By The Admin on May 25, 2011
Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King said on Tuesday they would reintroduce a resolution to pardon boxing legend Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world who was jailed after having a relationship with a white woman.
McCain of Arizona and King of New York urged President Barack Obama to pardon Johnson over [...]
Posted in Congress
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
By 1961, Mary Jean Smith had been a part of sit-ins and received training for nonviolent protest, but she wasn’t ready to challenge segregated travel in the Deep South until she sat behind two white passengers on a city bus in Tennessee.
“They had a transistor radio and were listening to reports about the Freedom Riders. [...]
Posted in Mississippi
By The Admin on May 25, 2011
Broadcasting & Cable
- A group of investors including former FCC Commissioner Tyrone Brown, TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson, syndicated columnist Clarence Page and former GE and NBC exec Paul Besson, are backing the launch of a new nonfiction programming based African American-targeted cable and satellite net, the Black Heritage Network.
According to former WUSA-TV GM Richard Reingold, [...]
Posted in Featured, Media
By The Admin on May 24, 2011
New Jersey must provide about $500 million for its poorer school districts next year, the state Supreme Court said on Tuesday, complicating the state’s ongoing budget negotiations.
The 3-2 court ruling, concerning what are known as the Abbott districts, is the latest development in a decades-long battle over state education funding for poor and other disadvantaged [...]
Posted in Education, New Jersey
By The Admin on May 24, 2011
Miami Herald
- In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of color or are simply more often darker skinned , depending on how you read the much-debated new analysis of the census here.
A recently released 2010 survey showed that Brazil became for the [...]
Posted in International News, Race
