By Nirvi Shah (Edweek.org) – The NAACP has joined forces with fiscally conservative groups, former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, and others to persuade legislators and policymakers to shift the growing amount of money spent on prisons to education. In a new report called “Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate,” the NAACP compiled research […]
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Donna Brazile tapped as interim DNC chair
By Jennifer Epstein – Donna Brazile, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and Al Gore, will fill in as interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee until Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida can be officially elected to the post. Brazile, the committee’s vice chairwoman, will take the reins for the next two weeks, […]
MLK III and Andrew Young Co-found TV Network Targeting African-American Audiences
Atlanta (April 4, 2011) — The nation’s first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network designed exclusively for African-American audiences will launch this fall, it was announced today. The new network will be called Bounce TV (http://bouncetv.com) and will target African Americans primarily between the ages of 25-54 with a programming mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sporting […]
Malcolm X Scholar Dies on Eve of Revelations
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 […]
Why Is Black Unemployment Rising?
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 […]
Save a Girl, Save a World National Mentoring Program Launched to Save Lives
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 […]
African Diaspora for Change partners with The Salif Keita Foundation for a Special Benefit Concert in DC
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 […]
Atlanta City Council to Honor Eleven Women featured in New Civil Rights History Book
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Atlanta City Councilman Michael Julian Bond will pay tribute to eleven women born in or currently living in Georgia, who contributed to the newly-published Civil Rights history book “Hands on the Freedom Plow.” As members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Civil Rights era, the […]
Shirley Sherrod, Jasmine Guy and Fonzworth Bentley Among 2011 Drum Major for Justice Honorees
Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Civil Rights – Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, Ambassador Andrew Young, and Rep. John Lewis – will be honored Evelyn Gibson Lowery, founder and chair of SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now, Inc. announced today that former Georgia State Director of USDA Rural Development, Shirley Sherrod; award-winning actor, […]