African-American News

A new study by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers shows that body-mass index and co-existing medical conditions do not explain the decreased survival observed among African-Americans compared to Caucasians who also have colon cancer.

A south suburban rental agent who allegedly refused to rent properties to African-Americans was sued in federal court Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office and Justice Department Civil Rights Division announced.

The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright last night urged several hundred people at the NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet that Americans must learn to work past their differences.

Black lawmakers face unexpected challenges now that they have seized unprecedented power Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress - and face new challenges to using their long-sought ...

While as many as 108 cases remain open with the FBI, they can use the public's help in identifying the victim's next of kin in 33 cases.

There is a saying that claims, "There is no such thing as a no good woman...if so, she was made by a no good man." Well, the publisher of Virtue Today Magazine , feels that both men and women are wounded souls that cause "hurting people to hurt people." The new issue of Virtue Today ordained the "healing issue," provides a healing for just about ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus threatened to oppose a key financial regulatory reform bill Thursday over unrelated economic concerns, forcing Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank to yank his bill before a final committee vote.

Marijuana, music and video games are potentially Mind Controlling agents. Mind control is also referred to as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, and thought reform. It refers to a broad range of psychological methods and processes thought to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thoughts, behaviors, emotions, or decision-making. Brainwashing and mind control theories originally developed to explain how the enemy indoctrinated their people using mind control techniques. Drugs and chemicals were also experimented with. The Nazis were heavily involved in such methods. Ecstasy was routinely given to the soldiers to keep them overly violent. What is not widely known is the fact that following the war, Nazi scientists infiltrated the American Psychiatric community, many becoming leaders.

The leader of the Nation of Islam began a major lecture series, a oeThe Time and What Must Be Done,a by using scripture, current events, social conditions and, at times humor, in a poignant warning about the need to change to avoid divine chastisement as an old world goes out and a new reality begins to come into existence.

*Highland Park, MI. -- A 37-year-old man was arraigned today in 30th District Court after being accused of shooting his teenage son execution-style while the boy pleaded for his life.

Jamar Pinkney Sr. faces one count of first-degree murder, three counts of felonious assault and one count of felony firearm.

Judge Bridgette Officer today in court ordered Pinkney Sr. to be held without bond as he awaits a preliminary exam on Dec. 1.

The courtroom was packed with emotional family members, including one who broke down and was escorted out of the room. Click over to read more and link to full story.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nooooo it’s the Heron! Gil Scott-Heron that is!

The man that had been long thought dead has arisen and is back with a new album that has only been whispered about as legend in smoky after hour joints for years.

He’s come out of the shadows to grace the stage and preach once again.

Gil Scott-Heron, in case you’re not familiar as you should be, set the stage for hip-hop. The poetry and verse that he’s given us, like “The Revolution Won’t Be Televized”, gave Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five their Message.

Heron was one of the first to lay the truth on track and pave the way for the beginning of the rap game.

Reporting from Atlanta - In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed "gross negligence" in failing to maintain a navigation channel -- resulting in levee breaches that flooded large swaths of greater New Orleans.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval peppered his 156-page decision, issued in New Orleans, with harsh criticism of the Army corps, at one point citing its "insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness" in failing to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, known locally as MRGO.

Irene Khan meets members of the Alyawarr language group. Amnesty International has slammed the Australian government's inability to tackle the poverty the country's aborigines are facing. The London-based organization's visiting Secretary-General Irene Khan said on Wednesday that the conditions aboriginals are facing are deeply disturbing and require a new approach. "In the heart of the First World, I saw scenes more reminiscent of the Third World - of countries torn by war, dominated by repressive regimes or racked by corruption," AP quoted Khan, a Bangladesh-born lawyer, as saying. She underlined that the aborigines are suffering from the violation of their basic human rights.

The boys are back and better than ever in a new series! All your favorite characters are back along with appearances from a whole bunch of A-list celebrities, like Rove, Keisha Castle-Hughes, famous New Zealand fashion designers Denise L'Estrange-Corbet and Francis Hooper, Kate Sylvester and Karen Walker, as well as Michael Jones, Nathan Rarere, Teuila Blakely, John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld, and even Prince Charles! New Zealand's first adult-targeted animated series – often compared to The Simpsons or South Park – Bro’Town follows five teenagers through the “mean streets” of Auckland, New Zealand. Set amongst the country’s growing Pacific Islander community, the series is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans. Of course, the boys get up to all sorts of antics in the second series. They attend Morningside Fashion Week, get lost in the bush, adopt a baby and convince their dad to buy a racehorse. All episodes of Bro'Town, Season 2 are now available in their entirety online for viewers in the U.S.!

Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress - and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.

Would you join the oath keepers?

Such a time is near at hand again. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this Army -- and this Marine Corps, This Air Force, This Navy and the National Guard and police units of these sovereign states.

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, fire-fighters, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and meant it. We won’t “just follow orders.”

Below is our declaration of orders we will NOT obey because we will consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral violations of the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be acts of war against the American people by their own government, and thus acts of treason. We will not make war against our own people. We will not commit treason. We will defend the Republic.

Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in control of some of the most powerful positions in Congress - and face new challenges to using their long-sought influence.

(CNN) -- A doctor in suburban Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was arrested Monday and accused in the early morning death of his 9-year-old son, police said.

Dr. Stephen Wolf, 51, faces first-degree murder charges, said Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, Police Chief Richard Mask.

Third-grader Tommy Wolf was dead when authorities arrived at the family's home about 4 a.m. CT in response to several 911 calls,

"It was obvious there had been some type of altercation" when police arrived, Mask said. Arriving officers disarmed Wolf, he said, but did not elaborate except to say a knife was found at the home. Although the investigation is still under way, authorities believe the altercation may have begun in the boy's room "and proceeded from there" to other rooms, Mask said.

When the black folks rolled into Kennett, Missouri for our rally, the entire town stopped, the police showed up in massive force and there were even snipers on the rooftops. I assume the snipers were there for our protection, but after visiting the Lorraine Hotel (where Dr. King was killed) just the day before, I was honestly a wee bit nervous. There were people standing on the side of the road, taking pictures and some holding up flags with swastikas and confederate flags on them. It was very interesting.

There was a standoff with police and the city attorney's office over whether or not our permit was valid. This led to some yelling back and forth between Heather's father and the officers, but I simply sat quietly during the entire process, since we'd won the battle before it even began. After the yelling stopped, our outstanding legal team simply informed the officers that we had legal grounds to hold our march with the specified permit. The officers (joined by the city attorney) had a three minute meeting and then came back to inform us that we would be allowed to march as we'd specified. THIS IS A REMINDER THAT EDUCATION IS ONE OF THE GREATEST WEAPONS YOU CAN HAVE WHEN DEFENDING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS - IT IS BEST TO JUST WALK SOFTLY AND MAKE SURE YOU CARRY THE BIGGER INTELLECTUAL STICK.

As social justice minded people, we may bristle at homophobia, sexism, racism or ableism, however; what we often fail to do is honour the rage, if it manifests in a way that makes us uncomfortable. If said rage interacts with something that we have personalized, somehow it is not acceptable and we turn our backs upon the marginalized person.

Black woman are often called angry, when they dare to speak about racism, thus denying that rage is a legitimate response to being demeaned. When you decide that you have the right to taunt someone, you have no idea what kind of marginalization that they have put up with before encountering you. You have no idea the fear they may have built up regarding those considered privileged, after countless encounters and yet we still expect that they will react in a way that soothes our sensibilities. The fight or flight instinct is alive and well in all of us.