Category: Afro Briefs

The NAACP says it can document connections between the Tea Party and racial hate groups in America. The report, titled “Tea Party Nationalism,” was written by the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights with the support of the NAACP, released Oct. 19 and claims that various groups use Tea Party events as platforms […]

Jeff Hall, by all accounts, has been running a low-key campaign for the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County, California. However, there is nothing low-key about Hall’s involvement with the National Socialist Movement, reportedly America’s largest neo-Nazi group. “I want a white nation,” Hall, a 31-year-old plumber, told the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t […]

Women are increasingly the chief breadwinners of their families. Women who are beginning careers as entrepreneurs are making women’s jobs, and their access to start-up funds, a critical component to the nation’s economic recovery, according to a White House report released Oct. 21. “The economy has changed where women have made such enormous strides that […]

A new estimate by the Centers for Disease Control claims that one in 22 Blacks will be diagnosed with AIDS in their lifetime, more than twice the risk for Latinos and eight times that of Whites. The estimate, reported this week by the Associated Press, is an update from three years ago and is based […]

Blacks are more vulnerable to lending predatory practices, particularly when it comes to securing home mortgages, a recent CNN report found. But CNN also reported that victims of high cost interest rates and overpriced housing are fighting back by taking on subprime lenders. For instance, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit against one mortgage […]

A judge’s order to immediately halt the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was set aside on Oct. 20 by a federal appeals court acting on a request from the White House. The Obama administration asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to temporarily stay the decision by U.S. District Judge […]

ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan (AP) — The kids in this Darfur refugee camp have lived here for all or most of their lives, and won’t be going home soon. Children in dust-coated jeans or robes speak of one day becoming doctors, translators or journalists, but on the day a U.N. Security Council visited, they seemed […]

A new collection from the private papers of former South African President Nelson Mandela reveals years of heartache due to missing his family while in prison and his discomfort at becoming a national icon. Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela’s personal archive to offer unique access to the inspiring world leader.  The records include journals […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Steady rains flooded portions of the Haitian capital over the weekend, turning streets into rivers and leaving at least 12 people dead, civil protection officials said this week. Storms falling on the mountains that ring the capital sent cascades into the pitch-black downtown, where trucks left boat-like wakes as they forded […]

Two Spelman College women created a winning AT&T mobile application and received a $10,000 prize with a tool called HBCU Buddy, BlackAmericaWeb.com reported. Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller are co-captains of the college’s Spelbots robotics team, and will share the scholarship with their winning development for the 2010 AT&T Big Mobile Campus Challenge. The students […]

The Diabetic Amputation Prevention (DAP) Foundation recently announced it will continue its 50-city tour, the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program, in New York. The program will offer free diabetes and high-blood pressure screenings and provide information on prostate cancer to African American men at 30 black-owned barbershops throughout Harlem, Manhattan and the Bronx. The Black […]

Aloft, one of Starwood Hotel’s boutique lodgings, opens in New York City’s Harlem later this month, it will be the first hotel to open in the neighborhood in over 40 years. According to the Associated Press, Harlem already serves as a major destination in New York City, and tourism experts believe the opening of the […]