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Gov. Jindal said he is appealing the decision A U.S. District Court Judge in New Orleans has ruled that Louisiana Associate Supreme Court Justice Bernette J.
Most of the teachers are black men by Jill Tucker San Francisco Chronicle In the first hour of the first day of school Tuesday, the sixth-grade Oakland, Calif.
by Hazel Trice Edney CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Now that President Barack Obama and other Democratic National Convention speakers have made their cases for why Americans must move “Forward” to re-elect him president, the challenge will be to take the momentum to the polls Nov.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
30,000 Cheer First Lady at Democratic Convention By Hazel Trice Edney CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TriceEdneyWire.
by Frederick H. Lowe Lewis Carl Hamilton, the world’s only black Formula 1 race car driver, won Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix, putting him in contention to win his second world driving championship in four years. Hamilton drove his McLaren to first place past the waving checkered flag on the course in Monza, Italy. Hamilton finished in a time of 1:19:41.221, defeating Fernando Alonso, who finished third in his Ferrari but extended his overall lead for the world driving championship.
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., has been released from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was being treated for a bipolar disorder, but it is not clear when he will return to work.
by Frederick H. Lowe Black men and black women continue to have the highest unemployment rate among major worker groups, although the overall jobless rate dropped in August, according to the U.S.
by Frederick H. Lowe The employment-population ratio for black men and black women 20 years old and older was virtually unchanged in August at 56.2 percent, compared with July's 56.
by Frederick H. Lowe FBI agents on Monday arrested Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony F.
by A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com) - The only speaker whose performance I watched at the Republican National Convention was that of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) - The 2012 Democratic National Convention was an exuberant celebration of President Obama, his accomplishments, and the many ways his Presidency has made us better off than we were four years ago.
by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Inevitably, the Democratic Party fest in Charlotte, N.C., has been compared to the Republican gathering in Tampa, Fla.
Corrections have taken a larger share of California’s budget than higher education has over the past 30 years, according to a study by California Common Sense, a nonprofit watchdog group.
Obama for America, President Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising arm, announced on Monday that for the first time in three months it has out raised Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s candidate for president. “We finally closed the gap.
41.6% of Students are African-American Teachers employed by the Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school system, went on strike on Monday, one week after schools opened for the new year.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a Manhattan, New York, church for endorsing Republican Mitt Romney for president.
U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla. has awarded $10,000 in college scholarships to students in her district in recognition of United Nations World Humanitarian Day.
Change.org is conducting an online petition drive to halt enlargement of a monument on public land honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and a Confederate Army general who ordered the massacre of black Union soldiers during a Civil War battle. The monument to Forrest is being built in Selma, Ala., but Change.org said more than 80,000 people have signed the petition in support of Malika Sanders-Fortier.
School establishes anti-hazing website Florida A&M University last week launched an anti-hazing website, shortly after interim President Larry Robinson suspended the school's dance team for an off-campus hazing incident. The website StopHazingatFAMU.com is designed to educate students, faculty, alumni and others about the dangers of hazing.
September 13 through September 19 September 13 1885 ----- Alain Locke, African-American educator, philosopher and patron of the arts, was born on this date in Philadelphia.
More black women than black men served as delegates at the recently held Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
After months of contending with bad news, Florida A& M University on Tuesday announced that it received some very good news. Forbes magazine named Florida A&M one of the nation’s top colleges and one of the nation’s best research universities.
Dr. Dre has the right prescription for making money. He landed on top of Forbes magazine’s “Hip-Hop Cash Kings’ " list by earning $110 million in the last year. Dr.
The fab couple, Jay-Z and Beyonce, will host a fund-raiser in New York for the re-election of President Barack Obama. The event will be held on Tuesday, September 18, at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club.
The African American Male Resource Center at Chicago State University will host author Steve Bell as part of the college’s 2012 Habari Gani Speakers’ Series.
Two white Atlanta cops have been cleared of racially profiling movie director, actor and studio owner Tyler Perry, several news outlets reported on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts around the world, following the murders of U.S. Ambassador J.