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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
His speech to local NAACP was on working for change President Barack Obama's former pastor, whose fiery sermons ignited controversy during the election campaign last year, told a local NAACP chapter Friday night to remember the past while continuing to work for change.
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Interviews , Race and Civil Rights The reactions I received from those in the Your Black World Coalition in response to the decision by Heather Ellis to take the plea deal varied all the way across the board. There were some who felt that Heather had sold out the cause of her supporters by admitting guilt to something she maintains that she did not do. Then, there were those who felt...
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | yesterday
More charges have been filed in the case. What a horror show. Mario McNeill has been charged with murder. Both McNeill and Antoinette Davis (the egg donor) should face the death penalty...although Davis will likely get off easy. What's almost just as shocking as the case itself is the fact that both suspects are getting support from....guess who? Women of course. Black women. I know... I know, I shouldn't...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
His speech to local NAACP was on working for change President Barack Obama's former pastor, whose fiery sermons ignited controversy during the election campaign last year, told a local NAACP chapter Friday night to remember the past while continuing to work for change.
Tony's Kansas City (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
NBC Action News, thankfully, reports that local civil rights groups aren't so easily selling out their cause: Three of the city's most influential civil rights groups -- the NAACP, the Urban League and the local Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- will not join the Cordish Company's call for a dress code oversight board.
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Use old Sch’dy Armory for new science museum Prayer for free meal an improper quid pro quo Time for New York to ban outdoor wood boilers Obama foreign policy the biggest concern Let everybody, pols too, buy health insurance Schenectady’s NAACP is back, thank you
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
An event last night in South Quad brought stories of police brutality against people of color to University students. Cleo Silvers, an ex-Black Panther and civil rights activist, spoke at an event sponsored by the Michigan Student Assembly Peace and Justice Commission, MSA Minority Affairs Commission, the NAACP and South Quad Minority Peer Advisors.
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
For centuries, it has been viewed as the key to liberation and empowerment. Over the past couple of weeks, it has also been front and center in the news. Repeatedly. Headlines: "15 city school buildings on chopping block" (Nov. 3) "Achievement test highlights gap for Pittsburgh's black students" (Nov. 10) "City schools try to halt dropout rate" (Nov. 13) "Pittsburgh...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
No indeed : With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs. ... In speaking out on jobs, N.A.A.C.P. leaders say they are not trying to pick a fight with the first African-American president. Rather, they say, they are pressing Mr. Obama in an area where they believe he wants to be...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan CRANSTON, R.I. -- An inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions who claimed to be the president of the Statewide Prison Chapter of the NAACP in filing a racial-profiling suit against top state officials has no connection with the NAACP , Clifford Montiero, director for all NAACP activities in Rhode Island, said on Thursday. "He's a liar," Montiero said of Calvin Walker,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. The number of homeless students in Brevard County, Fla., more than doubled this year, reports Megan Downs of Florida Today , and for the first time the school district qualified for federal aid to help the deal with the problem. Many of the students are "in transition":...
The Hot Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I won't offer any critical position on The Princess & The Frog . I was not embargoed, but the truth is, there is so much moving around at Disney these days, I am going to assume the conservative position and remain silent, looking towards the next set of relationships. In any case... What I do want to say is that the film is remarkable free of race as an issue once you get past the first 20 minutes...
WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund's (LDF) Political Participation Group, has released "Post-Racial" America ? Not Yet , a report that details why voting rights continue to be an important issue, despite having President Barack Obama in the White House. The report does three things in particular. First it questions the "post-racial" argument being made among groups that challenge the...
Audacity Of Hypocrisy & Deception (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Conservatives are not the only ones that think the president’s stimulus package was a colossal failure. Believe it or not, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and La Raza are complaining that the stimulus has not worked, telling the president that he must do more to fight unemployment. With unemployment among African-Americans above 20 percent in several states, [...]
Drifting Through The Grift (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A point of view but fair. It could be the organically evolved creed of this three year exploration of citizen journalism. Long have I held the view that media as a whole is shackled by the unattainable goal of "objective reporting". (Having said that, before the furies of old world media descend, there is still a need for objective journalism, but it is part of the equation, not the whole.)...
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