Tuskegee State University and Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems division recently signed an agreement giving Tuskegee students and faculty the opportunity to work on the company’s development of a new spacecraft. Dr. Johnson, President, Tuskegee University and Mark Sirangelo, Corp. VP, sign Letter of Cooperation. Both institutions said the relationship was developed with an […]
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Report: Voting Rights Discrimination Alive and Well Nationwide
Forty-nine years after the signing of the Voting Rights Actand one year after the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted a vital protection of that act, a new report from the National Commission on Voting Rights found frequent and ongoing voting rights discrimination. The high court’s decision in Shelby invalidated Sections 4 and 5 of […]
Posted inARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Tyra Banks Shares Wild Predictions for Future
Tyra Banks Curviness as the new standard of beauty, pills that create instantly-defined cheekbones, the ability to give birth at age 120, and fashion and advertising models gone the way of the dinosaur and replaced by robots/avatars. Welcome to the future, according to Tyra Banks. On Aug. 4, the Wall Street Journal invited several celebrities, […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
Experts and Activists Disagree On Impact of Gun Ban Ruling
Black leaders, experts, and activists disagree on the potential impact to the city’s Black community of a court ruling invalidating the District of Columbia’s ban on carrying firearms in public. On July 26, U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr., who normally sits in the Northern District of New York, ruled that D.C. could no […]
Posted inBaltimore News, Baltimore Recovery
Journalism’s George Collins Challenged and Reshaped the Mold for Civil Rights Reporting
Journalists usually record history. George Collins made it. Gentlemen in front of the downtown AFRO building are, photographer I. Henry Phillips Sr., left, and reporters Rufus Wells (Dulah Okoro), Herbert Magrum (Orfa Adwuba) and George Collins (Loua Akulu). In the summer of 1961, Collins and other AFRO conceived and executed what came to be known […]
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First Lady Shares World Vision for Girls and Women at African Summit
First lady Michelle Obama speaks to selected participants of the Presidential Summit for the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in Washington, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, during a roundtable discussion. Michelle Obama engaged in some “real talk” on the issue of female education at the Summit of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders […]
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Recipients of Color Included in Obama Standout Honors in the Arts and Humanities
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, shown in this 2006 photo, received a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama for his work as a director and producer of documentary films that spotlight African Americans. Three artists of color and a Black historian were among the Americans recognized by President Barack Obama July 28 for their outstanding contributions […]
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Alabama State U under fire; so is President Boyd
The historic presidency of Alabama State University’s first female chief continues to be shrouded in controversy. Gwendolyn Boyd, president of Alabama State University, has been going through a rough time in her first months at the helm of the college. ASU’s accrediting body, The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) placed ASU on a […]
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Kansas Plagued by Voter Suppression Despite New Legislation
Kris Kobach is a man on a mission. Mere days after being sworn in as Kansas’ 31st secretary of state on Jan. 10, 2011, the co-architect of Arizona’s divisive and much-disputed anti-illegal immigration law, SB 1070, introduced a law to combat what he saw as unchecked voter fraud, particularly by non-U.S. citizens. The Secure and […]
Posted inHealth
Vanessa Williams Reveals Childhood Molestation by Woman
Former Miss America and actress, Vanessa Williams. Oprah Winfrey has delivered another scoop, as the former talk show queen got actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams to open up about her childhood molestation at the hands of a woman. During the summer before she entered fifth grade, Williams said she joined her friend’s family […]
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RNC Chairman Priebus Addresses National Urban League Conference
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus addressed the National Urban League at its annual conference in Cincinnati on July 24 as part of the GOP’s campaign to engage Black voters. Priebus reiterated his party’s recommitment to embracing and reaching out to the African-American community, one of the strategies which arose from the RNC’s Growth and […]
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Feds Vote to Retroactively Reduce Sentences on Drug Crimes
More than 46,000 drug offenders—many of them Black and Hispanic—could be eligible for reduced sentences following a decision by the United States Sentencing Commission earlier this month. Members of the Commission on July 18 voted unanimously to apply a reduction in sentencing guidelines for most federal drug crimes—a move decided upon in April—retroactively, meaning many […]
