Color Of Change, which bills itself as the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, this week kicked off #VotingWhileBlack, a digital campaign meant to mobilize African-American voters to flood the polls on Election Day. Launched under the banner of the organization’s political action committee, the campaign seeks to rally Black voters behind specific candidates based […]
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Purdue Librarian Launches Black Literature Subscription Service
A librarian at Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center has launched a library-inspired book subscription service that celebrates Black literature. Purdue University’s Black Cultural Center librarian, Jamillah Gabriel. (Courtesy Photo via purdue.edu) Jamillah Gabriel told the AFRO that her Call Number service will include monthly boxes containing a newly released book by a Black author. Subscribers […]
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Tupac, Janet Jackson Nominated for Rock Hall of Fame
Rapper Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson lead the pack of 19 artists nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Rapper Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson have been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. (Courtesy Photos) More than 800 industry insiders that comprise […]
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Obama Recognizes Snubbed 1936 Black Olympic Athletes
Jesse “the Buckeye Bullet” Owens was the poster child of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. He was not alone, however, in defying the Aryan superiority complex that plagued Adolph Hitler and likeminded Whites—17 other African-American athletes combined to win a quarter of the medals won by the U.S. team. Their courageous achievements, however, […]
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Baltimore TV Tech Personality Launches New Venture with Al Roker
Baltimore native Mario Armstrong, Emmy Award–winning talk show host and digital lifestyle expert, has just signed a deal with Roker Media to co-produce and host the first ever interactive talk show to be live-streamed on Facebook Live. The “Never Settle Show” will feature a traditional live audience, but social media users will also be able […]
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FBI:149 Sexually Exploited Children Recovered-150 Pimps etc. Busted
A nationwide sex trafficking sting has resulted in the recovery of 149 sexually exploited children and the arrests of more than 150 pimps and other perpetrators, the FBI announced Oct. 13. Screenshot from raw video footage from Cross Country operations in Alexandria, Virginia. Operation Cross Country is a week-long, FBI-led enforcement action to address commercial […]
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Historic Civil Rights Warrior Jack Greenberg Dies at 91
Jack Greenberg, a towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and the longest tenured leader of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF), died Oct. 12 at his home in New York. He was 91. Jack Greenberg, NAACP director-counsel of the Legal […]
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Texas State University Removes Confederate Memorial
Texas State University recently removed an 85-year monument honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its San Marcos campus. A statue of Jefferson Davis is seen on the University of Texas campus, Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in Austin, Texas. As University of Texas administrators consider a request to remove a statue that symbolizes the Confederacy, the […]
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Univ. of Missouri Announces Plan to Boost Minority Faculty
The University of Missouri (UM) made headlines last fall after a series of racial incidents led to student protests that, among other things, prompted the resignation of UM System President Timothy M. Wolfe and Chancellor Bowen Loftin. The UM student protests ignited similar demonstrations nationwide. Since then, the UM system has taken steps to address […]
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Nationwide Campaign Seeks Release of Ohio Teen Who Shot Abusive Father
In the wee morning hours of July 28, teenager Bresha Meadows picked up her father’s .45-caliber, semi-automatic handgun and shot him dead while he slept in the living room. Bresha Meadows (Courtesy Photo/thepetitionsite.com) The relatives of Jonathan Meadows said it was a deliberate act of murder. But Bresha’s mother and siblings said it was act […]
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Reports: Chemical Contamination in Classrooms Threatens Children
Millions of American school children are at risk of chemical contamination in their classrooms, according to new reports by the office of Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research organization. An estimated 14 million children—about 30 percent of K-12 students—are exposed to toxic levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or […]
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Media Outlets Take the Lead in Labeling Trump—A Serial Liar, Racist, Misogynist, Birther, and Bully
The New York Times’ Editorial Board, in a Nov. 24, 2015 editorial titled “Mr. Trump’s Applause Lies,” pointed out the candidate’s frequent racist assertions about African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Muslims—anybody non-White—and the responsibility of the Fourth Estate to call him to task on those untruths. This Oct. 5, 2016, file photo shows Republican presidential […]