The barbeque smoke permeated the Black community air on Martin Luther King’s birth date in 2012. Some people golfed, some were boating and many people participated in symbolic marches where they locked arms on one side with closet Klansmen and on the other side with neo-Nazis and walked a couple of blocks singing “We Shall […]
Pastor John P. Kee Releases New Single, “Life And Favor (You Don’t Know My Story)” and Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stellar Awards
Charlotte, NC – Twenty one-time Stellar Award winner, Pastor John P. Kee received the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award for his historical and significant contributions to gospel music at the 27th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards on Saturday, January 14 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN. Kirk Franklin presented the award to […]
Bill To Stop The Use of Credit History in Hiring Decisions Moves Forward With Additions
Tallahassee, FL – Legislation filed by Orlando Senator Gary Siplin to prohibit employers from using an individual’s credit history in hiring decisions passed from the Senate Committee on Commerce and Tourism today. Senate Bill 102 seeks to prohibit employers from using a job applicant’s personal credit history as a criterion for hiring, except where credit […]
Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant Celebrates Black History Month with 19 Years Announcing Nationwide Registration
Los Angeles – The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant celebrates Black History Month 2012 with this year’s event slated for be held Sunday, February 12, 2012, 4:00 p.m. at the Wishire Ebell Theater, 4401 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. The longest running pageant for little African American misses, the scholarship event has a history […]
Occupy Movement Looks Like Civil Rights Movement – by Dwayne West
Look what’s come from the Civil Rights Movement: community leaders, congressional men and women, celebrated pastors of mega churches, big money lobbyists and multimillion dollar businessmen, not to mention tens of thousands of corporate executives who have gone on to operate some of America’s most prominent companies. We must salute and honor the occupiers for […]
Political Geography May Impact Presidential Race – by Kirk Clay
While in Atlanta to speak on civil rights strategies for redistricting I visited friends who work in the hip-hop community. We began to talk about the implications that the dramatic population shifts will have on voting patterns in 2012. I cited the fact that based on the Census 2010 data confirmed that it is possible […]
Film & TV Star Vivica A. Fox to Speak to Women & Girls for Black Women’s Roundtable Healthy Wealthy & Wise Tour
Mims, FL – The Florida Coalition on Black Civic Participation has confirmed actress, producer and businesswoman, Vivica A. Fox, to speak during their Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) 2012 Healthy, Wealthy and Wise National Empowerment Tour taking place Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Center in Mims, FL. The goal […]
Prisonworld Magazine Publishers Jenny and Rufus Triplett Named Ebony Magazine’s “Couple of the Year”
Atlanta, GA – Jenny and Rufus Triplett have always kept it real. The couple has survived incarceration, raised three young men, run their own multimedia company and are celebrating 22 years of successful marriage. Out of all their many trials and tribulations however, Ebony Magazine’s recent designation as “Couple of the Year” is perhaps the […]
The Role of Black Intellectuals – Too Much Talk, Not Enough Action? by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Cornel West wrote in 1985 that the black intellectual was “caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community.” Twenty-seven years later, with a black president in office his words have the insistence of a drum roll. We see President Barack Obama battered by the harsh racism of a Republican right in Congress […]