From the daily archives: Thursday, June 7, 2012
(AP) WASHINGTON – The strength of President Barack Obama’s bid for a second term faced a key test Tuesday in a Wisconsin election to decide whether the Republican governor of the Midwestern state, a hero of the deeply conservative tea-party movement, should be ousted more than two years early. At press time, results show Walker [...]
By STAFF, Associated Press, May 29, 2012 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The son of Malcolm X’s biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations, claiming his family is the rightful owner. Malcolm X wrote to Alex Haley, his collaborator [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network May 29 (GIN) – A fund to harness the financial resources of African citizens abroad was endorsed this week by African leaders at the wind-up of the Global African Diaspora Summit, held in Johannesburg. The fund, managed by the African Union Commission, would lure the Diaspora [...]
Special to the NNPA from The North Dallas Gazette The social safety net for high school dropouts is gone forever. When the manufacturing base in the U.S. was strong, a young man could drop out of high school and safely land at a factory with an $18 an hour job. Today, young African American [...]
By George E. Curry, Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After having his bond revoked by a judge who wonders whether he was deliberately misled by George Zimmerman and his wife, the admitted killer of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin remains confined to his cell in the Polk County Correctional Facility in Sanford, [...]
The Eutaw Police Department has acquired a new drug search dog. Asta, a female German Shepherd, was intensively trained by Ricky Farley of the K-9 Law Enforcement Training Center in Samantha, AL. The name Asta is Scandinavian for star and love. She will concentrate mostly on drugs, having been trained to sniff out four [...]
At a call meeting on Thursday, May 31, 2012, Greene County Commission announced that the county has been awarded a $1.3 million federal project grant to resurface County Road 20. According to the announcement from Gov. Robert Bentley’s office, the Greene Co. Project, was selected for funding under Phase One of the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation [...]
The Black Belt Arts Initiative Project (BBAI) awarded five community arts grants to local Greene County non-profit groups in the recent 2012 arts grant cycle. Across the 12 Black Belt counties served by BBAI, 42 community arts grants were given totaling $100,000. No single grant exceeded $3,000 and the combined funded projects will [...]
The Alabama Conference of Black Mayors (ACBM) will hold its 40th anniversary meeting and celebration in Eutaw, Alabama on Friday, May 8, 2012. This is the first time the organization has met in Greene County. Raymond Steele, Mayor of Eutaw, is the current President of the statewide organization founded in 1972. [...]
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