More than 100 students attended the 1st Annual Teen Summit sponsored by the Greene County Board of Education Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Greene County High School. According to School Superintendent Emma Louie, the plans for the Teen Summit grew out of a request from a couple of high school students to hold [...]
The Save Ourselves Summit II scheduled for Saturday, April 28, 2012 at Miles College in Fairfield, AL will be rescheduled, according to Dr. Roberta Watts, ANSC State President and chairperson of Summit organizing committee. “Conflicting events on the same date, including the Women’s Rally in Montgomery and the Young Democrats meeting in Selma; slow mobilization [...]
Following a public hearing on April 9, the Greene County Commission unanimously approved a resolution and order to increase the Ad Valorem Tax in Greene County by 3 mills. This will be an increase from the current 14 mills received by the school system. On March 29 a joint working session between the Commission and [...]
Mattie Atkins won Tuesday’s runoff election for Greene County Circuit Clerk overwhelmingly by a vote of 1,884 (68%) to 887 (32%) for Loretta Webb Wilson. Atkins carried every one of the 15 polling stations in Greene County some by substantial margins. Atkins becomes the Democratic candidate for Circuit Clerk in the November General Election. Since [...]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Major League Baseball continued its three-year old tradition of Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the legendary African-American athlete who broke the color barrier of pro baseball when he became the first Black by signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers 65 years ago. Every player and manager of every team league-wide sported Robinson’s [...]
Special to the Atlanta Voice Southern Christian Leadership Conference national president Isaac Newton Farris Jr., who accepted the group’s top leadership post just nine months ago, has been replaced as head of the venerable civil rights organization, officials announced Friday. SCLC board president Dr. Bernard LaFayette would not say whether Farris [...]
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, [...]
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was released from jail on bond shortly after midnight Monday morning and left for an undisclosed destination. Zimmerman, who wore a brown jacket and blue jeans, was fitted with an electronic monitoring device before being released. [...]
by Harry Siegel, Ben Jacobs, The Daily Beast April 11, 2012: After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable Black endorsers, surrogates, or high-ranking campaign staffers. So far, Romney’s highest-profile endorsement from a Black supporter might be Aubrey Fenton, a [...]
MONTGOMERY—The Fiscal Year 2013 General Fund budget passed the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday with an unprecedented 38 percent cut to the Alabama Medicaid Agency, an agency that provides health care coverage for more than 900,000 Alabamians. These cuts are poised to threaten access and ultimately drive up healthcare costs for ALL [...]
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