By Brandon Brooks and Sam Richard, Los Angeles Sentinel/NNPA – Pioneering actress Victoria Rowell is not new to the acting world and she certainly is not new to the millions of fans of the daytime drama “The Young and The Restless”. The veteran actress was part of the cast as Drucilla Winters for more than […]
Black Farmers Finally Get Justice
By Marc H. Morial – As many as 80,000 Black farmers received an early New Year’s present from President Obama on December 8th, when he signed the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 into law. This legislation, which has been debated in Congress for more than a decade, funds a $1.5 billion lawsuit against the U.S. […]
Is America Marching in Two Different Directions?
To Be Equal by Marc Morial – This past Saturday in Washington, DC, two groups of Americans gathered on the National Mall to express their vision of freedom 47 years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Unfortunately, the two groups seemed to be marching in different directions. One rally, co-convened […]
National Urban League Calls on Talk Radio Network to Drop Dr. Laura
New York – The National Urban League today called on Talk Radio Network to drop the Dr. Laura show from syndication, and urged host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to educate herself about racism. “The problem is not simply that Dr. Schlessinger used the ‘n-word’ repeatedly, though that is offensive enough,” National Urban League President and CEO […]
Warren Ballentine Radio Show Listeners Deposit Over $600,000 in Bank
In less than two months Ballentine’s listeners have deposited more than half a million dollars into M&F Bank, an FDIC insured, 100 year-old bank located throughout the state of North Carolina. In April of this year, some of our nation’s most powerful African-American leaders and activists including, Rev. Al Sharpton President of The National Action […]