Winston-Salem, N.C.- Since the 1970s Americans have benefited from legislative action to clean up air and water supplies, remedy toxic spills and increase food safety. In many communities, grassroots efforts provide a backstop where legal compliance is absent. But in both rural and urban areas across the U.S., racial minorities and the economically disenfranchised suffer […]
Senate Passes Black Farmer Lawsuit Legislation
Atlanta -Two years after the provision in the 2008 Farm Bill that provided the opportunity for late petitioners in the Black farmer lawsuit to file their claims against the United States Department of Agriculture, the Senate has finally passed an appropriations bill that will fund the lawsuit. It was a vote of unanimous consent. While […]
Education Special Hosted By Rev. Sharpton to Air Sunday Nov. 21st
The Education SuperHighway, a nationally syndicated Sunday morning news and information magazine show premiering November 21st in 75 markets Reverend Sharpton with Special Guest New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg New York, NY — The nation’s parents and teachers have a new television show to call their very own. The Education SuperHighway, […]
Carville’s Silly Antics Have A Name: Racism-Sexism-Disloyalty-Stupidity
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. – Let’s call it what it is. Carville’s silly antics have a name. Racism, Sexism, Disloyalty and Stupidity! While many are busy looking at the outrageous things the Republicans say and do, one of our own is far more disrespectful of President Barack Obama. James Carville thinks that Secretary […]
Smokey Robinson Builds his Legacy – By Linsey Davis
Jim Clyburn-ed
By Raynard Jackson – In the immortal words of civil rights legend, Fannie Lou Hamer, when will Blacks become “sick and tired of being sick and tired?” Once again the Democratic Party has shown its disdain for the Black community and Black Democrats, as usual, just sit back and continue to allow it to happen. […]
After a Successful Launch Lowery Boulevard Clean-Up Project Continues Through Holidays
Atlanta, GA – After successfully launching the CLEAN, GREEN & HONOR PROJECT (CGH) with over five hundred volunteers on hand to clean-up Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in honor of civil rights icon, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s 89th birthday, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda (Peoples’ Agenda) executive director, Helen Butler, announced plans to continue […]
Digital Divide Fails to Decrease
The Department of Commerce released a study on broadband adoption rates in the U.S. based on age, gender, ethnicity, education and income level. The study found that broadband adoption rates increased significantly between 2007 and 2009, yet the digital divide did not diminish. Hispanic and African-Americans continue to adopt at much lower rates than Whites […]
Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’
By Kevin Powell – Push pause before watching for colored girls…. People either love or hate filmmaker Tyler Perry-that much is clear to me. Weeks before I decided to see Perry’s “For Colored Girls” on opening night I could hear the extreme reactions to the fact he was adapting, producing, and directing a film version […]