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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, one of the nation’s leading research and public policy institutions, has announced the election of attorney Barbara L. Johnson, a partner at the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, to a three-year term on its board of governors. Johnson is a nationally known jury […]

NNPA – After a long-fought and bruising battle to be the state’s top law enforcement official, Kamala Harris has prevailed to become the next attorney general of California. She will be the first woman and the first African American to be elected to statewide office in more than three decades. A career prosecutor, Harris embarked […]

A former professor at the University of Central Florida recently filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming she was fired for refusing to use a textbook that contained offensive racial stereotypes. According to The Orlando Sentinel, the suit, filed in federal court on Nov. 10, states that Dr. Nancy Rudner Lugo was a tenured professor […]

School officials in Vallejo, Calif. told parents at a recent board hearing that their children will be required to take a homosexual rights course. Students in Kindergarten through 5th grade will be shown three movies portraying toleration behavior towards homosexual students in a class, said Vallejo Unified School District officials, and parents cannot opt-out. “We […]

The United Nations announced Nov. 23 that new HIV infections have declined globally, news that experts believe may mark a turning point in the epidemic. The U.N. report stated that 33.3 million people worldwide contracted the disease in 2009, down slightly from 33.4 million the year before. The report said 56 countries had either stabilized […]

The Rhodes Trust recently named two African-American students Rhodes Scholars. Fagan Harris of Glen Burnie, Md. and Esther Udehi of Evansville, Ind. will join 30 other Americans and travel to England next October to study at Oxford University. Harris is a 2009 graduate of Stanford University in California where he holds a bachelor’s degree in […]

The NAACP will host its annual Daisy Bates Education Summit in Raleigh, N.C. on Dec. 2 through Dec. 4. Named after the late Daisy Bates, advisor to the revered Little Rock Nine, the summit will assemble grassroots organizations nationwide to fight for her dream of equity in the nation’s schools. “Despite mob threats intimidation and […]

The results of a recent polling expedition to identify the next president of Haiti shows notary Jean-Henry Céant favored by nearly three of four (72 percent) of respondents, according to a press release issued by Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians. Michel Martelly (Sweet Mickey) was also mentioned as a preferred choice […]

Margaret Burroughs, founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago and a celebrated artist, died Nov. 22 at 93. Her death spawned a number of remembrances from the nation’s policymakers, including President Barack Obama, Congressman Bobby L. Rush, D-Ill., and Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun. “Words cannot express what I feel […]

After garnering nationwide media attention for his campaign against Facebook because of its perceived adverse affects on his congregants’ marriages, Neptune Township, N.J., pastor Cedric Miller is speaking out about a three-way sexual affair with his wife and a male church assistant. The Asbury Park Press first reported Miller’s unusual charge to church leaders: Quit […]