http://www.dogonvillage.com Connecting the Black Diaspora with news, politics, and issues important to African-Americans Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/05/black-people-out-voted-whites-black-women-surpassed-all-voters-in-2012/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/05/black-people-out-voted-whites-black-women-surpassed-all-voters-in-2012/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3766 Washington, DC – Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) and convener of Black Women’s Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U. S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding that about two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/05/black-people-out-voted-whites-black-women-surpassed-all-voters-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-get-the-job-done/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-get-the-job-done/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:45:07 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3724 Washington, DC – Over 300 Black women from ten states traveled to the US Capitol last week to urge representatives to pass policies and programs that empower Black and underserved families, especially single mothers and the working-poor. Issues the women addressed as they visited the offices of their congressional leaders included: public education, gun violence [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-get-the-job-done/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-assert-their-agenda-with-visits-to-capitol-hill-and-the-white-house-during-bwr-women-of-power-summit/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-assert-their-agenda-with-visits-to-capitol-hill-and-the-white-house-during-bwr-women-of-power-summit/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:40:03 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3694 Washington, DC – Women of power from ten states will celebrate International Women’s History Month with a bang, converging on the nation’s capitol to visit elected officials reminding them that Black women who voted in record numbers expect our leaders to stop the partisan politics and pass legislation that creates good paying jobs with livable [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2013/03/black-women-assert-their-agenda-with-visits-to-capitol-hill-and-the-white-house-during-bwr-women-of-power-summit/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/11/black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-unites-a-diverse-group-of-women-leaders-and-organizations-in-support-of-united-nations-ambassador-susan-rice/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/11/black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-unites-a-diverse-group-of-women-leaders-and-organizations-in-support-of-united-nations-ambassador-susan-rice/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:51:27 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3653 Washington, DC – A diverse group of women leaders and organizations have joined forces with the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) to launch a campaign to express their unequivocal support of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and to encourage senate and congressional leaders to treat the esteemed public servant with respect. In addition to signing on [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/11/black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-unites-a-diverse-group-of-women-leaders-and-organizations-in-support-of-united-nations-ambassador-susan-rice/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/black-youth-vote-hustles-hard-to-keep-the-swagger-going-with-ithink2012-campaign/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/black-youth-vote-hustles-hard-to-keep-the-swagger-going-with-ithink2012-campaign/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:45:38 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3617 Washington, DC – Determined to keep the swagger going among their peers, Black Youth Vote! (BYV!), the youth program of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), is hustling hard as they transition their iThink 2012 Campaign efforts from voter registration to voter education and mobilization for the last days of the 2012 Presidential [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/black-youth-vote-hustles-hard-to-keep-the-swagger-going-with-ithink2012-campaign/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/ncbcp-black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-gets-%e2%80%9cin-the-spirit%e2%80%9d-at-%e2%80%9cpower-of-the-sister-vote%e2%80%9d-policy-forum/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/ncbcp-black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-gets-%e2%80%9cin-the-spirit%e2%80%9d-at-%e2%80%9cpower-of-the-sister-vote%e2%80%9d-policy-forum/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:23:56 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3584 Washington, DC – A group of black women called on the spirits of the ancestors to empower them to fight against current efforts to suppress the Black vote during the fourth annual Power of the Sister Vote Intergenerational Policy Forum Series hosted by the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/10/ncbcp-black-women%e2%80%99s-roundtable-gets-%e2%80%9cin-the-spirit%e2%80%9d-at-%e2%80%9cpower-of-the-sister-vote%e2%80%9d-policy-forum/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/09/voter-id-laws-provoking-black-women-who-had-highest-turnout-in-2008-to-turn-out-voters/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/09/voter-id-laws-provoking-black-women-who-had-highest-turnout-in-2008-to-turn-out-voters/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:28:14 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3561 Suzanne Gamboa, AP (The Washington Post) — Deidra Reese isn’t waiting for people to come to her to find out whether they are registered to vote.  With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes and churches in nine Ohio cities, looking up registrations to make sure voters have proper ID and [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/09/voter-id-laws-provoking-black-women-who-had-highest-turnout-in-2008-to-turn-out-voters/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/have-blacks-lost-their-spirit-for-social-activism/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/have-blacks-lost-their-spirit-for-social-activism/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:15:22 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3535 by Jessica Williams-Gibson – Some are concerned that the kind of activism advocated by leaders such as Rev. Derek King (left) and Rev. Al Sharpton is not as strong in the Black community today as in the past. During the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s, African-Americans mobilized and marched for issues such [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/have-blacks-lost-their-spirit-for-social-activism/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/black-president-but-no-black-agenda-by-hazel-trice-edney/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/black-president-but-no-black-agenda-by-hazel-trice-edney/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:47:41 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3507 Grassroots activists struggling to motivate African-Americans to vote this time around (Trice Edney News Wire) -With Black unemployment rates still stuck in double digits while Whites remain consistently below the national average, economic frustration and suffering in the Black community is making it difficult for grassroots organizers to motivate people to the polls Nov. 6. [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/08/black-president-but-no-black-agenda-by-hazel-trice-edney/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/07/ohio-unity-coalition-kicks-off-voter-empowerment-tour-with-hi-tech-mobile-voter-registration-unit-traveling-the-state-ncbcp-andersonatlarge/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/07/ohio-unity-coalition-kicks-off-voter-empowerment-tour-with-hi-tech-mobile-voter-registration-unit-traveling-the-state-ncbcp-andersonatlarge/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:06:00 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=3475 Multi-city “Stand Your Ground” tour aims to prepare voters in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus,Youngstown, Akron, Cleveland, Lorain and Toledo Ohio A coalition of faith, labor, civil and voter rights groups along with community activists launched the Stand Your Ground… Vote, 2012 Ohio Voter Empowerment Tour in Cincinnati this past weekend dispatching a mobile voter registration unit [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2012/07/ohio-unity-coalition-kicks-off-voter-empowerment-tour-with-hi-tech-mobile-voter-registration-unit-traveling-the-state-ncbcp-andersonatlarge/feed/ 0