Retired Players Win Major Court Battle with the NFL
Most retired NFL players have numerous stories of former teammates who are facing dire circumstances more daunting than anything they experienced on the playing field. The Settlement of the ongoing publicity rights class action Dryer, et al. v. National Football League, which alleged that the NFL improperly used retired NFL players’ identities in NFL Films, [...]
Heckler Explains Why She Went After First Lady Michelle Obama
Remember the heckler who went after Michelle Obama in public? She isn’t done. Ellen Sturtz made international headlines when she spoke up against the first lady at a fundraiser. But she was also taken aback when the first lady came right back at her. Sturtz is a fighter for the rights of the LGBT community [...]
President Obama Appoints an African American Judge to the Second-Highest Court in the US
President Obama Appoints African American Judge to the Second Highest Court in the United States: Today, President Obama announced his nomination of three candidates for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The President’s nominations included Judge Robert Leon Wilkins, a distinguished African American Judge currently serving as a U.S. district [...]
Julianne Malveaux Explains How Whites Have Recovered from the Recession, but Blacks Have Not
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent, there are some who insist that there is a robust economic recovery in progress. Indeed, we were declared “post recession” in 2011 based on the definition of recovery as GDP growth [...]
Woman Gives Tearful Account of Her Boyfriend’s Beating and How the NYPD Failed to Investigate
In a youtube video, a woman tells a harrowing tale of a beating that took place between a group of men, her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s twin brother. The woman, who doesn’t say her name in the video, says that her boyfriend was kicked several times in the head, and says that all of his [...]
Rev. Joseph Lowrey: The Anatomy of a Modern Day Drum Major
by Rev. Joseph Lowrey On April 9, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a message that was strikingly applicable to the lives of modern day civil rights leaders and leaders of America’s future. In the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta only five days before he was assassinated, Dr. King meticulously outlined [...]
Bill Spriggs, PhD: We Must Focus on Creating Jobs, Not Balancing the Budget
by Bill Spriggs The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its economic outlook for the modern, democratic, industrialized economies at its annual meeting of member nation ministers. It was mostly gloom. The European members of the OECD are mired in a deep economic slump. In 2012, the European members had a drop in [...]
Why Would a Superintendent Say that the Race of a Teacher Doesn’t Matter in an Inner City School?
By: Randy R. Miller, MPA High School Teacher and Author When it comes to my job as a teacher in an inner-city, there are very few things that bother me. However, the one thing that does is the reality that within my school district, I am the only African American teacher in any of our high [...]
Father Calls 911for Help with Son’s Depression and Police Kill Him
A deputy is accused of tasering a man without having to do so and then shooting him to deal after his family called 911 to get help for his depression. The family of George Ramirez say that they didn’t want the police in Stanislaus County to engage in lethal action and that it wasn’t [...]
Author Says: Blacks Should Not Give Pres. Obama a Free Pass
By Courtland Milloy, I hope President Obama appreciates the grand bargain he’s getting from African Americans: unwavering support, stratospheric approval rating, muted exasperation when he disappoints, vociferous defense when he’s under attack. But what do black people get in return? A recent spate of polls suggests that Obama himself is the payoff — that he [...]
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