Kanye West and Common Join Urban League to Create 20,000 Youth Jobs
Writing for Colorlines.com, Jamilah King is reporting that iconic rappers Kanye West and Common are teaming up with the Chicago Urban League to create...
The Rebirth of the Radical Right: The Real Threat to National Security
If the former Klu Klux Klan leader (who targeted and killed three at a Jewish School in Kansas) was named Assad, we would very...
TBW Founder Nsenga K. Burton to Give Talk on Race & the Blogosphere at...
The Burton Wire's founder & editor-in-chief Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. will be discussing the topic, "Race and the Blogosphere " at Clark Atlanta University...
Jamaica: Journalists Covering Vybz Kartel Trial Receive Death Threats
The Jamaica Observer newspaper is reporting that two journalists who covered the recent trial of Dancehall and Reggae artist Vybz Kartel have received death...
Is the U.S. Supreme Court Destroying ‘Representative Democracy’?
Last week, the five conservative judges on the U.S. Supreme Court deemed that monetary caps on how much an individual could contribute to a...
Chuck Stone: Veteran Journalist and NABJ Founder Dies
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) is reporting that veteran journalist and National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) founder Chuck Stone has died. According to Stone's daughter...
Jackie Joyner Kersee and Tamera Young Talk Sexism in Sports
Title IX prohibits gender discrimination in athletic programs that receive federal funding. Enacted in 1972, the law grants women and girls equal access to...
’12 Years a Slave’: Northrup’s Descendants to Co-Host Google Hangout
Tina Daunt of the Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the descendants of Solomon Northrup, a free African American, who was kidnapped and taken South...
Feds Probe Email Confession in Kendrick Johnson Case
Victor Blackwell of CNN is reporting that a Lowndes County, Georgia, assistant district attorney has ordered a communications company to hand over Internet records...
Cuban Americans Hold Meetings to Discuss Improving Cuban Relations
David Adams of Reuters is reporting that Cuban Americans met in Miami on Saturday to discuss how to normalize relations with Cuba and end...
