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Grant Money To Be Devoted To Reducing Racial Health Inequities

March 02, 2010
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BLACK RELATIONSHIP SPECIALIST, DR. AARON TURPEAU, HAS LAUNCHED A NEW WEBSITE DEVOTED TO BLACK RELATIONSHIPS

BLACK RELATIONSHIP SPECIALIST, DR. AARON TURPEAU, HAS LAUNCHED A NEW WEBSITE DEVOTED TO BLACK RELATIONSHIPS

May 15, 2009
Describing his calling Dr. Turpeau says, "I recognize that my calling is to help Black individuals and couples in crisis. People who want internal and external harmony in their lives. ... read more
NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case

NAACP Intervenes In Florida Minority Voting Rights Case

September 07, 2011
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
Confederate Flags Banned In VA City

Confederate Flags Banned In VA City

September 02, 2011
The city council in Lexington, Va., just voted to prohibit flying the Confederate flag on city-owned poles. The decision sparked anger among some Lexington residents, who see the Confederacy as a link to the town's past. After a 2 1/2-hour public hearing, the Lexington City Council voted 4-1 to allow only U.S., Virginia and city flags to be flown. ... read more
Latinos Concerned By Education Law Waivers

Latinos Concerned By Education Law Waivers

September 01, 2011
Members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are voicing concerns over what is says are efforts lead by the Department of Education that could have negative impact for low income and minority youth. According to LULAC, the Department of Education’s recent efforts to provide relief to state and local education agencies from key provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has the potential to water down the law’s ... read more
Al Gore Compares Climate Change Skeptics To Racists

Al Gore Compares Climate Change Skeptics To Racists

August 30, 2011
In an interview with FearLess Revolution founder, Alex Bogusky, former U.S. vice President Al Gore compared the debate over climate change to the Civil Rights movement in the US in the 1960s. This comparison has sparked negative reaction from members of the black leadership network, Project 21. The group condemned Gore’s attempt to "injected race into the debate over emissions regulations by comparing those ... read more
Law Professor Says Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities

Law Professor Says Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities

August 29, 2011
The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the State Bar must release racial data from the bar exam to a law professor who believes affirmative action may hurt minorities. A SF Gate report states an appellate court had ruled in June that the professor, and the public, have a right of access to records of the lawyers' organization ... read more

CHEROKEES EXPEL SLAVE KIN

August 24, 2011
In a controversial decision, the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court has ruled to expel from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners. The nation's second-largest Indian tribe voted after the Civil War to admit the slave descendants to the tribe. ... read more

Union Head Blasts GOP Over Black Job Crisis

August 12, 2011
This summer, millions of working families got a front-row seat to the dysfunctional leadership of Republicans in Congress who proved once again that they just don’t get it. The national unemployment rate is 9.1%. For blacks, the unemployment rate is hovering around 16 percent. Instead of creating solutions for the jobs crisis, Republicans are killing jobs and destroying the American Dream. ... read more

ACLU Issues Report On Reducing US Incarceration Rates

August 09, 2011
Bipartisan reforms in historically “tough on crime” states have significantly reduced incarceration rates, saved taxpayers billions of dollars, lowered crime rates and should be emulated nationwide, according to a new report ... read more

Civil Rights Icon Eleanor Josaitis Dies at 79

August 09, 2011
Eleanor Josaitis was a stay-at-home mom, raising five kids in Taylor, Michigan in the 1960s, when she decided she wanted to help build racial harmony in Detroit's segregated communities. So she packed up her family and moved them to Detroit's Sherwood Forest neighborhood after the 1967 riots. ... read more

Latest CA Redistricting Maps Leave Latinos Dissatisfied

August 01, 2011
Now that the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has approved new political boundaries for the state, civil rights groups are weighing what impact the maps will have on communities of color. Local sources report ... read more

Black Conservatives Blast Democratic Official

July 21, 2011
The black conservative group, Project 21, today is criticizing white Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is head of the Democratic National Committee. The group says Wasserman Schultz unaccountably targeted a black colleague, Republican congressman Allen West ... read more

Cherokee Nation Election Drags On

July 19, 2011
Tribal members and the candidates themselves were growing increasingly frustrated with the drawn-out Cherokee election process, as the tribe's Supreme Court prepared to continue hearing arguments Tuesday in Chad Smith's appeal. Local sources report the appeal, filed July 5, requests that the court either order ... read more

The World Marks Mandela Day

July 18, 2011
Millions of South Africans are celebrating the 93rd birthday of their former president Nelson Mandela today. Mandela Day, was inaugurated in 2009, and declared an international day by the United Nations that November. Mandela Day was inspired by a call made by Mandela himself for the next generation to take on the burden of leadership in addressing the world's social injustices. As a result people around the world have been asked to mark the occasion by devoting 67 minutes ... read more

Has Cornel West Gone Too Far?

July 14, 2011
As President Obama is gearing up for his 2012 campaign and election, Dr. Cornel West has created a name calling and mudslinging crusade attacking the president. An editorial in The Westside Gazette, Broward County’s Oldest and Largest African American Owned and Operated Newspaper says, there is nothing wrong ... read more
Al Sharpton Teams To Discuss Sexual Diversity Among Black Men

Al Sharpton Teams To Discuss Sexual Diversity Among Black Men

July 08, 2011
In response to the brewing controversy around homosexuality and the Black community, the Black Men's Xchange (BMX) National has joined forces with the National Action Network and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to present the community forum I AM A MAN: Black Manhood & Sexual Diversity in the Black Community next Saturday at the National Action Network in New York. ... read more
Bill To Establish Immigrant Museum On National Mall Intro'd

Bill To Establish Immigrant Museum On National Mall Intro'd

July 08, 2011
Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat, today introduced legislation to create a Presidential Commission to study the establishment of a Museum of the American People devoted to the role immigration and migration played in development of American society. The legislation enjoys the ... read more
MICHIGAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN KO'D

MICHIGAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN KO'D

July 01, 2011
Michigan's ban on using race and gender as a factor in admission to public colleges and universities was overturned today by a federal appeals court, which said the voter-approved measure harms minorities and is unconstitutional. ... read more
Newly Elected Black Mayors Make Jobs A Priority

Newly Elected Black Mayors Make Jobs A Priority

June 29, 2011
The recent elections of Alvin Brown as Jacksonville, Florida’s first African American mayor and Michael Hancock as Denver’s second Black mayor, provide much needed new hope and leadership in the war on unemployment. Both Brown and Hancock have strong Urban League roots and both have made job creation in their ... read more
House Rejects GOP Bill To Terminate Election Assistance Commission

House Rejects GOP Bill To Terminate Election Assistance Commission

June 22, 2011
The Congressional Tri-Caucus members denounced Republican efforts to terminate the Election Assistance Commission, the agency Congress created in the wake of the debacle in Florida during the 2000 Presidential Election. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Elections Subcommittee Ranking Member and Congressional Hispanic Caucus ... read more
First Black To Head March Of Dimes

First Black To Head March Of Dimes

June 21, 2011
LaVerne Council, a longtime March of Dimes volunteer leader and Board member, was elected as the first black chair of the organization's national Board of Trustees. Council is only the second woman to head the 73-year-old national organization. ... read more
New Evidence Could Win Medal of Honor For Black WWI Hero

New Evidence Could Win Medal of Honor For Black WWI Hero

June 06, 2011
Despite federal policy that denied blacks combat roles in white American units, the Hellcats distinguished themselves in battle. ... read more
Sentencing Commission Urged To Apply Guidelines Retroactively

Sentencing Commission Urged To Apply Guidelines Retroactively

June 01, 2011
“It would be cruel to change policy because of the injustice they suffered only to deny them relief." ... read more
TEA PARTY COURTING MINORITES?

TEA PARTY COURTING MINORITES?

May 26, 2011
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Cesar Chavez Center Nominated For Nat'l Historic Registry

Cesar Chavez Center Nominated For Nat'l Historic Registry

May 25, 2011
“40 Acres and other historical sites in the town of Delano were where the first half of the story of Cesar Chavez and the farm worker civil rights movement took place." ... read more
AZ's Immigration Bill Could Face Long Road To Supreme Court

AZ's Immigration Bill Could Face Long Road To Supreme Court

May 13, 2011
“It’s highly unlikely that the Supreme Court would take the case at this point,” said MALDEF president, Thomas A. Saenz. ... read more
Blacks Support Ban Of Menthol Cigarettes

Blacks Support Ban Of Menthol Cigarettes

May 12, 2011
A ban is supported by a majority of Americans (56 percent), particularly African Americans (76 percent) who were found to be disproportionately affected. ... read more
Senate Confirms 1st Asian Judge For CA Court

Senate Confirms 1st Asian Judge For CA Court

May 11, 2011
“This is welcome news for an overworked federal bench that has waited almost two years for Judge Edward Chen’s confirmation.” ... read more
Hispanic Cosmetics Icon Dies

Hispanic Cosmetics Icon Dies

May 11, 2011
She was a very good person, to the point of giving many of her employees the down payment they needed to buy a house. ... read more

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