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By Frederick H. Lowe Thapelo Institute, a Chicago-based organization that educates African-American men about health issues, will host a panel discussion on Saturday about prostate cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among black men. The discussion, which will be held from 10 a.m.
General Motors has paid victims who charged that the automobile manufacturer produced parts for vehicles employed by South Africa's former apartheid government to raid homes and to track down and assassinate apartheid opponents.
Study: 59 percent of black boys and 43 percent of black girls are suspended or expelled by Frederick H. Lowe Trayvon Martin had been suspended from school for 10 days at the time he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman.
James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, has named Natasha Trethewey the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012 through 2013.
The United States will host this week the 11th annual U.S.
by Frederick H. Lowe Brian Banks, who was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit after serving five years in prison, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno before the largest television audience ever to see and hear from a wrongfully convicted man.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote in a June 7 e-mail message to supporters that he faces a difficult fight to remain in Congress because of re-districting “The Republicans have gerrymandered my Michigan district in an effort to target me and the principles I represent,” Conyers wrote.
by Frederick H. Lowe The United States Naval Academy recently honored the late Lieutenant Commander Wesley A. Brown, the academy's first African-American graduate.
U.S. Rep. John L. Lewis, D-Georgia, is among the individuals scheduled to speak at the 26th Annual Conference of 100 Black Men of American Inc. in Atlanta. The conference began Wednesday, June 13, and will end Sunday, June 17.
By Barry Cooper How tough is the job market for African-American journalists? Media blogger Richard Prince writes that it is so tough that some black journalists are moving overseas to the Middle East to work. Prince reported recently that Bradley C.
By Barry Cooper CNN contributor Roland Martin says he learned a lot from his month-long suspension from the network in January.
Vice President Joe Biden will address members of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) during the organization's 37th annual national convention and career fair in New Orleans.
by Frederick H. Lowe The U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it has sued the state of Florida and the Florida Secretary of State charging violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by purging voters from the state's voter registration rolls within 90 days of a federal election. The Justice Department, which filed the lawsuit in U.S.
The Seminole County, Fla., Sheriff's Department on Tuesday arrested Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Travyvon Martin.
June 14 through June 20 June 14 1864 ----- Congress passed the Enrollment Act, authorizing equal pay for black soldiers. African-American soldiers formed 166 regiments and fought in more than 500 battles during the Civil War (1861-1865).
Mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has closed Justin's, his Atlanta restaurant, after 14 years in business.