By The Admin on December 27, 2010
Blacks made up nearly two-thirds of the Democrats removed from Louisiana’s voter rolls because they hadn’t voted in at least two years.
State election officials tell The Advocate it’s a result of Hurricane Katrina’s displacement of people from heavily Democratic and black New Orleans.
After the hurricane in 2005, the purges – legally required in even-numbered years [...]
Posted in Louisiana
By The Admin on December 27, 2010
Black Voice News
- During the first national meeting of the newly formed Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC), bishops, pastors, and lay leaders began rolling out the strategic plans for improving the lives of African Americans and underserved communities. The organization, which represents nine of the largest historically Black denominations with 30 million people and [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on December 27, 2010
A publicist says Motown singer Teena Marie, who was known as the “Ivory Queen of Soul,” has died at age 54.
The confirmation came Sunday from publicist Jasmine Vega, who worked with Teena Marie on her last album. Her manager, Mike Gardner, also confirmed her death to CNN.
Marie developed a lasting legacy her silky soul pipes [...]
Posted in Featured, Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on December 26, 2010
Growing up in segregated Memphis, Tenn., during the Jim Crow era, Augustus White III knew about those certain places off-limits to him as a black man — restrooms, diners and schools.
He just didn’t pay racial barriers much mind.
The son of a doctor and teacher became the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School, the [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on December 26, 2010
Under a towering Christmas tree, 3-year-old Sevil Fletcher giggled in delight amid some not-so-rough roughhousing with his brother and sister.
There were snow drifts outside the comfortable suburban home, and the warmth of a close-knit family inside, as his parents, Brian and Emily Fletcher, recounted how Sevil — his infancy spent in a faraway orphanage — [...]
Posted in International News
