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Why Is Black Unemployment Rising?

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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 […]
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Save a Girl, Save a World National Mentoring Program Launched to Save Lives

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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 […]
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Headlines

Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison

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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 […]
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Radiation Traces Found in U.S. Milk

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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 […]
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Entertainment

Chris Brown Continues No. 1 Reign At Urban Mainstream

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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 […]
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Headlines

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

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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 […]
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Commentary

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

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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 […]
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Commentary

Demographic Shifts and Black Political Power

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Census data on city populations made headlines this week. Washington, DC can apparently only barely be described as “chocolate city” since the African American population is only a scant majority in the city. According to the Washington Post, even the block on which former mayor Marion Barry cut his teeth, married wife Effie, and ran […]
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Commentary

Kansas City’s Green Impact Zone Launches War on Unemployment

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By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#13) – In the great tradition of America’s global defense of democracy, our nation has now entered another foreign conflict to protect and improve the lives of innocent civilians. While we applaud the inclination to rescue people in peril around the world, we wonder why that same urgency does […]
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