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Marc Morial

The State of Black America: Washington Are you Listening?

April 6, 2011 villagechief 0

By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #14) – “Welcome to America in the second decade of the 21st century. An army of long-term unemployed workers is spread across the land, the human fallout from the Great Recession and long years of misguided economic policies.” From Bob Herbert’s final column for the New York Times […]

News

Malcolm X Scholar Dies on Eve of Revelations

April 2, 2011 villagechief 0

By Richard Prince – Noted African American historian Manning Marable died in New York on Friday, three days before his long-awaited book containing revelations about Malcolm X is to be published, his publicist confirmed. He was 60. A prolific writer, Marable directed the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and for […]

News

Why Is Black Unemployment Rising?

April 2, 2011 villagechief 0

By Joyce Jones (BET.com) – The news that the African-American unemployment rate rose to 15.5% from 15.3% while the overall rate dropped to its lowest level in two years is disheartening. It would be easy to blame the yawning gap between the overall jobless rate of 8.8% and the Black unemployment rate on race, but […]

News

Save a Girl, Save a World National Mentoring Program Launched to Save Lives

April 1, 2011 villagechief 0

Detroit, MI – The SAVE A GIRL, SAVE A WORLD (SAGSAW) mentoring inter-generational program will debut with an official three-day retreat hosted by, president of Bennett College Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Friday, April 8 through Sunday, April 10. Forty (40) young ladies from high schools and college will attend the SAVE A GIRL, SAVE THE WORLD […]

Headlines

Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison

April 1, 2011 villagechief 0

By Jordan Flaherty – Civil rights activist Catrina Wallace, who received national acclaim for her central role in organizing protests around the Jena Six case, was convicted today of three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. She was taken from the courtroom straight to jail after the verdict was read, and given a one […]

Environment

Radiation Traces Found in U.S. Milk

March 31, 2011 villagechief 0

By Stephen Power, WSJ – The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been found in milk in Washington state, but said the amounts are far too low to trigger any public-health concern. The Environmental Protection Agency said a March 25 sample of milk produced in the Spokane, Wash., area contained a 0.8 […]

Entertainment

Chris Brown Continues No. 1 Reign At Urban Mainstream

March 31, 2011 villagechief 0

New York, NY – Chris Brown’s fourth studio album F.A.M.E. (Jive Records) debuts this week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts with total album sales of over 271K. The album has spawned three consecutive No. 1 singles and marks the multi-platinum singer’s first No. 1 album on the […]

Headlines

African Diaspora for Change partners with The Salif Keita Foundation for a Special Benefit Concert in DC

March 30, 2011 villagechief 0

African Diaspora for Change partners with The Salif Keita Global Foundation for a special benefit concert to stop A.L.B.I.N.O.S. (A Living Being in Need of Safety) Genocide. The concert will be held in Washington, DC, on April 10, at 8 PM at Bohemian Caverns. Salif Keita was born with albinism. As a child he suffered […]

Commentary

60 Minutes’ Byron Pitts and the N-word: The need for top-down reprogramming

March 30, 2011 villagechief 0

By H. Lewis Smith – Visualize a circle about the size of a grapefruit, and imagine that the space inside this circle represents an individual’s total, inclusive realm of knowledge. At the same time, this same individual is also mindful that there is more knowledge outside of their particular circumference of awareness. However, when somebody […]