(TriceEdneyWire.com) – An online advocacy group, dedicated to strengthening the collective political voice of Black people and other historically disadvantaged, is calling for major corporations to stop funding a right-wing group that pushes for discriminatory voter identification laws. “For years, the right wing has been trying to stop Black people, other people of color, young […]
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President Obama’s Disaster Schedule Competes With Issues
President Barack Obama returned from a whirlwind trip to Europe May 29 and heading straight to Joplin, Mo., where neighborhoods were reduced to rubble during a May 22 tornado. Some 122 deaths have been confirmed and some 1,500 are still missing. At a memorial for lost loved ones on Sunday, the president lauded the heroism […]
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Ire Over ‘Racist’ Email Continues to Build
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — The California State NAACP this week lambasted a California Republican’s emailing of a cartoon depicting President Barack Obama as being from a family of apes. NAACP President Alice Huffman has issued a statement describing the email sent by Marilyn Davenport, an Orange County Republican Central Committee member, as racist, outrageous, and disrespectful. The email […]
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Black Press Rebukes NAACP in Image Awards Advertising Debacle
WASHINGTON (TriceEdneyWire.com) – On the 184th birthday of the Black Press, March 16, an odd debacle is underway. The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, is under fire from Black newspapers around the country over an issue of economic injustice. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous admits that “a grave mistake […]
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Black Lawmakers, Leaders Rate Obama Near 10 on State of the Union
WASHINGTON (TEWire) – It was an evening marked by thunderous applause, Republicans and Democrats symbolically sitting together instead of across the aisles, and a message from the president of the United States that soared with hope for economic recovery, health care, education and jobs. Still, President Obama fell slightly short of 10 points in the […]
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Black Press Celebration to Feature Civil Rights Heroes Next Week
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black Press Week, the annual celebration of the nearly two centuries-old mission of Black-owned newspapers, will be fueled this year by the fact that the 183-year-old civil rights institution is continuing to plead its own cause even as it honors the achievements of others. “When Mr. Russwurm and Mr. Cornish said, ‘We wish to plead […]