By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News A bid to secure a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero, has been rejected out of hand by the Barack Obama White House in Washington. But the Administration’s rejection is unlikely to end the campaign in [...]
By Cyril Josh Barker Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Each day of the weekend, millions of Americans hit the highways to get to their weekend vacation destinations. However, the lack of a simple task is killing Blacks on the roads at an alarming rate.According to the U.S. Department of Transportation [...]
By Trymaine Lee, Huffington Post The family of James C. Anderson, a black man allegedly beaten by a gang of seven white teenagers who then mowed him down with a pickup truck in Jackson, Mississippi, filed a wrongful death lawsuit today. The suit filed by the family’s attorney, Winston J. Thompson III, with cooperation from [...]
By Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune WASHINGTON — The past couple of weeks were overflowing with headlines of agitated Black Members of Congress throwing tantrums at the tea party, the president and anything that could create distance between them and the wrath of frustrated Black constituents looking for jobs. [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service formally welcomed the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial as America’s 395th national park on Aug. 28 – the 48th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln [...]
The Alabama New South Coalition (ANSC) has scheduled its Fall Membership Convention for Saturday, October 1, 2011 in Montgomery, AL. Under the Convention’s theme: Keeping the Vigil on the Vote, ANSC is planning several workshops to address continuing community concerns and struggles regarding immigration, other human rights issues and the impact of voting on our [...]
The Black Belt Community Foundation will host its tenth Community Grant Award Ceremony on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:00 pm in the Hank Sanders Technology Center on the campus of Wallace Community College in Selma, AL. BBCF is proud to highlight the most diverse group of grantees in BBCF history. These forty-five organizations [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher At the conclusion of Thursday’s full day hearing on the fairness of the proposed settlement in the Pigford II, Black Farmers class action discrimination lawsuit against USDA, Federal District Judge Paul Friedman for the District of Columbia said he would “act very promptly on the joint motion of lawyers for [...]
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