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 [...]
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 [...]
MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry is the latest edition to MSNBC’s expanding weekend lineup. Her new program, set to air Saturdays and Sundays 10a-noon ET, will debut on MSNBC February 4th. The announcement was made by MSNBC President Phil Griffin. Chris Hayes will continue to lead off MSNBC’s weekend programming with his popular roundtable program ‘Up,’ [...]
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A national group of Black clergy, led by former NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Chavis, is aiming to reverse the Black unemployment rate by changing the economic mindset of Black people. “You’d be surprised that a lot of people ask why we are the most unemployed. The say we need [...]
Fairfax, GA- Hundreds of young American minority college students in their final year of college are in immediate danger of not graduating. “They have hit the economic wall and have nowhere else to turn,” said Pearl Algere-Lonian, Director of Financial Aid at Xavier University of Louisiana, one of the 38 historically black colleges and universities [...]
Coalition Calls the Law Racially Discriminatory; Asks Justice Department to Intervene CHARLESTON — A coalition of civil rights and advocacy groups has again asked the U. S. Department of Justice to block a South Carolina law that would prevent registered voters from casting ballots at the polls on Election Day unless they have government-approved photo [...]
College Park, MD (December 7, 2011)-Today, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of public relations pioneer Ofield Dukes, Founder of Ofield Dukes & Associates, a prominent African-American owned public relations firm in Washington, DC. Dukes died early this morning at Henry Ford Hospital in his hometown of Detroit. Born August 8, [...]
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation joined The Assembly of Petworth the D.C. Department of Health, and United Planning Organization to host a press conference marking National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 4-10. The press conference and a mini-free flu vaccination clinic was held at the United Planning Organization “Petey” Greene Community Service Center in [...]
A new report reveals direct connections between the trend of increasing, unprecedented African American and Latino voter turnout and an onslaught of restrictive measures across the country designed to stem electoral strength among communities of color, especially in regions where full political participation can reverse the tide of policies that undermine rights of racial and [...]
Via Huffington Post – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has been speaking out and reflecting on her time spent in the White House, much of which she recounts in her memoir “No Higher Honor.” During an interview on a special Thanksgiving edition of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Rice talked about her perspective on race [...]
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