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Chuck Hobbs

Monday Musings on Racial Gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act/John Edwards’ Indictment in Federal Court

June 6, 2011 villagechief 0

By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – RACIAL REDISTRICTING – Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker took the unusual step of breaking with her typically progressive orthodoxy in a recent editorial that calls for the end of racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Tucker’s opinion—which I fully share—is that majority-minority districts, originally drawn to […]

Commentary

It’s About Time

June 5, 2011 villagechief 0

By Raynard Jackson – I have worked around 3 Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Bush) and I can tell you for certain that one sure-fire way of learning a president’s priorities, is by who he agrees to spend time with (as in meetings). A president’s time is scheduled to the nth degree. So, if the […]

Commentary

The “N-word”: What’s in a name, Black America?

June 5, 2011 villagechief 0

By H. Lewis Smith – Whenever the “massa” gave the enslaved black man something, no matter what it was, he took it—whether voluntarily or by coercion. Sadly, no matter how demeaning or dreadful the thing may have been, he had no choice but to accept the token, allowing it to become a part of his […]

Headlines

Jay King Honors Radio Pioneer Lee Bailey On “The Way I See It” on the Jay King Radio Network

June 5, 2011 villagechief 0

Hollywood, CA – Before TMZ, bloggers and syndicated radio, urbanites would sit anxiously by their radio at a designated time to hear who was doing what, how and to who via a show called Radioscope. The year was 1983 and Radioscope scooped the news and entertainment gossip as the first syndicated urban entertainment magazine on […]

Commentary

BEEP Prepares African American College Students for Jobs in Corporate America

June 4, 2011 villagechief 0

By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #24) – Last week, June 8-11, more than 450 attendees, including 132 HBCU students, came together in Orlando, Florida for the National Urban League’s 42nd annual Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Leadership Conference. BEEP, the National Urban League’s longest running direct service program, is a partnership involving the […]

Blogs

U.S. Supreme Court orders massive inmate release to relieve California’s crowded prisons

June 3, 2011 villagechief 0

By David G. Savage and Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California must remove tens of thousands of inmates from its prison rolls in the next two years, and state officials vowed to comply, saying they hoped to do so without setting any criminals free. Administration officials expressed confidence […]

News

Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, dies in Tanzania

June 3, 2011 villagechief 0

Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit and whose case became a symbol of racial injustice during the turbulent 1960s, has died. He was 63. Pratt died at his home in a small village in […]

News

Loyola University student Ruth “Rudi” Carter missing

June 2, 2011 villagechief 0

Family and friends are searching for Ruth “Rudi” Carter who has not been seen since leaving Loyola University dormitory. According to friends and family it is not like Rudi to pack up and leave without telling anyone. Loyola University is located in New Orleans Louisiana. Rudi Carter is 21 years old, 5’2″ tall and was […]

News

National Urban League: Withdraw Proposed Mortgage Qualification Rule

June 2, 2011 villagechief 0

New York – Proposed changes to mortgage qualification standards are bad policy and should be rejected, National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial said today in a letter to the six agencies charged with developing new regulations. “A Rule that stifles homeownership for communities of color will also negatively suppress the entire housing […]