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1907
The Pittsburgh Courier was founded by Edwin Nathaniel Harlston, a security guard with an avid interest in literature. By the 1930s, The Courier was one of the most circulated and most influential publications of the day for African Americans along with The Chicago Defender and The Afro-American, published in Baltimore.
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Innocence Project calls for review of cases involving juvenile confessions in Cook County By Frederick H. Lowe Four black men have been exonerated for the 1994 rape and murder of a Chicago woman after the Cook County, Ill., State's Attorney announced on Tuesday that it was dismissing the indictments against all the men because of a lack of evidence. Michael Saunders, Harold Richardson, Vincent Thames and Terrill Swift, who were known as the Englewood Four, spent much of their adult lives and most of their teenage years in prison for the murder of Nina Glover, a sex worker, a crime DNA evidence proved the four men did not commit. The DNA evidence, however, pointed to Johnny Douglas, a career criminal, who is now deceased. Englewood is a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. In November, Judge Paul P. Biedel, presiding criminal court judge, overturned the Englewood four's convictions and ordered new trials for the men.
by Frederick H. Lowe Labor-market segregation consigns black men to low–wage jobs despite their educational achievements and their abilities to interact successfully with customers, according to an Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper. “Black men are overrepresented in low-wage jobs and underrepresented in high-wage jobs,” write authors Darrick Hamilton, Algernon Austin and William Darity Jr., in the paper, “Whiter Jobs and Higher Wages: Occupational Segregation and the Lower Wages of Black Men."
Wisconsin Judge to Hear Challenge to Voter ID Law A circuit court judge this morning will hear the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin challenge to the state's photo ID law, which, if enforced, would prevent large numbers of black voters from casting ballots in the 2012 presidential election. The judge in Madison will hear arguments beginning at 9:30 am from
The Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP) will host screenings of “Red Tails” when the movie opens on Friday nationwide. Westchester, Ill.-based OBAP will host students in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Louisville, Ky., Apple Valley, Calif., and Memphis, Tenn., for ““Red Tails,” a film by director George Lucas about the Tuskegee Airmen, an elite group of African-American pilots trained in the 1940s. “Red Tails” refers to the color of their planes' vertical stabilizer or vertical tail. The airmen were pioneers in equality and integration of the Armed Forces.
By Frederick H. Lowe The Baltimore City Public Schools, a majority African-American school system where the dropout rate is declining and the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Honors Morgan Freeman Actors Morgan Freeman, Idris Elba and Octavia Spencer are golden.
Soul and funk saxophonist, Jimmy Castor, 71, head of the Jimmy Castor Bunch, died of apparent heart failure in Las Vegas on Monday, according to family members who spoke to the press.
January 19 through January 25 January 19 1907 ----- The Pittsburgh Courier was founded by Edwin Nathaniel Harlston, a security guard with an avid interest in literature. By the 1930s, The Courier was one of the most circulated and most influential publications of the day for African Americans along with The Chicago Defender and The Afro-American, published in Baltimore. The Courier was a strong voice for the African-American community, calling attention to the challenges and injustices facing black Americans. From its earliest days, The Courier advocated for improvements in education, health care and housing. The paper was also instrumental in