Category: National News

The founder of a London-based model management company says it’s hard to find commercial modeling work for dark-skinned women because designers in fashion capitals Milan and Paris “absolutely don’t want Black girls.” Carole White, founder of Premier Model Management and former agent of Naomi Campbell, made the remarks during an interview with the UK news […]

An Alameda (Calif.) Circuit Court jury June 9 convicted two men of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Oakland Black journalist Chauncey Bailey, as he walked to work. Bailey, editor-in chief of the Oakland Post was working on investigative reports of questionable activities by a local community group, Your Black Muslim Bakery. Yusuf Bey […]

When Barack Obama ascended to the White House in 2009 as the nation’s first Black president with the help of millions of first time voters, some pundits and commentators were quick to declare America, and its younger generations, colorblind. But a recent study finds that many young people between the ages of 18 and 30 […]

Black workers may be hit hardest as the lingering recession and the political drive to shrink federal and state spending are resulting in a dwindling number of government jobs, according to recently released Labor Department estimates. Data released in a June 6 Labor Department analysis convey a startling picture for Black participation in the public […]

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) has vowed to fight for a jobs bill given the high unemployment rate among African Americans. Cleaver lays at least part of the blame for slow job growth for African Americans on Republican Party insistence on cutting programs that help inner city and minority communities. “After four […]

When Republican lawmakers swept to power last November, they promised voters that the 112th Congress would be noted for the quality of legislation that passed the House, not the quantity. However, weeks of seemingly unquenchable debate over Medicare vouchers, next year’s budget and the nation’s debt limit may have made that ambitious campaign promise far […]

(NNPA) — The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity around new and exciting potential HIV-vaccine concepts, just in time for the 30-year anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus. In Kenya, clinical trials began on two promising new designs for preventive HIV vaccines.  In South Africa, researchers launched clinical trials on […]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) faced another courtroom assault, this time at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati a battle to strike down all or part of the federal health care reform law as unconstitutional. “The federal government has been getting more and more power,” Robert Muise, […]

It’s not just the casinos in Las Vegas that have an investment in the NBA Finals. Apparently politicians are getting into the wagering as well. The 2011 National Basketball Association Finals battle between the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat has sparked a friendly gamble within the Congressional Black Caucus between Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) […]

The U.S. Sentencing Commission met June 1 to consider applying revised sentencing guidelines retroactively that would reduce the sentences of some of those convicted for violating federal laws against crack cocaine. The commission is a federal agency that establishes sentencing practices for federal courts. If it approves the action, it would mean that equalized sentencing […]

President Barack Obama returned from a whirlwind trip to Europe May 29 and heading straight to Joplin, Mo., where neighborhoods were reduced to rubble during a May 22 tornado. Some 122 deaths have been confirmed and some 1,500 are still missing. At a memorial for lost loved ones on Sunday, the president lauded the heroism […]

Crime levels nationwide fell in 2010 from the year before, according to preliminary FBI statistics, which show a 2.8 percent decrease in property crimes and a 5.5 percent drop in the number of reported violent crimes. Figures in the FBI’s “Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report” revealed a decline in murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated […]