From the daily archives: Thursday, January 5, 2012
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Dec. 27 (GIN) –Amidst the grieving for victims of Tuesday’s bombing of a Christmas mass by an anti-government Islamic sect, Nigerian religious and political leaders begged for calm between the country’s major religious groups which have been at odds before. “We are Nigerians. [...]
By Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Jamaa (s/n R.N. Dewberry), A. Guillen Special to the NNPA from the San Francisco BayView A Letter from the Pelican Bay inmates currently in the prisoner hunger strike A shout-out of respect and solidarity from the Pelican Bay Short Corridor Collective to all similarly situated prisoners subject to the [...]
December 22, 2011: Last week, a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed itself to reinstate a jury’s finding that John Hithon, an African-American worker at a Tyson Foods plant in Gadsden, Alabama, was discriminated against by his employer. This case began in 1996 when, Hithon’s supervisor twice passed him over for [...]
By Pat Hendricks Munson Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel “Please come home for Christmas. If not for Christmas by New Year’s night” – blues singer Charles Brown. Family and friends who’ve sat around listening to and singing this Christmas classic are now breathing a sigh of relief as they welcome home [...]
What does it mean that just a handful of counties, mostly in the South, are responsible for the majority of executions in the US? By: David A Love, guardian.co.uk, 3 January 2012 The application of the US death penalty is unfair, arbitrary and racially biased. Whether a defendant receives a death sentence [...]
The year 2011 started off with a triumph when on January 26 the USDA announced approval of a $250 million loan for Coskata. a biorefinery, to locate in Boligee. Coskata plans to make ethanol fuel from wood chips. On April 7, officials from Coskata came to Boligee and visited the site along with members of [...]
On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, Greenetrack, Inc. issued $53,854.84 in bingo receipts for the month of December, 2010. The Greenetrack checks were presented to Sheriff Jonathan Benison for distribution to the various governmental entities as earmarked in the Sheriff’s Bingo Rules and Regulations. In these recent distributions from Greenetrack the Greene County Commission [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher The first six weeks of the 180 day claim period in the Pigford II – Black Farmers Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit have just been completed. May 11, 2012 is the final day for Black farmers to make a claim in this case. The Pigford II claims process is [...]
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