Black-Brown Summit focuses on roots of crime
August 22, 2007
SERGIO CHAPA, Al Día
Participants at the first Black-Brown Summit called for drug rehabilitation, job training and other programs to reduce the disproportionate number of blacks and Hispanics represented in state and federal prisons.
The event drew more than 100 members and leaders from the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens from across the nation to the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Dallas on Monday for two days of of workshops, discussions and coalition-building activities.
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Althea Gibson to be Commemorated at U.S. Open
August 22, 2007
Black PR Wire
There may only be a handful of people left in the world who haven’t heard of tennis sensation Venus Williams. Even non-tennis fans noticed the headlines this summer when Williams won her fourth Wimbledon title. If several people were surveyed about who was the first major African American tennis player, many would mention Williams, in tandem with her sister Serena. People more knowledgeable about tennis or with longer memories may mention Arthur Ashe. For the organizers of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), that honor belongs to Althea Gibson (FAMU ‘53).
Pressure builds to end abuse of black women
August 20, 2007
Lori Robinson, Chicago Tribune
I never thought I would see the day R. Kelly would stand trial.
After all, it has been five years since the now 40-year-old R&B superstar was charged with several counts of child pornography. With jury selection slated to finally start next month, the infamous videotape of Kelly allegedly having sex with an underage girl has become a distant memory.
The good news is that momentum is mounting against the use of words and images that denigrate African-American women and girls in so much popular music. But will the black community hold individual African-Americans accountable for actions that harm women?
A revealing look at Bob Johnson
August 20, 2007
George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist
Black Entertainment Television received an award from the National Association of Black Journalists last week that it did not want - the group’s Thumbs Down Award. The NABJ Board of Directors voted to give the non-ward award to BET for its depiction of Black images in the media, lack of news and public affairs and the network’s neglect to broadcast the funeral of civil rights icon Coretta Scott King in 2006.
The Terrance Aeriel, Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower Act
August 20, 2007
Newt Gingrich, National Review
While Republicans were focused on the kabuki-theater politics of the Iowa presidential straw poll last week, a tragedy with real implications for the nation’s -and the party’s — future was playing out on the other side of the country. The night of Saturday, August 4, four young, college students were forced to kneel against a wall in a schoolyard in Newark, New Jersey.
They were then shot, execution-style, in the head. Three were killed and a fourth survived. Just as the entertainment and free barbecue of the Iowa presidential beauty contest was getting underway, the news broke that the shooter in the Newark killings was an illegal immigrant who had recently been indicted for repeatedly raping a five-year-old relative and threatening the lives of her and her family.
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