By The Admin on August 14, 2011
A year ago, Colorado’s African-American community braced for the unimaginable: a legislature without a single black lawmaker for the first time in nearly six decades.
Denver’s first black mayor, Wellington Webb, was among those who fretted about whether African-Americans would have a voice when the legislature convened in 2011.
But much has changed in the past 12 [...]
Posted in Colorado
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
The painful images and graphic stories of repeated violent assaults and vandalism by mobs of black teenagers had gotten to be too much for Mayor Michael Nutter.
As an elected official and a “proud black man” in the nation’s fifth-largest city, Nutter felt he had to go a step beyond ordering a law enforcement crackdown.
So he [...]
Posted in Pennsylvania, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
BET
- The white Mississippi teens who beat up and ran over a Black man with a pickup truck may be responsible for attacking homeless Black men in the area, the head of Mississippi’s NAACP told ABCNews.com.
A horrific surveillance video surfaced this week of Deryl Dedmon, 18, and several of his friends beating James Anderson, a [...]
Posted in Mississippi, Race
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
Chicago Defender
- The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) just made an important game-changing announcement at its recent national convention in New Orleans. NAREB announced a historic engagement with Wall Street investors to launch a $800 million Homeowner’s Assurance Program (HAP) to address the devastating effects of the housing mortgage crisis for Black America [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on August 14, 2011
Carlton J. Roy Sr., a black businessman who worked against segregation alongside influential New Orleans civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Avery Alexander and Dorothy Mae Taylor, has died. He was 94.
Roy died on Aug. 6 in the city he did most of his work, according to a funeral announcement. Grandson Shedrick Roy said [...]
Posted in Louisiana
