From The Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2011
CNN's newly announced prime-time news lineup has come under fire by the NAACP, which claims the slate continues a multi-network trend that excludes African Americans from prime-time slots as anchors and hos ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 1:32PM
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NORTH CAROLINA--Researchers from Villanova University recently found that women convicted of crimes who are of darker complexion, serve more time in jail that lighter skinned Blacks.
Villanova researchers studied more than 12,000 cases of African- ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:53AM
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NEW ORLEANS-- Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the S ...
Posted Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 11:47AM
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BET.com--Clayton Hill, a former member of the Nation of Islam and currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Chicago, has come forward and told HipHopDX.com that he played an accessory to the murder of rapper Notorious BIG after the fact, and know ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 1:04PM
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AN OPEN LETTER TO BLACK LEADERSHIP
July 19, 2010
To the Spiritual, Political, Educational, and Economic Leaders and to our Sports and Entertainment Giants:
May this open letter find you well and in good spirit as we search for a solution to ...
Posted Wednesday, July 6th 2011 at 12:55PM
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Alabama's Racist New Immigration Law
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow
By ALVARO HUERTA
When it comes to scapegoating immigrants for America’s woes, the Deep South takes the cake. From slavery to Jim Crow—legalized, racial segregation—to the recent wa ...
Posted Tuesday, July 5th 2011 at 11:22AM
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--Nelson Mandela, icon-hero of the world, turns 93 this month. He is hanging on despite family tragedies that claimed another great-grandchild in June. The child was born premature and died after just four days,
The man k ...
Posted Monday, July 4th 2011 at 4:21PM
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