Atlanta, GA – After successfully launching the CLEAN, GREEN & HONOR PROJECT (CGH) with over five hundred volunteers on hand to clean-up Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard in honor of civil rights icon, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s 89th birthday, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda (Peoples’ Agenda) executive director, Helen Butler, announced plans to continue […]
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UNCF Institute for Capacity Building Awards 23 Green Planning Grants to Minority- Serving Institutions
UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, today announced that its Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) has awarded 23 green planning grants totaling $240,000 to assist with institutional sustainability planning for minority serving institutions (MSIs). Additionally, this grant will encourage MSIs to participate in the American College […]
Vandarray Gets Crunk For Christ
Releases Gospel CD & Launches Gulf Coast Tour Atlanta, GA – Just returning from a stellar performance for Bobby Jones Gospel, JacksO Records (www.jacksorecords.com) recording artist, Vandarray (Vandarray Jackson-Derico), put on an electrifying mini-concert for enthusiastic friends, fans, and entertainment executives gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta to celebrate the release of her much […]
Don’t Believe the Hype! Black Folks Voted on November 2, 2010
By Melanie L. Campbell – I would like to take this opportunity to thank all voters for taking the time to exercise their right to vote in the November 2nd mid-term Election. On Election Day, the NCBCP managed the Black Women’s Roundtable Power the Sister Vote National Command Center, in partnership with the A. Philip […]
Sheryl Lee Ralph, E. Faye Williams, & Evelyn Gibson Lowery Challenged Women to Get Out the Vote at Multicultural Forum
Atlanta, GA – A diverse group of women representing all walks of life, faiths, and ethnicities assembled recently at the Atlanta Civic Center for the “Women in Power Multicultural Forum,” a spirited get-out-the-vote rally featuring a mixture of local, state, and national speakers that discussed women as “Game Changers” and urged the audience to visit, […]
Meek says Charlie Crist tried to get him to drop out of Senate race
CNN reports that Florida Senate hopeful, Kendrick Meek said that it was Florida Gov. Charlie Crist not former President Clinton that tried to talk him into dropping out of the Senate race. I am terribly confused. Crist is a former Republican running as an Independent; what does he have to do with Meek? Kendrick Meek […]
Shirley Sherrod helps the NAACP get-out-the-vote
Best-Selling Author Sabrina Lamb Detangles the Jawn Murray Hair Controversy
New York – When best-selling author, media personality and satirist Sabrina Lamb speaks, it is usually loud and clear. A savvy business woman, journalist and former stand up comic, Lamb was acknowledged as number 16 on the list of “50 Top Black Women in Entertainment” in Black Noir magazine. Her latest book, “A Kettle of […]
Atlanta neighborhood celebrates Lowery’s birthday
ATLANTA (AP) Oct. 9 – Friends and volunteers are gathering in Atlanta for a neighborhood clean up to help celebrate the Rev. Joseph Lowery’s birthday. The civil rights icon turned 89 on Wednesday. To honor him, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda is bringing people together Saturday to clean Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. Birthday […]