African-American News

First we had Russell Simons endorsing the Rush Card and now we have Montel Williams endorsing payday loans. Are we ever going to arrive at the day when Black celebrities decide that it is not okay to promote these predatory business models to vulnerable members of society?

Black blogs continually speak about the racism that we face, but what happens when the face of the oppressor is brown like yours? Montel exists with extreme class privilege and he will never have to access the very loans that he is busy peddling to an unsuspecting public.

As we mark the 50th anniversary this month of a hallmark image of the civil rights era - the earliest lunch-counter sit-ins - it's worth noting how all five freedoms in the First Amendment nurtured and empowered a movement that transformed our society.

The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Like just about everything else celebratory, it comes every year. But for African-American - or Black - History Month, this hasn't been the case for long.

With two feet of snow on the ground, there wasn't a car on the roads of Northwest Washington, D.C. However, the roads were packed though - packed full of people walking to great snowball fight of Malcolm X Park.

Shirley Chisholm was born as Shirley Anita St. Hill on Nov. 30, 1924, in New York City to Barbadian parents.

The importance of the Civil Rights Movement isn't lost on Elizabeth Guerrero . The daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants, Guerrero said life in the United States "could have been much harder" for her and her family, had it not been for the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and other activists.

The histories of HBCU institutions are deeply linked with the history of our people. Some of our best and brightest minds and historical figures have graduated from HBCU campuses. Ground breaking research benefiting all Americans has happened on campuses such as Tuskegee University.

But one area HBCU's are sorely lacking in is understanding what's up with African descended GLBT people. The transphobic and homophobic incidents that have occurred on various HBCU campuses in the last two decades point out the pressing need to dispel some misconceptions about who and what we are. Some of my African descended peeps could definitely use the face time with transpeople to dispel the faith based lies they're being fed about us as well.

Not being able to or being extended the invitation to do trans presentations on HBCU campuses is wounding on another level as well. We have seen our white brothers and sisters get routinely invited in the same time period to do these collegiate discussions, and it hurts when we see there aren't similar efforts taking place at HBCU's.

As part of its Black History Month observance, the Public Broadcasting Service is airing a two-part series this month called "For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots." PBS describes it as "a powerful documentary television series that salutes our African-American service men and women and reveres their dedicated allegiance to the ...

Paul are joining districts nationwide Monday in celebrating National African American Parent Involvement Day.

Didi Almog, Linda Benjamin, Gen. Doron Almog and Roger Benjamin at a recent Jewish National Fund meeting at the Palm Beach home of Linda and Roger Benjamin.

New Orleans elected its first white mayor in 32 years, ushering in hopes of a new era in a city still trying to rebuild five years after Hurricane Katrina.

Photographs of President Barack Obama's first year in the White House are now on display at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.

Sunday, February 07, 2010 at 11:53 a.m. Read more: Local , Health , AIDS , HIV , African American , Black Sunday is national Black HIV/AIDS awareness day, and in the Syracuse area, African-American congregations are hearing church sermons about the dangers of the disease, and the need to get tested.A Rev.

The "sixties" were born on Feb. 1, 1960, 50 years ago this week, when four African-American college students staged the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Since then, the mythology of the '60s has dominated the idea of youthful activism.

It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanced through the Meuse-Argonne, landed on Iwo Jima, liberated Seoul and was taken prisoner in Hanoi.

Nicky Oppenheimer, Africa's richest man, and De Beers, the company his family built into the world's biggest diamond producer, must prepare for the nationalization of their South African assets, the Youth League of the ruling African National Congress said.

If you're not black, you're history : Rep. John Conyers Jr. has called on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to demote the official coordinating Haiti relief efforts for not having enough minority staffers.

The head of the National Black Farmers Association is urging African-American farmers to strongly lobby lawmakers to get them to approve a $1.15 billion discrimination settlement.

Politics are competing for attention with Carnival parades and Super Bowl party preparations as New Orleans voters make their choice to succeed term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin.