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BALTIMORE, MD–Radio One Founder & Chairperson of the Board, Cathy Hughes, received the Distinguished Civil Rights Advocate Award Wednesday night in Baltimore. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in conjuction with the National Bar Association awarded Ms. Hughes, who spoke of her commitment to helping the organization safegaurd the right to vote. Read […]
A Georgia community is mourning today after the death of a local rising football star. DJ Searcy, 16, was found unresponsive in his bed this morning at his team’s football camp being held in Columbia County, Fla. Searcy’s teammates and hundred of supporters gathered to pay their respects. The cause of death is unknown at […]
Via: http://www.866ourvote.org Proposed legislation that would require voters to produce photo identification at the polls is popping up in roughly half of the states across the country. These bills create new hurdles to the ballot box that are especially high for low income and minority voters who may not have the resources to get a […]
NEW ORLEANS–The city of New Orleans is meeting its subsidized housing demand with a new plan. Instead of crowding families in large subsidized plots, the city is building and mixing subsidized homes among its unsubsidized residences. The city, which tore down all of its public housing developments in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has opened […]
Myles Miller, the 17-year-old Black columnist and reporter who has been called “presidential material” by the office of New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, has been named associate editor at the Huffington Post. Miller, who started covering George W. Bush’s environmental initiatives as a youth reporter for Children’s Press Line, has also worked for CBS covering President Barack […]
Howard University is taking individuals on a ride through the pages of American Legacy Magazine. The quarterly, which chronicles African-American history, will unveil an 18-wheel mobile museum of Black history. The exhibition is across from the Howard University bookstore and features photos, stories, artifacts, memorabilia and interactive learning stations that celebrate the story of Blacks […]
NEW YORK — According to the Black Star News, legendary Black journalist and host of the long running New York City TV program, “Like It Is” on WABC, Gil Noble, has suffered a stroke. My dear brother and friend, Gil Noble, renowned journalist and long-time host of “Like It Is” suffered a stroke last week, […]
Etta James is not dead, her son said Thursday, contrary to a flurry of Twitter and Internet reports that stated that the great blues and R&B singer had passed away. “She’s fine. I just saw her last night and she was fine,” said son Donto James. Read more at LATimes RELATED: Blues singer Etta James […]
A writer for the Huffington Post has written an article on why African Americans are more likely to participate on the social networking site, Twitter, than white people. Instead, the research concluded that an interest in entertainment news was a “significant predictor” of Twitter use and that African American users were “more likely” than other […]
From our partner, TheGrio: President Obama turns 50 years old today. More than half-way through his first term, is the Obama presidency going through a mid-life crisis? A mid-life crisis comes for many adults at a turning point in life (or an administration) where an individual takes stock of where they are and makes adjustments based […]