Black farmers’ quest for justice draws to a close
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – After decades of discrimination and years of legal wrangling, black American farmers are rushing to beat a May 11 deadline to file racial discrimination claims against...
View Article25 Ohio supermax prisoners start a hunger strike
by Ben Turk The successful conclusion of the Lucasville prisoners’ hunger strike in January 2011, which inspired the California hunger strike in July, was celebrated with a march and rally on Martin...
View ArticleOhio hunger strike ends
Youngstown, Ohio, May 9, 2012 – After long negotiations with Warden David Bobby on Monday, May 7, the hunger-striking prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) began eating again. Two of the men held...
View ArticleBloomberg’s budget: More teachers but fewer after-school slots and...
Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo Michael R. Bloomberg Michael R. Bloomberg Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:00 am By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff |0 comments It couldn’t all be good news, right? Last...
View ArticleHealthcare debate will continue beyond upcoming Supreme Court ruling
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even if the Affordable Care Act survives U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny, a favorable ruling this summer will not serve as a cure-all for...
View ArticleIll. House OKs ‘modernizing’ eavesdropping law
by John O’Connor SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The lawmaker behind Tuesday’s House approval of a measure allowing people to audio record on-duty police officers says the proposal “modernizes” state law in...
View ArticleCourt Rules Google Must Reveal Negative YouTube Commenter’s Identity
NEW YORK — A business consultant who wants to know who’s been anonymously disparaging and fixating on her online has gotten a court to force Google to tell her. As she joined a growing number of people...
View ArticleAre Black Lawmakers Being Unfairly Targeted?
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was working to make sure minority-owned banks...
View ArticleIncrease In Loan Interest Rates Defers Black Students’ Dreams
by Dr. Elsie Scott TriceEdney Wire The recent efforts to protect students from facing interest rates on their student loans estimated to double by July 1, 2012, is critical to ensuring that the next...
View ArticleAre There Really Just Five Racial Groups?
How the government developed its racial-classification system. By Brian Palmer| For the first time in America, Asians and other minority babies now outnumber white babies Tong Ro/Image Stock. For the...
View ArticleUS poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s
The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net....
View Article“For the first time in my life,I will be voting against a Republican...
A life-long Republican, voted for John McCain, and supported Mitt Romney as the most realisticcandidate in the primaries. However, as both a Republican and more importantly an American, I did not...
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