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 
Literature Can Help Bridge America’s Racial Divide
By Paul Young America's Wire Writers Group   PORTLAND - As America re-elected President Obama, it sent a comforting...
Credo Action from Working Assets: Stand your ground, Mr. President
(Letters to Editors) From: Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets  “Standing up to hostage-taking is the...
European Mission critiques U.S. Disenfranchisement policies
Reprint from The Sentencing Project/ Disenfranchisement News  OSCE Report critical of U.S. Disenfranchisement Policies  The Organization for Security...
CTA Awards second contract for Red Line South Reconstruction
 $43.8 million contract for station improvements meets goals for DBE participation, includes local firms CHICAGO, IL - The Chicago...
Attorney General Madigan, Equip for Equality to honor advocacy work for people with disabilities
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will join with Zena Naiditch, President & CEO of Chicago’s Equip for Equality at its...
“Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation” Saturday, December 1, 2012
 The Illinois Humanities Council will sponsor a conversation with author and activist Beth E. Richie and a panel of local...
Interfaith Coalition to Restore the Water Fee Exemption, prays for relief
Asks Council to do right thing by religious community By Chinta Strausberg  CHICAGO, IL - Today is the full...
First African American female-owned TV/Film Studio and Post Production Facility opens in Georgia
Open Rivers Pictures, Inc. launches Open Rivers Studios, a 16,000 sq. ft. facility in Fayetteville, Georgia  Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) --...
Universal MazJac Enterprises, Inc. celebrates 10-year anniversary as the premier urban marketing partner of Feld Entertainment
CHICAGO, IL –Universal MazJac Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of Compass Public Affairs, celebrates their 10 year anniversary as the premier...
Black leaders to discuss impact of election on Black America
 Town Hall Meeting to kick-off State of the Black World Conference III  WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Black leaders, activists...