Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was escorted from the House floor March 28 after he donned a hoodie and sunglasses and delivered a speech protesting the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and decrying racial profiling. After his remarks he was escorted out by members of the office of the House Seargeant at Arms. “Racial profiling has […]
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Posted inBaltimore News
Cops Handcuff and Arrest Four Baltimore Kids at Grade School
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is decrying the arrest March 29 of four elementary school children in a Baltimore school, calling the act inexcusable. “The actions of Baltimore City police in arresting and handcuffing 8- and 9-year-old children at school are appalling, and also in plain violation of state regulations regarding school arrests,” said […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Nationally Respected Civil Rights Attorney John Payton Dies at 65
President Obama led the nation in mourning the passing of John Payton, a giant within the civil rights legal community. Payton, who was the sixth president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, died in the late evening hours March 22. He was 65. “Michelle and I were saddened to hear about […]
Posted inNational News
Miss. White Men Plead Guilty to Hate-Fueled Killing of James Anderson
Three Mississippi men who ran down and killed a Black man last June pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes March 22, one day after one of the defendants pleaded guilty to the slaying in state court. Dylan Butler, 20, Deryl Dedmon, 19, and John Aaron Rice, 19, all of Brandon, Miss., admitted to conspiring to […]
Posted inHealth
Study: Breast Cancer Claims Five Black Women Per Day
Five African-American women each day, and 1,722 annually, die from breast cancer, according to a new study released by the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Forum. But contrary to popular belief, social issues are the main contributing factor, not genetics. The “2012 Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality Study” was conducted by Sinai Urban Health Institute, […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
Sulaimon Brown’s Shadow Looms in Thompson Probe
He promised to bring down Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration after his firing early last year. But Sulaimon Brown’s revenge may extend way beyond what he anticipated. The former minor mayoral candidate dominated the news in 2011 when he accused Gray’s campaign of illegally paying him to heckle rival, then-Mayor Adrian Fenty during the 2010 election. […]
Posted inNational News
History of Social Organizations in the African American Community
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Posted inNational News
From Slaves to Socialites
By the mid-19th century, slavery had become a seeping sore on U.S. society. For a nation founded on the principles of liberty, African enslavement was contradictory, even embarrassing. And so the Union took on the abolition cause in its war with the southern states—though the stance was based more on economics and political expediency than […]
Posted inNational News
Urban League State of Black America-2012 Report: Black Equality Relies on the Vote
It’s as if time has stood still—decades after civil rights leaders and lawmakers secured the right to vote freely, African Americans are fighting the same old battles at the polls, according to the latest edition of a major annual report. Voting rights remain the biggest issue facing Black America today, according to the National Urban […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
NAACP Takes Voting Rights Campaign to UN
If ongoing attempts by various states in the U. S. to restrict voting rights prevail, many minority and poor voters may be disenfranchised in this year’s presidential election, according to the NAACP—a concern the organization is taking to the world. The civil rights organization will send a delegation to the meeting of the UN Human […]
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New HUR Talk Radio Show Offers Black Male, Female Perspectives
For one hour each week, Black men and women battle it out over the issues of the day on a unique talk show that is changing the voice of satellite radio. “He Said She Said,” a true battle of the sexes, is one of the premier programs on the fledgling satellite radio station, HUR Voices, […]
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Former CBC Chair, Trade Diplomat Honored by International Affairs Group
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who once chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rosa Whitaker, former assistant U.S. trade representative for Africa, were honored for their contributions to civil rights, social, global and economic justice and African development by a group of international affairs advocates Feb. 16. The United Nations Association of Washington D.C., (UNA-NCA) in […]