NAACP Statement on Gov. Nikki Haley’s Call for the Removal of the Confederate Flag on Capitol Ground
BALTIMORE, MD – On Monday, June 22nd, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the Confederate battle flag to be...
Year: 2015
Former Financial Icon Clark Burrus dead at 86
By Chinta Strausberg Funeral services will be held 12 Noon Thursday, June 25, 2015, at the Congregational Church of Park...
Columbia University to Divest From Private Prisons
Student Organizing Results in Columbia University Becoming First to Divest from Private Prison Industry On Monday June 22nd, following sixteen...
Just Say No To Fast Track Rally Today at the Dirksen Federal Building
Beginning at 9:30 A.M., June 23, 2015 and continuing preferably through the cloture vote on Fast Track trade authority, currently...
Revealing Black Men on Father’s Day: By Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters
It is time to reclaim Father's Day, and in so doing celebrate what we are actually doing and what we...
Jesse, Jonathan Jackson Called Charleston 9 Murders “Domestic Terrorismâ€
By Chinta Strausberg Calling the killing of the nine black members of the Emanuel A.M.E. church by 21-year-old Dylan Roof...
Urban League Launches “One Nation, One Flag” Campaign in Support of Effort to Remove Confederate Flag
NEW YORK -- The National Urban League and its South Carolina affiliates today launched the “One Nation, One Flag†campaign...
The American Dream on Hold: Economic Challenges in the African American Community
Congressional Black Caucus and Joint Economic Committee Democrats Hold Public Forum and Press Conference in Baltimore WASHINGTON, D.C. – A...
Statement by President Obama on the Observance of Juneteenth
President Barack Obama: On this day 150 years ago, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,...
The Tears Of A Black Mother
News4usonline.com, By Dennis J. Freeman Tritobia Ford, mother of Ezell Ford, the mentally ill man who died during an altercation...
