Category: National News

PITTSBURG, Calif. (AP) — As a “greeter,” the cheerful Betty Dukes is one of the first employees customers usually see as they walk through the front doors of the Wal-Mart […]

In another sign of the passing of an era, noted civil rights reporter Evelyn Cunningham died April 28 in Manhattan. She was 94. “We keep losing people,” said fellow Black […]

Several governments and sports organizations nationwide are calling for boycotts of travel to and business with Arizona following that state’s passing of a tough immigration bill. Members of the city […]

The state of Arizona was set to serve as the backdrop for a huge protest on the weekend of April 30 against a tough new state law aimed at identifying […]

Richard Barrett, 67, general counsel of the Nationalist Movement, which he founded in Mississippi, was found dead in his home on April 22, in Rankin County, Miss. Police said the […]

For African Americans and other minorities financial reform is particularly important, advocates, lawmakers and officials said. “For starters, they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the current system, which has allowed this […]

Mourners paid tribute to fallen civil rights heroine, Dr. Dorothy Height on April 29 at Washington National Cathedral. Interment: Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Maryland. Scroll down to view photos from […]

Thomas Hagan, the only person who admitted his role in the assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X, was paroled April 27 after spending more than 40 years in prison, […]

President Barack Obama on April 26 decreed a universal sign of respect for civil rights legend Dr. Dorothy Height, who died April 20 at the age of 98. “As a […]

(Click here to view funeral arrangements for Dr. Dorothy Height.) “So long as God let’s me live,” said Dorothy Irene Height in one of several oral history archive videos presented […]

“So long as God let’s me live,” said Dorothy Irene Height in one of several oral history archive videos presented by the National Visionary Leadership Project, “I will be on […]

Funeral Services Tuesday, April 27 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. — Dr. Height will lie in repose at the NCNW Dorothy I. Height building for a public viewing.   Wednesday, April […]