University of Texas President Bill Powers speaks to the media on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, on the south steps of the Main Tower in Austin, Texas. A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that the University of Texas can continue using race as a factor in undergraduate admissions as a way of promoting diversity on […]
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AFRO Hosts Legacy Gala
A former slave built it, and he built it strong. And 122 years later, the Afro-American Newspaper continues to thrive. “Consistency and reliability,” said AFRO Chairman and Publisher John J. Oliver of the secret to the newspaper’s longevity and stature among its readers. “We’ve never missed an edition. “We’ve always been there you can’t shake […]
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Justice Department to Weigh In on Challenges to Election Law Revisions
Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. The Obama administration plans to jump in on lawsuits against GOP-engineered voting restrictions in Ohio and Wisconsin, Attorney General Eric Holder has said. The move would be the first time the Department of Justice has intervened in cases outside of the jurisdictions—most of them […]
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Relationship Coach Says He Knows How to Keep Men from Straying
An Atlanta-based relationship coach and motivational speaker wants women to know he has a sure-fire remedy to cure cheating. In How to Master the 7 Most Effective Ways to Keep Your Man From Cheating, K. L. Horsley offers what he calls the best menu to maintain a man’s fidelity. “After speaking with men from all walks […]
Posted inSports
FOX ‘Demotes’ Oliver
Black NFL reporter Pam Oliver It was as if a mini-bomb had been detonated in the sports world. The news this week that trailblazing Black NFL reporter Pam Oliver is being demoted to Fox Sports’ #2 reporting team and will leave sideline reporting altogether at the end of this season has stunned everyone—including Oliver. The […]
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Resolving the Last U.S. Unresolved Mass Lynching: Georgia’s 1946 Moore’s Ford Bridge Slaughter
Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching. On July 25, 1946, Roger Malcom a Black Georgia sharecropper, and his wife Dorothy, who was seven months pregnant, along with his brother-in-law George Dorsey and his wife May were on their way home. Loy Harrison, a farmer, who employed Malcom, had just bailed Malcom out of the Walton County Jail […]
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Former Police Corporal’s Family Seek to get 45-Year Sentence Overturned
Stacey Washington, 55, and her 14-year-old daughter have launched a campaign to overturn the conviction of their husband and father, respectively, Keith Washington, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison on charges of involuntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and using a handgun in a crime of violence. For the past seven years, Stacey Washington, wife […]
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Georgia Continues Longstanding Voter Suppression Efforts
Georgia has long been the center of resistance to advances in voting rights for Blacks and other minorities. “The history of voting rights in Georgia can best be categorized as promises made, promises broken; promises remade, promises broken; promises made and now only partially realized,” said Francys Johnson, president, Georgia NAACP, in testimony before the […]
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Civil Rights Act: 50 Years Later
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others, look on. Fifty years ago, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act on July 2, signaling a sea change in American society. “That Act absolutely transformed America,” said Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the […]
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Another D.C. Political Figure Swept Up in Thompson Dragnet
Another Washington, D.C. politico was recently caught in the legal dragnet precipitated by the schemes of former businessman Jeffrey Thompson. Thompson pled guilty in March to charges involving his illegal contributions to numerous federal and District of Columbia campaigns. As part of his plea bargain, Thompson agreed to cooperate fully in an ongoing investigation. Since […]
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Florida Reignites Voter Suppression
The roots of modern-day voter suppression is buried in Florida, and it grew and blossomed during the 2000 presidential elections. “Florida is the state where awareness of how serious flaws in elections administration could result in voters being disenfranchised developed,” said Marcia Johnson-Blanco, coordinator, Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The […]
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D.C. Woman Presses for Answers After Husband Mysteriously Dies in Jail
Samuel Shields died while detained in the Prince George’s County Jail. Officials are investigating the death of a 49-year-old man at Prince George’s County Jail in Upper Marlboro, Md., even as his wife is demanding answers.”I just want the truth of why my husband is dead,” Regina Shields, a Northeast Washington, D.C. resident, told NBC […]