Wednesday, 09 January 2013 00:00

Written by Cash Michaels

In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a significant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington Ten.

Tuesday, 25 December 2012 00:00

Written by Alexis Taylor

Researchers have made a connection between childhood abuse suffered by African-American women and asthma which develops later in their lives.

As part of the Black Women’s Health Study at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, conducted from 1995 to 2011, a total of 28,456 women gave information on physical and sexual abuse suffered before age 11, as well as between the ages of 12 and 18.

Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:00

Written by A. Barry Rand

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

- H.L. Mencken

Wrong. The proposal to raise Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67 in 2014 is wrong. Who stands to gain by this approach? Not the government. Not current and future seniors. And most definitely not older African Americans and other older minorities – these groups stand to lose the most.

Raising the Medicare eligibility age would actually cost much more than it would save, in dollars and in quality of life. A Kaiser Family Foundation study found the proposal would save the federal government $5.7 billion in 2014, but at the same time impose id="mce_marker"1.4 billion more in spending on individuals, employers and state governments.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:00

Written by Admin

Dear Chairman Cleaver,

On May 29, 2012, Bob Law, Betty Dopson, Michael North, andNew York City Councilman Charles Barron in our individual listener capacities and as representatives of a putative class of New York City listeners, filed a petition with the FCC to prevent the transference of the broadcast license of New York’s Inner City Broadcasting, to YMF Media. The issue we have raised goes well beyond New York City, It has implications for Black communities nation wide.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:00

Written by Admin

People around the world are praying for the health of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela as he remained hospitalized since last weekend for reasons that have not been publicly announced.

Widespread reports say the 94-year-old justice icon is doing well, but Associated Press described concerned Sunday morning worshipers at Soweto’s Regina Mundi Catholic Church as praying for the Nobel Laureate, a symbol of freedom and democracy around the world. The church “once served as a major rallying point for anti-apartheid activists,” the AP described.