Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced Jean-Claude Kavumbagu, a Burundian internet journalist, will receive the organization’s 2011 Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist Award. The honor will be presented at the association’s 36th Annual Convention and Career Fair in Philadelphia, PA, the nation’s largest annual gathering of minority journalists. Kavumbagu, editor of […]
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Rutgers’ #1 Show, “All Politics Are Local”, Uses Hip Hop Culture To Bring Democracy and Politics To The Youth
Newark, NJ – Politics Are Local is Rutgers University’s #1 new internet college radio show. The lively, but intellectually critical round table show discusses various Hip Hop, entertainment, and political issues every Friday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm broadcasted live from the school’s Paul Robeson student center in downtown Newark, New Jersey. This past May, All […]
Washington Preparatory High School Brings Shakespeare To the Hood with Summer Theater Program
Los Angeles – When Melanie Andrews, the director of arts for Washington Preparatory High School, talks about the performing skills of her students, her commitment and passion is evident. With summer approaching and the waning state of the economy, she notes that many of her students will have nowhere to go. As a native of […]
NAACP Applauds National Labor Relations Board Ruling
Washington, DC – The NAACP applauds the National Labor Relations Board for issuing a new rule to protect the rights of workers to vote and eliminate obstacles for employees wishing to form a union in their workplace. “The NAACP is extremely pleased with today’s NLRB rule,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “In […]
Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant Turns 18 This Year, Announces Nationwide Registration
Los Angeles – The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant has a history of dedication to continuing a legacy of nurturing young girls into proud and intelligent young women. The longest running pageant for little African American misses, the scholarship event turns 18 this year as it announces a nationwide registration drive. The original creation […]
Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant Turns 18 This Year – Nationwide Registration
Los Angeles – The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant has a history of dedication to continuing a legacy of nurturing young girls into proud and intelligent young women. The longest running pageant for little African American misses, the scholarship event turns 18 this year as it announces a nationwide registration drive. The original creation […]
Jay King Honors Radio Pioneer Lee Bailey On “The Way I See It” on the Jay King Radio Network
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 […]
Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, dies in Tanzania
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 […]
Loyola University student Ruth “Rudi” Carter missing
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 […]