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Minority Real Estate Leaders Say Government Efforts Are Failing to Meet Needs of Multicultural Homebuyers

Coalition Recommends Five-Point Plan & Diversity to Support Sustainability, Accountability & Responsibility Washington, DC – Saying millions of Americans are being left out of the American dream of homeownership, the nation’s three largest organizations representing multicultural real estate professionals, Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA), the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), […]

Music Man Jay King Approaches Two-Year Anniversary with “The Way I See It” on BlogTalkRadio.com

Hollywood, CA – Industry veteran, music producer and radio personality Jay King celebrates two years on the internet airwaves this April with his show “The Way I See It” on BlogTalkRadio.com/Jay-King (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jay-king). With a fan base that has grown exponentially over the years, King is forever pushing the envelope with subject matters that provoke, stimulate […]

For The State of Black America, The Issue Is Jobs

By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #11) – From March 29th through the 31st, the National Urban League brings its fight for urban jobs to Capitol Hill with its 2011 Legislative Policy Conference. This year’s summit will make the case for targeted action to tackle the persistent unemployment crisis in Black America. Dozens of […]

Florida Governor Rick Scott returns State to Jim Crow Era on Civil Rights Restoration for ex-felons

By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – There is an old cliché that “those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.” This week, Governor Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and CFO Jeff Atwater, who collectively comprise the state’s Executive Clemency Board, repeated history by reversing a 2007 Order from […]

NFL Labor Dispute is a plot against fans

By Lucius Gantt – I’m tired of listening to my friends debate about the National Football League’s labor dispute. Whenever million dollar professional athletes bicker with billion dollar team owners the outcome is always the same, only the fans lose! I can walk pretty well. Work on the treadmill has been very, very good to […]

Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry’s Father-Daughter Ball Highlights Bond Between Fathers and Daughters

Dallas, TX — Dancing, dinner and fond memories between fathers and their daughters will mark the debut of the annual Jason Terry Foundation Father-Daughter Ball, “A Royal Affair.” The Dallas community is invited to share an evening to highlight and celebrate the importance of the father/daughter relationship while raising scholarship funds for deserving high school […]

Why So Many White Men Still Don’t Like President Obama

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – The latest Pew Research Center survey found a lot of things that should cheer President Obama. Voter anger against government even among those that identify as Tea Party backers is down, the Wisconsin union standoff hasn’t stirred any widespread anti-labor backlash, and there’s more tolerance than ever for same sex […]

Hip Hop Moves into the Sacred as Herban Shamen’s “Keys to the Inner Sanctum” Celebrates Digital Release

Hollywood, CA – When Courtney Branch seemingly exited the music business over ten years ago it was a move engineered to save his life. A multi-platinum, Grammy nominated record producer and one of the original behind-the-scenes pioneers of the West Coast hip hop music scene, his career accomplishments sparkled while his personal health was quickly […]