May 26, 2018         
Nintendo Download: Dillon Rocks, and Rolls, in His Return   •   Donaldson Foundation Announces Support for Wounded Veterans   •   The ZAC Foundation Marks 10 Years of Water Safety Education & Advocacy   •   Defend Against the Top Eight Summer Smile Threats   •   DMC Harper University Hospital’s Adult Kidney Transplant Program Scores High Ratings Related to Outcomes and Quality   •   Karen Walton Receives The 2018 Nell Shipman Award   •   Paralyzed Veterans of America Leaders Convene in Minneapolis for 72nd Annual Convention   •   Personal Training Pioneer Fitness Together Announces Increase to 20 Percent Discount on Initial Franchise Fees for Veterans and   •   Swiffer Tackles the Hairiest Home Situations for Pet Owners Because Shed Happens   •   ClassPass Announces Aggressive Global Expansion Plans, Brings on VP of International   •   The Search for the 172 African-American Soldiers Memorialized at Margraten   •   Elligo Health Research Announces Acquisition of ePatientFinder Clinical Trial Exchange Technology Platform and Practice Network   •   Kids Bike Safety Event at Ken Carlson Boys & Girls Club Includes Free Pizza, Kids Bike Giveaways through Colavita Cares Camp   •   Minister O'Regan and Canadian Veterans ready to depart for Korea   •   Celebrities Honor Veterans in New York City, During Wounded Warrior Project Benefit Dinner   •   Publix Names New Vice President of Pharmacy   •   Veterans Charity Helps Warriors Create Well-Balanced Meals   •   Victoria's Secret Hosts Villa Victoria   •   Solutionreach Takes the ParityPledge™   •   University Games Announces Acquisition Of The Haywire Group
www.blackradionetwork.com > Civil Rights
PROTESTS IN TIMES SQUARE

PROTESTS IN TIMES SQUARE

A number of civil rights demonstrators have been arrested in New York’s Times Square while protesting the police-related shootings nationally of two black men this week. ... read more
NEW YORKERS REMEMBER ORLANDO

NEW YORKERS REMEMBER ORLANDO

In a stirring tribute, thousands of New Yorkers have gathered at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village to honor the victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre. ... read more
9/11 TRIBUTE TO ORLANDO

9/11 TRIBUTE TO ORLANDO

Officials and residents of New York have gathered at the site of the 9/11 Memorial in a show of solidarity with Orlando and the mass shooting which occurred there. ... read more
IN SOLIDARITY WITH ORLANDO

IN SOLIDARITY WITH ORLANDO

Hundreds of people gathered inside New York’s Grand Central Station to rally in solidarity with the Orlando shooting victims. ... read more
Anger Over Public Education

Anger Over Public Education

NEW YORK - Thousands of mostly minority young people and their parents crowded the streets of Lower Manhattan today to demand greater financial support for charter schools which they claim is needed because of the poor quality of the City’s public schools. ... read more
HALLOWEEN TREAT FOR INNER CITY KIDS

HALLOWEEN TREAT FOR INNER CITY KIDS

NEW YORK - New York City's Mayor Bill De Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray today opened their official residence Gracie Mansion to an invited group of inner city kids and their parents to celebrate Halloween a few days early. ... read more
LOW WAGED WORKERS DEMAND MORE

LOW WAGED WORKERS DEMAND MORE

NEW YORK - Hundreds of tipped and low-wage workers, mostly minorities from the fast-food and car wash industries, rallied through the streets of Harlem today urging New York State officials to do away with the law permitting sub-minimum wage for 229,000 tipped workers in the State. ... read more
MINORITIES PROTEST NYPD ACTIONS

MINORITIES PROTEST NYPD ACTIONS

... read more
HISPANIC DAY PARADE IN NYC

HISPANIC DAY PARADE IN NYC

... read more
NY SUPPORT FOR HONG KONG PROTESTERS

NY SUPPORT FOR HONG KONG PROTESTERS

... read more
NYC HOLDS RACIAL SUMMIT WITH CLERGY

NYC HOLDS RACIAL SUMMIT WITH CLERGY

... read more
THOUSANDS PROTEST DEATH OF BLACK MAN DURING ARREST BY NYPD

THOUSANDS PROTEST DEATH OF BLACK MAN DURING ARREST BY NYPD

... read more
NY'S WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE: PAGENTRY AND VIOLENCE

NY'S WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE: PAGENTRY AND VIOLENCE

... read more
FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE FOR BETTER PAY

FAST FOOD WORKERS STRIKE FOR BETTER PAY

NEW YORK - Thousands of workers from McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and other fast food outlets nationally are striking today to seek better wages ... read more
REGULATE TIMES SQUARE COSTUMED CHARACTERS?

REGULATE TIMES SQUARE COSTUMED CHARACTERS?

NEW YORK - Should the costumed characters in Times Square who pose for photos with tourists for tips---the likes of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Batman and Spiderman--- be regulated by New York City? ... read more
Asian-Americans Make Demands on China

Asian-Americans Make Demands on China

... read more
NY City Council Probes NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy

NY City Council Probes NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy

... read more
Fed Report Blasts

Fed Report Blasts "Heavy-Handed" Puerto-Rico Police

Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) has engaged in a pattern and practice of misconduct that violates the Constitution and federal law. The investigation, launched in July 2008, was conducted in accordance with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. ... read more
CA Gov Vetoes Bill Prohibiting

CA Gov Vetoes Bill Prohibiting "English Only"

California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed SB 111, a language rights bill authored by San Francisco Congressman Leland Yee. According to Yee's office, SB 111 was landmark legislation that would have prohibited businesses from denying service to a patron because of the language he or she speaks. ... read more
MT Senators Seek Congressional Gold Medal For Cobell

MT Senators Seek Congressional Gold Medal For Cobell

Montana Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus today introduced legislation to award Montana's Elouise Cobell the Congressional Gold Medal. Cobell, a citizen of the Blackfeet Nation, is being recognized for ‘her outstanding and enduring contributions to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and the Nation through her tireless pursuit of justice.' ... read more
Black Contractors To Protest Mississippi Bridge Project

Black Contractors To Protest Mississippi Bridge Project

Work on the new $700 million Mississippi River Bridge north of downtown St. Louis could come to a halt next week. East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks and the Metro-East Black Contractors Organization announced their plans ... read more
Report: Poverty Linked To Minority Health

Report: Poverty Linked To Minority Health

After a decade-long rise in concentrated poverty, one in 11 residents of metropolitan areas now live in communities where at least 30 percent of their neighbors are poor, according to a pair of studies unveiled today by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The reports, A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisi ... read more
Minorities Targeted By War On Terrorism

Minorities Targeted By War On Terrorism

An investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting into the counter-terrorism program at the Mall of America near Minneapolis, found that it often ensnares seemingly innocent people with the FBI and other law enforcement organizations. Ever since 9/11, the nation’s leaders have warned that government agencies can’t protect ... read more
CA Black Community Rallies For LA Sports Complex

CA Black Community Rallies For LA Sports Complex

Citing Black unemployment, minority rights groups in the Black community are calling on California Senator Alan Lowenthal and all California legislators to stand up for jobs, especially for those hit hardest by the recession. The protest is co-sponsored ... read more
BLACK KILLER'S DEATH DATE UPROAR

BLACK KILLER'S DEATH DATE UPROAR

Georgia is scheduling the execution later this month of an inmate who has won worldwide support for his claims of innocence in the 1989 slaying of a Savannah police officer, his attorney said Tuesday. A Chatham County judge signed the death warrant for Troy Davis yesterday, marking the fourth time since 2007 ... read more
NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case

NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and Black voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws. In the lawsuit, Florida v. United States, Florida asks a federal court to approve, under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, voting measures that would significantly alter Florida's voting process. ... read more
Latinos Eye Texas Redistricting Trial

Latinos Eye Texas Redistricting Trial

Texas Republicans will face off against Democrats and minority advocacy groups this week in the first trial related to contested redistricting maps approved by the Legislature earlier this year. The trial will combine several federal lawsuits, The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) will present its case seeking equal representation for Texas Latinos in the congressional and State House redistricting plans. ... read more
White Supremacist Sentenced For Hate Crime

White Supremacist Sentenced For Hate Crime

In January 2010, Zachary Beck and two other white supremacists attacked a black man in downtown Vancouver, Wash., yelling, "White Power!" "You're dead!" and racist slurs. In U.S. District court, Beck was sentenced to 51 months in prison. According to court documents, Beck and his co-conspirators, Kory Boyd and Lawrence Silk, attacked a Black man in a Vancouver sports bar on Jan. 7, 2010, because of the man’s race. ... read more
Study Debunks Minority Financial Aid Myth

Study Debunks Minority Financial Aid Myth

A new report by financial aid and college planning author, Mark Kantrowitz, challenges the assumption that college grant money flows disproportionately to members of minority groups. Kantrowitz, an ABD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, says his paper presents data concerning the distribution of grants and scholarships by race. It debunks the race myth, which claims that minority students receive more than their fair share of scholarships. ... read more
Latino Voting Advocates Object To Texas Redistricting

Latino Voting Advocates Object To Texas Redistricting

Advocates for LULAC that included former Congressman Ciro D. Rodriguez, National LULAC Counsel Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., Maverick County Judge David Saucedo and John Tanner, former Department of Justice Voting Rights Section ... read more
Racial Disparities Found In Military Death Penalty Cases

Racial Disparities Found In Military Death Penalty Cases

A study by a group of law and statistics professors found that minorities in the military were twice as likely to be sentenced to death than their white counterparts. Professor David Baldus of the University of Iowa College of Law and associate professor Catherine Grosso of the Michigan State University College of Law, the study's lead authors, ... read more
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS

BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS

The Labor Department released the August jobs report today showing that while unemployment figures remained unchanged from July's 9.1 percent. Black unemployment climbed to 16.7 percent. This is the highest its been since 1984. The unemployment rate for Black males rose a whole percentage point to 18.0 percent and the rate for Black youths aged 16–19 jumped from 39.2 to 46.5 percent. ... read more
Louisiana Prisons Put Black Voting Power At Risk

Louisiana Prisons Put Black Voting Power At Risk

Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The Farm” because of its plantation-like set-up, it houses almost 5,300 men, of whom 3,900 are serving life sentences, 968 face terms of 40 years or more, and 83 are on death row. The prison is located 90 minutes ... read more
Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding

Minority Groups Stress Transportation Funding

Following President Obama’s call for a “clean extension” of the surface transportation bill and a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Leadership Conference Education Fund released a new report, “Getting to Work: Transportation Policy and Access to Job Opportunities,” which highlights how inequities in transportation ... read more
Judge Reviewing Black Farmer Settlement

Judge Reviewing Black Farmer Settlement

U.S. Federal District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington is reviewing the $1.25 billion settlement in a class action stemming from allegations the government discriminated against black farmers in loan processing. Friedman met for about eight hours with the plaintiffs' team, government lawyers and farmers, some of whom traveled ... read more
Video

White House Live Stream
LIVE VIDEO EVERY SATURDAY
Breaking News
alsharpton Rev. Al Sharpton
9 to 11 am EST
jjackson Rev. Jesse Jackson
10 to noon CST


Video

LIVE BROADCASTS
Sounds Make the News ®
WAOK-Urban
Atlanta - WAOK-Urban
KPFA-Progressive
Berkley / San Francisco - KPFA-Progressive
WVON-Urban
Chicago - WVON-Urban
KJLH - Urban
Los Angeles - KJLH - Urban
WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
New York - WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
WADO-Spanish
New York - WADO-Spanish
WBAI - Progressive
New York - WBAI - Progressive
WOL-Urban
Washington - WOL-Urban

Listen to United Natiosns News