What If The Tea Party Was Black? – Jasiri X
Racism at CBS Television, Sony Entertainment and Bell Dramatic for 37 years
By Brandon Brooks and Sam Richard, Los Angeles Sentinel/NNPA – Pioneering actress Victoria Rowell is not new to the acting world and she certainly is not new to the millions of fans of the daytime drama “The Young and The Restless”. The veteran actress was part of the cast as Drucilla Winters for more than […]
Houston Man Cleared by DNA After 30 Years in Prison
By Allan Turner, Houston Chronicle – The reliability of eyewitness identification in criminal cases took another sock in the eye Tuesday as Cornelius Dupree Jr., a Houston man sentenced to 75 years in prison for a rape-robbery he did not commit, walked out of a Dallas courtroom a free man. Dupree, 51, served 30 years […]
An Urgent Movement for Justice
Benjamin Todd Jealous, Huffington Post – During the past two weeks, in response to successful grassroots campaigns, two governors have released black Americans who had been railroaded by our nation’s criminal justice system. Together, these cases speak to the urgent need for the work the NAACP and our allies are doing to encourage more Governors […]
Ex-Madoff Worker Refuses to Snitch – No-Snitch Rule Applies to the Rich
I wonder curious reporters don’t make a big deal when white collar criminals refuse to snitch on fellow criminal associates. The media act as if only African American youth excercise their right to remain silent. A former employee of one of the biggest criminals of the last decade, Ponzi scheme running Bernard L. Madoff, refuses […]
Homeless man with amazing radio voice in Columbus, OH
Bizarre death of fish and birds in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Brazil
By Jaime Uribarri and Michael Sheridan, NY Daily News – It isn’t 2012, but a rash of animal deaths is making this year look like the End of Days. Following on the heels of thousands of red-winged blackbirds dying in a small Arkansas town, several hundred more mysteriously died farther south in Louisiana. Officials are […]
Which Constitution?
By Julianne Malveaux – The incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner (R-OH) seems to pride himself in his fealty to the United States Constitution, so much so that he plans to have the constitution read from the floor of Congress before he takes office. I am sure that Mr. Boehner thinks he […]