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Harriet Tubman: Moses of Her People > Harriet Tubman was born into harsh slavery as Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman married a free African American at 25. Several years later, fearing she would be sold South, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia where she met William Still, the Philadelphia Stationmaster of the Underground Railroad and learned how the system worked. ...

McDonald’s to Present 21st Young Black Scholars Family Conference > Free One-Day Conference Aims to Jumpstart the College Admissions Process for 8-12 Grade Students and their Parents McDonald’s will present the 21st Annual Young Black Scholars Family Conference on Saturday, March 3 at California State University, Long Beach. Themed “Marked for Excellence,” the free one-day conference will help prepare 8ththrough 12th grade students and their parents on the college admissions process. The ...

Lest We Forget: Frances Grice Champions Local Civil Rights Effort > By Dianne Anderson Long before the notion of Green jobs, sustainable communities and clean energy, there was Frances Grice and the push for equal education through Operation Second Chance. Coming to the Westside of San Bernardino from Michigan, Grice recalls the high ...

Victor Valley Mourns Death of Tuskegee Airman > By Eliz Dowdy Prior to the opening of the film “Red Tails”, the nation was abuzz with the antics of those Black pilots who made history, shattered ethnic myths, and survived the prevailing thoughts of the day to succeed beyond anyone's expectations. Thursday morning, January 19, one of those men, Luther Jefferson, left planet ...

Editorial

Rescuing the American Dream

By Marian Wright Edelman

In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about his grandparents, who were part of the World War II “generation of heroes” who “built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.” The President said, “My grandfather, a veteran of Patton’s Army, got the chance to go

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Market for Disrespect

By Julianne Malveaux

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has one hell of a nerve. In an image that has gone viral, she put her finger in President Obama’s face, apparently lecturing him about something or other, making her the pure picture of arrogant disrespect. Apparently, she has learned from the best of the Read more...

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Stop the Lynching of Democracy

Constitutional Amendment to Stop the Lynching of Democracy

By Dr. Benjamin Chavis

The growing Occupy the Dream movement for economic equality and empowerment emerging across the United States has correctly determined that one of its top priorities is to support fervently the passage of a Constitutional Amendment to make all federal elections publicly financed. Getting corporate

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Upholding Voting Rights

By Benjamin Todd Jealous

President & CEO, NAACP

This year, on the day our nation celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I proudly stood alongside NAACP State Conference presidents on the steps of the capitol building in Columbia, South Carolina for the annual King Day at the Dome March and Rally. The event has grown into a massive commemoration over the years,

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An Apology to Dr. King

by Earl G. Graves, Sr.,

Founder & Publisher, Black Enterprise Magazine

Our Fight for Freedom and Justice is not over.
Now, it is up to our children and grandchildren to ensure that King’s dream is deferred no longer.

More than four decades after his death, the legacy and contributions of Rev. Dr.

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Problem W/Watching Mainstream News

By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

I grew up listening to the news on radio, watching it on TV, and reading it in the paper (and in magazines). I have found myself increasingly weary of mainstream news, however. It is an odd feeling. My political beliefs have always led me to question the mainstream news sources but I would still make a point of watching

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African Americans Lose, Others Gain

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

The unemployment rate is falling for the third month in a row, and in December about 200,000 private sector jobs were created. The monthly unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that unemployment has declined by six tenths of a percentage point since August. Already, some

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Black Church Revives the Movement

By Dr. Benjamin Chavis

One of my favorite mentors and colleagues in the Civil Rights Movement continues to be The Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian. Whenever I am asked the question, "What is the movement?" I always first quote Dr, Vivian who once affirmed, "The movement is about moving people. If people do not become active

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Surge in Polls Helps Obama

By George E. Curry

After winning the show-down with House Republicans shortly before Christmas over extending unemployment insurance and receiving an uptick in his job-approval ratings, President Obama is now in a better position to win re-election, despite a sluggish economy.

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McDonald’s to Present 21st Young Black Scholars Family Conference

Free One-Day Conference Aims to Jumpstart the College Admissions Process for 8-12 Grade Students and their Parents McDonald’s will present the 21st A...
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Victor Valley Mourns Death of Tuskegee Airman

By Eliz Dowdy Prior to the opening of the film “Red Tails”, the nation was abuzz with the antics of those Black pilots who made history, shattere...
read full article

Harriet Tubman: Moses of Her People

Harriet Tubman was born into harsh slavery as Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman married a free African American at 25. Several years l...
read full article

Lest We Forget: Frances Grice Champions Local Civil Rights Effort

By Dianne Anderson Long before the notion of Green jobs, sustainable communities and clean energy, there was Frances Grice and the push for equal edu...
read full article