Vivica A. Fox Stars in and Produces the New LMN Thriller “The Wrong Housemaid” 
Three Women Fighting to Preserve an Important Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia 
63-Year-Old Black Athlete/ Track Star is Running Faster Than She Did in Her 50s 
14-Year-Old Black CEO Launches Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and $10K Pitch Competition 
Founder Rejects $15K Offer for Breakthrough Patent-Pending Software 
Cook County correctional officer charged with 1997 sexual assault
A Cook County correctional officer has been charged in connection with the 1997 ongoing sexual assault of his 10-year-old step...
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Prayer Breakfast continues to inspire positive community change
  Nationally recognized Pastor Frederick Haynes III of Dallas to Deliver Keynote Address  Washington, DC – The Congressional Black...
Illinois Republican Party: Cullerton needs to clean up pension mess he created
Chicago, IL – Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady said State Senate President John Cullerton needs to fix the state’s broken...
Crowdsourcing effort by the Active Transportation Alliance gets you ready for the commute on the Chicago Lakefront Trail
Get the scoop on high-waves, headwinds, detours and more before you step out of your door  As the post-Labor...
Veteran print/broadcast Journalist Henrietta Burroughs recognized for Journalism Accomplishments
The Alliance for Community Media and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Bestowed Honors Henrietta J. Burroughs, award-winning journalist...
President Obama's remarks in Address to the United Nations General Assembly
United Nations New York, New York 10:12 A.M. EDT Â President Obama: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies...
The National Black Church Initiative calls on President Obama to order Attorney General Holder and Justice Department to ask the State of Georgia for a Judicial Review of the Case of Troy Davis
Are high ranking African American elected officials going to allow the execution occur without a legal review? Â Washington, DC...
Troy Davis will refuse his last meal
 (From Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO, NAACP)  This morning (Tuesday, 9/20/11), our worst fears came true. Despite widespread doubt,...
President Obama's Mission Impossible
By H. Lewis Smith Nationwide (September 21, 2011) -- Upon Barack Obama's election to President of the United States, euphoria,...
National Urban League helping mortgage scam victims
 By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO National Urban League   "The thought of my home being taken...