November 2018 Archive

Unemployment for black men 20 and older increased in October
(Special from Black-mansStreet.Today) – The nation’s businesses added 250,000 jobs in October, but the jobless rate for Blacks in general and for black men 20 and older went up, but ...
Private facility offers clues for rethinking stubborn incarceration challenges
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has described the U. S. government’s use of for-profit private prisons as “an embarrassing and degrading stain ...
41 Latinos in Congress, 2 races still undecided
(Defender News Service) – The number of Latinos serving in Congress will rise to at least 41 in the new year, and that figure most likely will increase when two ...
Power of the Gavel: Five Black Caucus members set to chair committees in Congress
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) – Along with what could be nine new members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the CBC will also likely feature five new Chairmen wielding ...
SUN RA ARKESTRA
Music from the Space Waves along with the flavor of gumbo
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer At times, a simple occurrence can become a life-changing experience. Some might call it fate or perhaps the quest for music that led saxophonist Marshall Allen to ...
The man behind the “Blue Wave” in Texas
By Jeffrey L. Boney NNPA Political Columnist The 2018 midterm elections have come and gone here in the great state of Texas, and all across Texas, especially in Harris County and Fort ...
The deadly peril of white privilege
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist Now how do you explain this? Scott Paul Beierle casually strolls into Hot Yoga Tallahassee in Tallahassee, Florida and just as causally blazes away inside and ...
Hate and horror – when does it stop?
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As strange as it seems, I now view the Bush years with nostalgia. Both Big Bush (POTUS 41) and his son Shrub (POTUS 43) incurred the ...
Deep South states take a long-overdue step out of the Jim Crow past
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, The National Urban League The Urban League Movement congratulates two states in the Deep South that took a step out of the dark Jim Crow past by ...
Free speech and responsibility
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Rapper Kanye West recently announced that he is distancing himself from politics. This comes after he decided to make a series of questionable statements and moves like ...

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