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by Kenneth Miller Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times For the first time since the now infamous Christopher Dorner manifesto in which he castigated the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and threatened to kill colleagues before going on a shooting spree, allegedly murdering four and injuring four more, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNNPA) – When Lisa Jackson leaves her post as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency later this month, she will be remembered for taking on oil industry groups and Republican lawmakers, and pushing to give African Americans a greater voice on environmental issues. “Early on [...]
Approximately 100 residents gathered at the Eutaw Activity Center, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 to share in the Unity Breakfast honoring the birth, works and legacy of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. This marked the 42nd commemoration of Dr. King, sponsored by the Greene County Chapter of SCLC. Rev. Randy Miller, Pastor [...]
Senator Hank Sanders addresses NAACP rally on Capitol Hill Montgomery, Jan. 12: More than 300 people attended a rally Saturday on the steps of the State Capitol building in Montgomery to protest Governor Robert Bentley’s decisions not to implement sections of the National Patients and Affordable Care Act (President Obama’s health care reform legislation). The [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney clearly bested President Obama in the first of three televised debates, some experts are questioning whether too much emphasis is being placed on style rather than substance. Angela Minor, director of the Martin L. King, Jr. [...]
The Eutaw City Council made several adjustments to the agenda at the opening of its regular meeting, Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Councilman Joe Lee Powell requested removing items 5 and 6, comments by Jerry Brown and Jerri Glenn respectively, and placing these in the public comment section. Powell also requested adding an item to discuss [...]
by Jessica Williams-Gibson Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder Some are concerned that the kind of activism advocated by leaders such as Rev. Derek King (left) and Rev. Al Sharpton is not as strong in the Black community today as in the past. During the civil rights movement of the 50s [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly 6 million former prisoners –1 million of them Black – will not be able to vote in the November presidential election because of state laws that continue to punish them even after they have completed their sentences, according to a recent report by the [...]
Despite an earlier ruling by a local subcommittee of the Alabama Democratic Party, the state committee has ruled that Arthur Crawford will be the party’s candidate for Probate Judge of Hale County in the November election. He will face a Republican nominee, in the November 6 General Election. Crawford won the April run-off [...]
Special to the NNPA from The Defenders Online In an historic decision, a North Carolina judge Friday reduced an inmate’s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole because the prosecutor had deliberately excluded black potential jurors during the jury-selection phase of the inmate’s trial. Judge Gregory A. Weeks, of Cumberland County Superior Court, [...]
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