Texas congresswoman Johnson admits she violated rules

Texas congresswoman Johnson admits she violated rules

By The Admin on August 31, 2010

A Texas congresswoman admitted that she wrongly steered thousands of dollars in college scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to her own relatives and children of a staff member but said she did so unwittingly.
Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson told The Dallas Morning News that she arranged the scholarships over the last four years [...]

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Wright criticizes those who think Obama is Muslim

Wright criticizes those who think Obama is Muslim

By The Admin on August 29, 2010

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas.
In his sermon at New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Wright criticized supporters of the Iraq war and defended former state Court of Appeals Judge Wendell [...]

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Obama pledges Gulf support on Katrina anniversary

Obama pledges Gulf support on Katrina anniversary

By The Admin on August 29, 2010

Five years after Hurricane Katrina’s wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause. “My administration is going to stand with you, and fight alongside you, until the job is done,” Obama said to cheers at Xavier University, a historically black, Catholic university that was [...]

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Maxine Waters' attorneys to ethics panel: Back off

Maxine Waters’ attorneys to ethics panel: Back off

By The Admin on August 26, 2010

Politico
- Attorneys for Rep. Maxine Waters are demanding that the ethics committee stop investigating the California Democrat before her upcoming congressional trial on ethics charges.
In an Aug. 25 letter to Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the chairwoman and ranking member of the panel, attorneys Stan Brand and Andrew Herman claim that the [...]

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Russell Simmons offers support for NYC mosque

Russell Simmons offers support for NYC mosque

By The Admin on August 26, 2010

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons has put high-visibility support behind a proposed cultural center and mosque near ground zero, using the windows of his top-floor apartment across the street from the site where the World Trade Center stood to display a call for coexistence, loving one’s neighbor and support of the First Amendment.
“I was trying to [...]

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National Council Of Negro Women Celebrates 25 Years Of Honoring Black Families On The National Mall

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Washington Informer
- On September 11, 2010, the Black Family Reunion Celebrates a One Day Mega Festival from 8:30AM to 8:30PM including a free Tribute Concert to Dr. Dorothy I. Height featuring Chrisette Michele, Musiq Soulchild, Regina Belle and J. Moss. It opens with an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast hosted by Yolanda Adams and keynote speaker Reverend [...]

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Ethnic differences seen in youth drug use

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

CNN
- Teens of different ethnic groups use alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes for different reasons and educators should use different strategies to keep them clean, according to a new study that was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The study is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Researchers analyzed [...]

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On Labor Day, grim news for young black jobseekers

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Lexington Herald-Leader
- There’s little to celebrate this Labor Day. The unemployment rate for July, stuck at 9.5 percent, means that 14.6 million people who have been looking for work are still jobless.
The situation is even worse for blacks between the ages of 16 and 24. Only one in three of them has a job. An [...]

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Some states haven’t changed coke-crack disparity

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in James V. Taylor’s car that investigators described it as unweighable. It was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine.
Missouri and several other states followed the federal government’s lead in creating such disparities [...]

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The never ending distortion of blacks in the media

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

The Famuan
- For too long, African Americans have been misrepresented in all forms of media. Most of the time, it is to no fault of our own. Still, too often we are the very reason for such misconceptions.
Instead of working on trying to change the stereotypical image that plagues us all, we entertain it. How [...]

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A numbers game for minority football head coaches

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Black Coaches & Administrators
- The September 4 football game featuring African-American head coaches Charlie Strong (Louisville) and Joker Phillips (Kentucky) spotlights an increase in the number of minority head coaches on the sidelines this season.
The number of minority coaches in Division I at the Football Bowl Subdivision level compared to this time last year increased [...]

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Encouraging Entrepreneurship Among HBCU Students

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Diverse Education
- In the mid-1990s, Amir Pirzadeh had an idea for improving sawmills. But he struggled with how to turn a technical innovation into a profitable business.
That changed in 2007 when Pirzadeh, an MBA student at Fayetteville State University, and classmates won a business competition — the Opportunity Funding Corporation’s (OFC) Venture Challenge. Three years [...]

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King’s ‘Dream’ Message Survives the Latest in 47 Years of Flawed Messengers

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

Huffington Post
- Last week in a commentary in the Huffington Post, we promised not to prejudge Glenn Beck’s planned Lincoln Memorial rally to “Restore Honor” on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s “I Have A Dream” speech. With the rally concluded, however, it is time to weigh in not in anticipation of [...]

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Most disadvantaged, African-American men

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

The most needy and least helped of the U.S. disadvantaged are most likely to be African-American men, researchers suggest.
Waldo E. Johnson Jr., an associate professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, says black men suffer in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their [...]

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Nascar Turns to TV to Boost Minorities

By The Admin on September 1, 2010

New York Times
- A few clicks on the Web site of Black Entertainment Television leads viewers to a short Nascar tutorial filled with information about popular drivers, racetracks and salaries.
It may seem odd to find a sport so closely tied to white Southern men featured on a Web site devoted to African-American entertainment, but it [...]

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