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A long-simmering debate on where to erect the Delaware African-American Heritage Center may have come to an end this week when Wilmington Mayor James Baker selected the Delaware Historical Society to lead its operation. SEE ALSO: Romney Is A Mess In a News Journal report, Baker said that soon residents can visit a new venue […]
Residents of Baltimore and surrounding areas are invited to take part in the 12th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade which celebrates the life of one of America's most influential civil rights, political, and social icons.
A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants — even if they weren’t convicted of a crime. SEE ALSO: Rick Santorum Falls Hard The settlement announced Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is part of […]
The Shelby County school board in Birmingham, Alabama, is being forced to defend its decision to reinstate 4th grade teacher Danny Acker (pictured), after he was accused of molesting a student nearly 20 years ago. Now that the man is behind bars for doing the same thing to countless other children, the board’s feet are […]
In 2002, stripper Tamara Greene was rumored to have performed for then-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the city’s Manoogian Mansion. Months later, she turned up dead. SEE ALSO: Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat N’Dour Halts Music Career For Presidency In Detroit and elsewhere, the murder of Greene has been the subject of whispers and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his chief of staff William Daley is resigning after a year on the job to return to his native Chicago and spend more time with his family. Obama says Daley will be replaced by Budget Director Jack Lew, whom Obama called the “clear choice” for one of the […]
Tavis Smiley was set to deliver the keynote address at an MLK luncheon hosted by the Peoria Civic Center next week in central Illinois until a group of Obama supporters demanded that he be replaced or face a boycott, Politico reports. SEE ALSO: School Used Slavery Theme For Math Lesson Has No Child Left Behind […]
Across the nation, black men are killing each other at an alarming rates and the problem is only getting worse, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. SEE ALSO: Terrence Howard’s Nasty Divorce Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat While John-Hall reports that black male-on-black male killings are a national issue, she uses her home […]
A man whose wife delivered premature twins at the very same hospital where power pair Beyonce and Jay-Z had their girl is outraged that the couple’s security team kept him from seeing his ailing baby. SEE ALSO: Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby Blue Ivy Carter was delivered via C-section Saturday evening at […]