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The notion of circulating black wealth within the black community is nothing new. It’s simply black capitalism – a way to build wealth in the black community by encouraging black people to spend their money with black entrepreneurs and businesses. It was encouraged by leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey. Garvey believed […]
In the days following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) stood alone in Congress to oppose the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which permitted the president to wage war in Afghanistan or against anyone else complicit in harboring or aiding Al Qaeda. Lee again urged restraint in the use […]
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King passed away on Jan. 22 after a “valiant battle with prostate cancer,” according to representatives from the King Center. The civil rights activist and attorney was 62 years old. Dexter was the chairman of […]
Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images The Centennial AME Zion Church is pictured covered by snow in Closter, New Jersey on January 6, 2024. Forecasters warned on January 5 that a deluge of snow and wintery conditions could bring travel chaos to the US northeast this weekend, with some 25 million people subject to a storm warning. CNN […]
Anyone with a mobile phone knows the unpleasant sensation of answering a call from an unfamiliar number only to hear a pre-recorded marketing or scam pitch from a company you have no interest in patronizing. Around 33 million robocalls are made each day to Americans, according to the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)—more than
A record 49,500 people took their own lives last year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the bleak statistics serve as a reminder that suicide is a major endemic in our country. No community is immune. Here in Cook County, the rise in suicides among African American residents is particularly […]
When he was a congressman representing portions of Tallahassee, Al Lawson steered through Congress a measure renaming the city’s main post office after Edwina Stephens, the “mother of the Southside,” the predominantly Black area where the building is located. By the time the naming ceremony transpired this June 10, Lawson, a Black Democrat, had lost […]
By NOREEN NASIR, AARON MORRISON and AISHA I. JEFFERSON (Associated Press) The racist motivations of the white shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are Black, […]
By Noreen Nasir, Aaron Morrison and Aisha I. Jefferson, The Associated Press The racist motivations of the White shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Fla., two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are […]
The racist motivations of the white shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are Black, and that has been the case since the federal government began […]