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 store here. As the first “named plaintiff” in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the ordained Baptist minister also is the face of the largest gender bias class […]

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 Press reporter Moses Newson, who covered civil rights and related stories such as the Little Rock Nine for the AFRO during the 1950s, ‘60s and […]

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 councils in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. both took steps during the week of April 26 to legislate boycotts of Arizona, while San Francisco Mayor […]

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 undocumented immigrants. The legislation, which is poised to take effect this summer, has been perceived as a racially insensitive attack on illegal immigrants and will […]

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 attorney, well-known for his public opposition to the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday and his anti-Jena Six demonstrations, was murdered. And they have charged Barrett’s […]

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 ‘go-go’ mentality of ‘anything goes,’” said Kathleen Day, spokeswoman for the nonprofit, Center for Responsible Lending. “And as we can see, unfairly targeting specific groups […]

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 the funeral by AFRO Photographer Rob Roberts. You can also view the Dorothy Height Commemorative e-edtion here. Click here to view the video program 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, according to CNN. Hagan, 69, took part in a work-release program that allowed him to live at home with relatives in Brooklyn, N.Y., five days […]

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 mark of respect for the memory of Dorothy Height, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of […]

(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 by the National Visionary Leadership Project, “I will be on the firing line.” She honored that commitment to herself and the causes of African Americans, […]

“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 the firing line.” She honored that commitment to herself and the causes of African Americans, women and children until her final days, with her every […]

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 28 2:00 p.m. — The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority will conduct a public Omega Omega Service at Howard University. Dr. Height served as national president […]