"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
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By Cathy Cohen and Jon C. Rogowski
~ In a democracy, few rights are as cherished as the right to vote. Yet, in the United States people of color, mainly Latinos, African Americans, Asians and Native Americans, are finding that the more they demonstrate their civic responsibility by voting, the more obstacles that surface designed to weaken the power of their votes.
Since 2008, when the nation elected its first African American president, there have been numerous efforts in various states
NY Rep. Yvette Clarke speaks to Black Women's Roundtable
during a briefing on Capitol Hill PHOTO CREDIT: Paulette Singleton |
Over 300 Black women from ten states traveled to the US Capitol last week to urge representatives to pass policies and programs that empower Black and underserved families, especially single mothers and the working-poor. Issues the women addressed as they visited the offices of their congressional leaders included: public education, gun violence and the creation of jobs
4 Points in Response to Slander in the Media and Other Places About the March 24th Protest for Justice for Kimani Gray
by Carl Dix, March 27, 2013
#1 - It was important and righteous that a diverse group of people responded to the Stop Mass Incarceration Network's Call to come out on 3/24 for Justice For Kimani Gray. We were uniting to take on a real genocide and standing with those who have been arrested and criminalized for standing up against the police murder of Kimani. There are no “outsid
White Media Masquerading as Black
March 25, 2013
By Raynard Jackson
NNPA Columnist
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, released his long awaited report last week called the Growth and Opportunity Project. It is basically a post mortem of last November’s election results and lessons learned.
The report stated the obvious: The Republican Party had problems with key demographic groups such as Blacks and Hispanics. To address this issue, Priebus has committed to hiring Black a
BOBBY SEALE, FOUNDING CHAIRMAN & NATIONAL ORGANIZER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, TO PRODUCE A FILM PORTRAYING HIS LIFE •
Bobby Seale, chairman, co-founder and national organizer of the Black Panther Party •
• Bobby Seale, Chairman, co-founder and national organizer of the Black Panther Party is producing a biographical motion picture which will dramatize his life and the tumultuous 1960's and 70's, the era in which the Black Panthers emerged as the prominent revolutionary civil rights movement
NEW MOBILE SOCIAL VIDEO NETWORK FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AUDIENCE
-- 5iveSpot Delivers Social Video Messaging and Urban Entertainment Network for the mobile smartphone community --
The free 5iveSpot App is now available for download through the App Store and Google Play.
• Introducing 5iveSpot, a mobile social network where users create and share personal video messages (vms) and view short form video entertainment on mobile devices. 5iveSpot's mobile network is dedicated to providing a social
Response to the Village Voice:
People Rose Up in Righteous Protest Against Murder of Kimani Gray—And They Should Be Supported
March 22, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
The righteous uprising of the youth of East Flatbush and others from across the city of NY who were outraged by the murder of Kimani Gray has been met with riot-clad, baton-wielding cops and mass arrests. Accompanying these assaults has been a chorus of NYC elected officials, "community leaders" and others in NY and across th
"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
The Freedom Archives is excited to announce our new search engine at search.freedomarchives.org
You can now digitally access audio, video and full-text written materials and browse through our many collections that date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle progressive history and culture of liberation struggles and movements. Along with the expanded ability to search the archives, we are excited to highlight 300 digitized documents from the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, a great
PRODUCING A WORKFORCE IN TODAY'S GLOBAL ECONOMY: CAN AMERICA'S POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION MEET THE NEEDS OF TODAY GLOBAL CHALLENGES?
-- Harvard's Dr. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Moderates Symposium Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Created by BLACK ENTERPRISE Answers the Question! --
Dr. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr
What: Black Enterprise, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, presents "Today's Business Crisis: Educating Tomorrow's Workforce." The Symposium is part of an
Obama Is Not One of Us
“According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only eighty-seven members from the United States (the other 337 members are from other countries). Thus, within two weeks of his inauguration, Obama’s appointments encompassed more than 12 percent of Commission’s entire US membership. Trilateral appointees include: Secretary of Treasury, Tim Geithner Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice National Security Advisor, Gen. James L. Jones, Deputy Nat
“S.K.P… We make this music for you to use it and lose touch with the daily routine. Reality is too much, too much. Escape, Escape, Escape, Escape!”
First of all I love the usage of the jazz horn in the background. It gives a soul-ful and Bluesy backdrop with these fellas ambitious, ready-for-the-world delivery. They speak as though they’ve done this many times before and with clear distinction. In the beginning a guy is sitting at the bus stop, minding his own business when four guys come up, ful
There’s something about the rise and fall in mellow, medium tone songs that work me inside. Maybe there’s more to me than I realize from my usual description of “Optimistic”. Variety is always and will always be my favorite.
I’m digging the guitar strumming in this song with the thump of the drum at certain intervals and how it has me wondering what’s “wrong?” He sounds wayward and forlorn in his presentation. I’m anticipating in the beginning what the “new way home” could mean as he’s driving ar
This past week SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas ended its duration of its 10 days of claim to fame festivals and conferences in Film, Interactive, and Music. SXSW Music offers artist-provided music and video samples of featured artists at each festival via their official You Tube channel. SXSW Film focuses on new directing talent. SXSW Interactive focuses on emerging technology, a focus which has earned the festival a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. I’ve neve
To all men: It is a teachable moment for you and for you to teach your sons and their sons. Steubenville. Todd Akin. Unspoken GOP ideology on rape -- aka "legitimate rape." Apparently men -- and some women on CNN -- don't seem to know what rape is. Dictionary definition of rape is compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. 2. any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. 3.statutory rape --which is forced, coerce, groomed, or any other form
The hands of the 'tambu' wants to pick first,, hit, and spins high, up then fro keep the tone -drumming auditorius living and jump authority in wireless messages- sounds of society humble grand part majority on sounds of various in screams for attention to what's going on across kingdom reliable low lands Antilles protesting their miserable living at large for change suffocation hunting their masterpieces going fillgraine human beings their senses not silenced, now their rights focus on crumbs n
TGIF is Back! Friday Nights have never been better. If you haven't caught the hype that has been sizzling all week on NBC Late Night With Jimmy Fallon then let's catch you up on the action... As you know Justin Timberlake's anticipated LP The 20/20 Experience will be released March 19. If you click here to go to iTunes now you can actually stream the entire album. Fallon and his crew got a handle on this early and prepared for JT's guest appearance on the nightly broadcast for a full week! Not s
The open dialog continued further with Bullying, Stalking, and Cyber Stalking. This spoke to me on a very personal and burdening level and couldn't miss this opportunity to share my experience live on-air for anyone else out here who has been through similar. It is not a secret, especially to those who know me personally that I've been a major music fan of Miguel since I learned about him back in Spring of 2011. I had just departed my job for changes that were occurring in my life that prevented
Yesterday, March 16 at 11 am on Atlanta's Inspirational radio station Love860 with Fastlane Dee the topic of the show was 'Domestic Violence'. It's a subject we can never discuss too much about because it is an issue that has grown to be an epidemic among the youth of today. The senseless murder of Atlanta resident Christopher 'Skywalker' Walker this past Monday was befitting of this very topic which circled local news. Chris, at age 19, was found shot in the back of the head in his drive way in
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