt rhetoric, Scalia might also have been channeling the one justice on the bench who said nothing on Wednesday: Clarence Thomas, the court's only black member.

During the oral arguments over race-based student admissions policies, Scalia said "there are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans," and some minorities might be better suited to "less advanced" or "slower track" schools.

Thomas, a fellow conservative, has long argued that such programs hurt minorities, including in a 2013 opinion the last time the justices took up the University of Texas case. Thomas wrote that blacks and Hispanics admitted under the university's program that considers race among other characteristics were "far less prepared than their white and Asian classmates."

He said some minorities would be better off at "less selective colleges where they would have been more evenly matched."

"Setting aside the damage wreaked upon the self-confidence of these overmatched students, there is no evidence that they learn more at the university than they would have learned at other schools for which they were better prepared," Thomas wrote. "Indeed, they may learn less."

Thomas joined the court in 1991. He has not asked a question from the bench since February 2006.

Scalia's remarks reflected arguments made in some of the court papers backing Abigail Fisher, the white applicant who sued the university when denied entry.

University of San Diego law professor Gail Heriot wrote in one brief that "the nation now has fewer African-American physicians, scientists, and engineers than it would have had using race-neutral methods" because of the minority student dropout rate in some demanding science programs.

Most University of Texas freshmen enter through a program guaranteeing admission to the top 10% of high-school graduating classes. The university's supplemental admissions policy, targeted in the lawsuit, looks beyond grades to a range of factors including race.

Greg Garre, the university's lawyer, countered Scalia by saying students admitted through the supplemental program "fare better" over time than those entering through the "top 10" policy.

"And, frankly," Garre said, "I don't think the solution to the problems with student-body diversity can be to set up a system in which not only are minorities going to separate schools, they're going to inferior schools."

[[Reporting by Joan Biskupic and Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

Clarence Thomas is the most inefective judge weve ever had on the Supreme Court. He is a horrible man and what he did to Anita Hill was disgustinfg. Scalia is nothing but an ignorant old bigot imo.

Roberta

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We don't have many judges so politically infused in Canada, luckily!