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Bill To Stop The Use of Credit History in Hiring Decisions Moves Forward With Additions

January 19, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

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Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant Celebrates Black History Month with 19 Years Announcing Nationwide Registration

January 17, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

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Occupy Movement Looks Like Civil Rights Movement – by Dwayne West

January 13, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

Commentary

Political Geography May Impact Presidential Race – by Kirk Clay

January 13, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

Entertainment

Film & TV Star Vivica A. Fox to Speak to Women & Girls for Black Women’s Roundtable Healthy Wealthy & Wise Tour

January 12, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

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Prisonworld Magazine Publishers Jenny and Rufus Triplett Named Ebony Magazine’s “Couple of the Year”

January 12, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

Commentary

The Role of Black Intellectuals – Too Much Talk, Not Enough Action? by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

January 12, 2012 villagechief 0

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 […]

Commentary

Capital Offense – by Raynard Jackson

January 12, 2012 villagechief 0

I am stunned by all the controversy surrounding presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital (the private investment company that he founded). What’s even more amazing is that the controversy was started by Republicans running against him for the presidential nomination. These Republican candidates have accused Romney of buying several businesses and then laying […]

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The Optics of Iowa – by Raynard Jackson

January 8, 2012 villagechief 0

Tuesday night the political world was all focused on the Iowa Caucuses. Everyone was watching to see if Santorum would defeat Romney. When all the votes were counted, Romney had won by a mere 8 votes. Romney was finally declared the winner around 2:30 am (east coast time). I stayed up to listen to all […]