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May 09, 2012 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued updated recommendations that urge employers not to misuse criminal background checks in filling job openings.more
May 09, 2012 -
For Blacks, either side of the controversial “stand your ground” laws has proven disproportionately punitive, as recently proven in the cases of Florida’s Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, civil rights activists and legal and other observers say.
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May 04, 2012 -
The new NAACP Report Card for the first session of the 112th Congress is out and it shows that every graded Republican member of the House and Senate received an F on issues considered important to the nation’s oldest civil rights group.more
May 02, 2012 -
I recently had the opportunity to join a bipartisan group of supporters at the White House to witness the signing of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 into law.
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May 02, 2012 -
What if it had failed?
What if the daring decision of President Obama one year ago this week to deploy the now mythic Seal Team Six to finally take out Osama bin Laden – the architect of the September 11, 2001 attack on this country – had ended in catastrophe for America?
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What if the daring decision of President Obama one year ago this week to deploy the now mythic Seal Team Six to finally take out Osama bin Laden – the architect of the September 11, 2001 attack on this country – had ended in catastrophe for America?
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May 02, 2012 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Despite misleading and incomplete media reports, Social Security remains solvent and will remain that way in the foreseeable future, according to several analyses.
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May 02, 2012 -
On April 30, over 200 wounded, injured and ill U.S. Military personnel commenced their fight to see who will reign supreme at this year's Warrior Games.
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April 27, 2012 -
With tuition costs going up every year, college has become a blessing and a burden. Less than 50 years have passed since African-Americans marched for the right to obtain higher education. Today, students of all races are marching for the right to get that same education at a price that won’t leave them penniless and in a vicious cycle of debt.more
April 26, 2012 -
A Black Secret Service agent is being hailed as the heroine in what is reportedly the worst scandal in the agency’s history.more
April 25, 2012 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., left for an undisclosed destination after being released from jail on bond shortly after midnight Monday morning.
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April 25, 2012 -
After walking free for two months before he was charged, George Zimmerman was released on bond for murder charges.more
April 25, 2012 -
Hundreds gathered last week on the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta to commemorate the 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers and Laity.
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April 20, 2012 -
Bail of $150,000 was set April 20 for George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer who is facing charges of second murder for killing an unarmed Black teenager in Sanford, Fla.more
April 20, 2012 -
In a not entirely unexpected move, House Republicans are planning to raid the food stamp cupboard over the next decade to avoid depleting the Pentagon budget, which was scheduled for a 10 percent cutback.more
April 18, 2012 -
Radio One syndicated shows and inspiration stations raised more than $1 million through the fifth annual Radio Cares for St. Jude Kids national event to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital provide the best care to the world's sickest children at no cost to their families.
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April 18, 2012 -
WASHINGTON - Carolyn "Carrie" Hoover of Derwood has a message for parents of teenagers: Don't give up talking to them about underage drinking.
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April 18, 2012 -
“Right now my employees don’t have healthcare,” said William F. Wingo, president of Power Magazine. more
April 18, 2012 -
Black Republicans for the most part have been conspicuously absent so far during the 2012 Presidential Primary Sweepstakes.
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April 18, 2012 -
On April 22, millions of people around the world will celebrate Earth Day, a yearly celebration of this planet and a reminder of the need to protect and conserve its resources.
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April 14, 2012 -
A civil rights advocacy group is pressing Pontiac, Mich., charter school officials to reinstate a Black 26 year-old middle school teacher who was fired over what she says was her role in encouraging student support for the family of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.more
April 12, 2012 -
George Zimmerman is in custody and has been charged with second degree murder in the Feb. 26 killing of Trayvon Martin in Sandford, Fla. This much anticipated action was announced and confirmed by Florida special prosecutor, Angela Corey, in an April 11 press conference in Jacksonville, Fla. more
April 11, 2012 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Norman Jones, woke up last Friday, got dressed and went to the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) for a job pre-screening session in hopes of landing employment that has eluded him since last year. Jones was not alone – more than 100 people also stood in line, all seeking employment.more
April 11, 2012 -
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A law enforcement official says that charges are being filed in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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April 10, 2012 -
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed Black teen have withdrawn as his counsel, saying they have lost contact with him.more
April 09, 2012 -
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police documents filed in court say the two suspects arrested in a shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's black community have both confessed.
An affidavit filed Monday says 19-year-old Jake England confessed to shooting three people and 32-year-old Alvin Watts confessed to shooting two.more
An affidavit filed Monday says 19-year-old Jake England confessed to shooting three people and 32-year-old Alvin Watts confessed to shooting two.more
April 08, 2012 -
Police backed by a helicopter arrested two white men early Sunday and said they would face murder charges in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.emore
April 07, 2012 -
Tulsa, Okla., civil rights leaders, along with the city’s community and elected officials, spent Easter weekend trying to head off Black vigilantes as local police and FBI searched for a lone gunman, described by witnesses as a White man, wanted for the apparent random shootings April 6 of five Black men, three fatally, while walking.more
April 06, 2012 -
Obama administration officials heeded a warning from a federal appeals court and provided a letter verifying that the courts had the final say-so on the constitutionality of the president’s health care reform law.more
April 04, 2012 -
There was little drama on GOP Primary night this week in general; a little before 10 p.m. NBC News declared Willard Mitt Romney the winner in Wisconsin the state with the most delegates up for grabs.
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April 04, 2012 -
This Sunday morning, April 8, millions of people will head to Easter services to hear the Gospel on the day that some call Resurrection Sunday.more
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