Category: National News

NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous evoked biblical characters and said faith is what the nation’s oldest civil rights organization has to have in order to follow through on the mission it started 102 years ago. Jealous, speaking July 25 during the NAACP’s national convention at the Los Convention Center in Los Angeles, received a rousing […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday night criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise that can reach his desk before the Aug. 2 deadline. “The American people may have voted for divided government, but they didn’t vote for a dysfunctional […]

Recent Department of Labor (DOL) statistics show that Blacks are still the group hardest hit by the economic recession—showing a 16.2 percent unemployment rate in June. According to Politic365.com, it is unclear how Blacks will vote in 2012 and if Black joblessness will affect President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Out of 14.1 million unemployed people, […]

Despite a discrimination settlement and congressional and presidential approval for payment to cover past injustice, Black farmers in the United States are still struggling to get money and respect from government officials. The latest attack is coming from Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her tea party cohorts who last week blasted the […]

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) July 21 has recently asserted his refusal to apologize for an invective-laced email to a Democratic colleague in Florida’s House delegation triggered by criticism of West’s viewpoint supporting proposed Medicare cuts at a recent debate on the House floor. Such refusal is in spite of a report that suggests that he […]

An iconic figure in African American civil rights history recently met with President Obama in the White House. Ruby Bridges was honored by the president on July 15 and presented the new placement of a landmark portrait depicting her story. Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With” is now being featured near the Oval […]

Amid a fractured economy and fickled job market, President Obama outpaced fundraising projections to raise $86 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party over the last three months. Between April 1 and June 30, Obama garnered more than $47 million for his Obama for America campaign and an additional $38 million for the […]

Throughout the media circus that surrounded the murder trial of Casey Anthony, Judge Belvin Perry is the one person that many claim brought dignity to the proceedings. Now the Tuskegee University grad is thought of as a star in the legal field. Several gossip websites are reporting that Perry is in line for his own […]

Instead of charging you an abstract, nominal fee to generate extra money, banks are cashing in by selling your shopping habits to retailers. The new strategy could rake in $1.7 billion for banks by 2015, according to CNN. Here’s how it works: retailers describe the type of customer they’d like to target based on how […]

The media’s obsession with the Casey Anthony murder trial has brought attention to an unspoken and significant question: If Casey’s daughter had been Black, Hispanic or Asian, would the case have garnered as much attention? Known as “tot mom” by HLN’s host Nancy Grace, Casey Anthony was acquitted July 5 of a first-degree murder charge, […]

In a 2-1 decision July 1 by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the ban on the use of race-based criteria in making Michigan’s public education, public contracting and public employment decisions was reversed. The Court’s opinion, with Judge Julia Smith Gibbons dissenting, held that amending the state constitution using Proposition 2 “modifies Michigan’s […]

Currently, wage earners are not subject to Social Security taxes on earnings in excess of $106, 800. Seven of 10 voters in battleground political states want these high-salaried Americans to pay their fair share for Social Security, according to a new poll. The poll was conducted by private political research firm Lake Research Partners and […]