Category: Afro Briefs

In the blockbuster relationship comedy Think Like a Man, the women in the film turn to radio personality-turned relationship guru Steve Harvey’s book to “flip the script” on their mates to improve their tanking relationships. While most can identify with many of the characters in the film, Mya is challenged with an age-old dating dilemma […]

A U.S. appeals court has rejected an element of Arizona’s controversial citizenship law in a decision civil rights advocates are claiming as a significant victory against fast-growing voter suppression efforts nationwide. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on April 17 ruled that voter registration provisions of Arizona’s Proposition 200 violate the […]

“I feel like I’m 18,” says Hannah Plummer, sitting in her Germantown home, draped in her finest pearls. Surrounded by her family, the mother of five turned 103 April 14 and spent it with family and friends. “Each year we have a birthday party for her and she seems to be more energetic then the […]

Wisconsin has repealed a three-year-old law that allowed pay discrimination complaints to be pursued in state courts. Gov. Scott Walker (R), who faces a recall election June 5, quietly signed the bill on Good Friday, along with scores of other laws that Walker critics claim reflect an anti-woman, anti-middle class tone for the state. Under […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their login information for social media sites like Facebook. The measure, which handily passed the legislature earlier this month, keeps managers from snooping on password-protected content, a practice advocates of the bill say […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over. Last weekend during a National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis, Nugent rallied support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and said of the Obama administration: […]

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced April 19 that an examination of the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law led by Florida’s first Black female lieutenant governor and a prominent Tallahassee Black minister is to get underway May 1. Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, chairman of the Task Force on Citizens Safety and Protection, and Rev. R.B. […]

Police officials in Milledgeville, Ga., a small city northeast of Macon Ga., are defending their decision April 17 to handcuff and detain a Black kindergarten student at the police station when she threw a tantrum during class. “Our policy is that any detainee transported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be handcuffed […]

On a campaign stop in Michigan April 19, President Obama paused at the Henry Ford Museum to sit on the bus Rosa Parks made famous. Obama, who said he used the opportunity to reflect, commented that the courage that Rosa Parks showed that day is the same courage that many Americans are showing today. “So […]

Martin Delany was a man who made a habit of defying the odds. He was self-educated in a time when, for Blacks, being educated could mean death. He was a physician, author, business owner and military pioneer at a time when African Americans were still counted as chattel and their intelligence doubted. And beginning next […]

British Petroleum PLC (BP) has agreed to pay $7.8 billion to cover most of the economic loss, property damage and medical claims for the largest oil spill in American history. The London-based company’s action would, if approved by a federal judge in New Orleans, La., settle claims by the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee (PSC) representing private […]

The late Manning Marable never got a chance to see the publication of his controversial biography on civil rights leader Malcolm X, but the historical account lives on. On April 15, Marable was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the history category for his 2011 release, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, according to the […]