From the monthly archives: March 2012
By Chris Levister Special to the NNPA from Black News Voices To combat the high toll of HIV and AIDS among Black women in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched Take Charge. Take the Test., a new campaign to increase HIV testing and awareness among African-American women. The [...]
By Charles Hallman Special to the NNPA from the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder All last week, endless bracket stories were told ad nauseam. But not a Mavis Staples hoot about Richard Lapchick’s annual “Keeping Score When it Counts” report on NCAA men’s and women’s tournament teams. Lapchick, director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in [...]
by Tene’ Croom, Special to the NNPA “It’s become, I guess, in vogue not to worry about diversity and use the economy as an excuse for not having diversity. But, where was that excuse 20 years ago when the economy was rolling well and all newsrooms were flush with cash and the numbers still were [...]
Family attorney Benjamin Crump, left, and Rev. Al Sharpton, rear, listen as Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton, center, and Tracy Martin, right, speak to thousands at rally. In a press conference last week, President Barack Obama commented on the case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager in Sanford, Florida, who was killed by George [...]
Chris McGreal -guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 March The US Supreme Court begins a final day of hearings over the constitutionality of Barack Obama’s sweeping health reforms that has taken on added significance after a majority of justices appeared to tilt against the legislation on Tuesday. The third day of hearings will consider whether [...]
By: John Zippert, Co-Publisher, Greene County Democrat Epes, Alabama; March 23, 2012: “Time is running out for Black farmers who want to make a claim in the Pigford II – Black Farmers Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Agriculture. As of Friday, March 30, there will only be six weeks [...]
As part of the agenda at the regular meeting of the Greene County Board of Education on Monday, March 25, the board approved a revised date assessment for the new high school. They expect construction to begin on June 11, 2012 and completion to be on June 10, 2013 with occupancy and move-in to be [...]
In a meeting that lasted over two hours, the Eutaw City Council agreed to grant Rock-Tenn box plant a tax abatement which Manager Dan Williams said was critical if the plant were to remain in Greene County. The normal policy on these kinds of abatements is to enable a company to provide more jobs. Williams [...]
At their regular monthly meeting, the Greene County Board of Education went on record as opposing Charter Schools in Alabama. The term “charter school” can be applied to any school which is non-profit and non-religious-based. The proposed Charter School Bill (HB5 541) would allow these schools to receive the same state and local funding now [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper D.C. police arrested protesters that included Oscar winning actor George Clooney, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, Martin Luther King III and five members of Congress March 16 in front of the Sudanese Embassy during a demonstration against that government’s denial of food and aid to its people.“We need [...]
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