Time to Get Smart on Crime
By Benjamin Todd Jealous

 The United States has five percent of the world's people but twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners. For the sake of our families and future we must do better.

Our nation leads the world in the incarceration of our own citizens, both on a per capita basis and in terms of total prison population. The problem stems from the decades-old "tough on crime" policies from the Nixon/Reagan era. We are stuck in a failed "tough on crime" mind

By Dr. Gail C. Christopher
America's Wire Writers Group

 ~Just 100 miles from where Trayvon Martin was killed, the slaying of an unarmed black teenager that unleashed intense racial anger and antagonism, there is a new example of the racism and racial insensitivities that continue to punctuate our society.

With Martin's death still a bitter memory, a Port Canaveral Police Department firearms instructor did the unthinkable - Sgt. Ron King offered paper targets resembling Martin to fellow offi

On May 11, 2013, history will be written in the Ugandan town of Jinja, when the first African Ice Swimming Championship is arranged. Jinja residents received inspiration for this from the city of Skellefteå in Northern Sweden, where over the past two years the Swedish and Scandinavian Winter Swim champi-onships in have been arranged and hosted. "In order to succeed in implementing this spectacu-lar event, we will fill a swimming pool with about 50 tons of ice," says Jinja's Mayor, Mo-hamm

New sampling program targets Hispanic and African American Events.

Over the past several weeks, longstanding tensions on the Korean peninsula have intensified. U.S. diplomats, news media, and political leaders have portrayed the small, impoverished nation of North Korea (formally the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) as a belligerent bully, a threat to its neighbors, and a nuclear-armed threat to world peace.

 

Unemployment Numbers
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By Benjamin Todd Jealous

Coming the day after the 45^th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the new unemployment numbers show that unemployment is still high - and remains much higher for African Americans.

One thing hasn't changed in the last half century: if you're a person of color, you're more likely to be unemployed. Even though the black unemployment rate fell by .05% this month, it still sits at nearly 13.3%, nearly double the overall ra

My verses inspired from MR .Mansur nabeeli's poem:
He tells: "world is our home"
My chorus inspired from MR. Mansur Al-Hallaj's idea
He told: "I'm a God"
(People killed him while he was laughing)
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Intro:
We need globalization, not prison!

Verse1:
Demon's the first drawer of boundary & division
Demon's the creator of antagonism & deportation
Demands of freedom raise the flags of grimace
A Hand of human draw the line of separation

Ch

The Bay Area Celebrates the 80th Birthday of Dr. Nathan Hare in Oakland at Geoffery's Club, Saturday, April 13,3-5pm

You are cordially invited to attend a birthday celebration of 
our esteemed sociologist and clinical psychologist, the father of Black Studies in America, the Honorable Dr. Nathan Hare.


Geoffery's Club will host this event at 410 14th @ Franklin, downtown Oakland. 

The following friends and supporters of Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia are cordially invited to attend and/or support this

"The State of Equality and Justice in America" is a 20-part series of columns written by an all-star list of contributors to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The contributors include: U. S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) LCCRUL 50th Anniversary Grand Marshal; Ms. Barbara Arnwine, President and Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL); Mr. Charles Ogletree, Professor, Harvard University Law School/Director, Charles H

Eric Hamilton, chief marketing officer of Around the Way, and Ron Busby, president of the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.,  announcing the partnering on the new mobile app that finds local and national Black-owned businesses.

Yes! There's (Now) An App For That!

WASHINGTON, DC - Supporters of African-American businesses across the country can now access real-time information to locate providers of goods and services, no matter where they are in America.

Through a groundbreaking partnersh

From The Ramparts Junious Ricardo Stanton

I Hate To Say This, But I Told You So

“For years now I’ve been telling you how the Kleptocrats were plotting to bankrupt this country, steal all our wealth and reduce us to peons, serfs and slaves. The housing boom and bust crisis is one example, the economic collapse, spending our tax money on no win wars, the deliberate under funding of pensions and the planned cutbacks on social programs are how they are doing it. Stop and think about this for a minute,

03 APRIL 2013

BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA COLUMNIST

Several of my readers of have questioned why I am writing positive articles about my Republican Party.  The simple answer is that they deserve it. In the past, I have been very critical of my party because they have ignored the Black community, disrespected our current president with incendiary language, and strayed away from our core principles and values.

Since last November’s elections,  my party has seemed to have reflected on what happened durin

Our Movement of Resistance Needs a Lot of Room for Dialogue and Discussion But NO ROOM FOR ATTACKS AND THREATS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

The fight for Justice for Kimani Gray is part of the fight against a highly repressive state that enforces mass incarceration, the criminalization of a whole generation and discrimination against formerly incarcerated people. All this amounts to a slow genocide targeting Black and Latino people, which must be met with mass determined resistance.

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

One year later, the Trayvon Martin tragedy still stings - and some people are still throwing salt on the open wound. Last week George Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman, posted a tweet comparing Trayvon Martin to De'Marquis Elkins, 17-year-old black teenager charged with fatally shooting a one-year-old baby.

The tweet showed a photo of Elkins side by side with a photo of Martin, both making inappropriate gestures, with the caption "A picture speaks a thousand wor

NOTED BROADCASTER TAVIS SMILEY TO MODERATE "LATINO NATION" SYMPOSIUM IN CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APRIL 6

-- In Partnership with The William C. Velásquez Institute, PBS Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Univision America's Fernando Espuelas to Moderate a National Conversation with Latino Leaders about Critical Issues like the Economy, Healthcare, Education and Immigration. --

~ In the wake of the historic political muscle flexed by America's 50-million-strong Latino community in the 2012 elections, PBS bro