Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00

Written by Bill Fletcher, Jr.

It will strike many of you as counter-intuitive, but there has been a rising phenomenon of unemployed workers suffering discrimination when they have sought work because…they have been unemployed. This is not an exaggeration.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00

Written by Jeffrey L. Boney, Associate Editor

I am still at a loss for words after seeing the devastation that hit Moore, Oklahoma on this past Monday afternoon, when a monster tornado tore through the town killing at least 24 people which included 9 children.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00

Written by Hazel Trice Edney

The 2013 Morehouse College Commencement theme, “Keeping Our Focus,” defined by the university’s President John Wilson as attending to important matters “to the exclusion of distractions” appears to also describe the strategy employed by its graduation speaker – President Barack Obama.

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00

Written by Admin

Members of the newly emerged C. Travis Traylor, Jr. Eagle Class of 2012 gathered on Sunday, May 19th, at Crowne Plaza Hotel near Reliant Park for the annual Gathering of Eagles Reception hosted by the Eagle Scout Association of the Boy Scouts of America’s - Sam Houston Area Council (SHAC).

Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00

Written by Jeffrey L. Boney

For the second year in a row, the Houston Forward Times, the largest Black-owned independently published newspaper in the South, held its second annual Visionary Pastor’s Awards ceremony.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:00

Written by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

The April jobs report has been hailed as good news by the nation’s newspapers. But a look under the numbers is more sobering. In Chicago and cities across the country, extreme poverty remains high, and the jobless still haunt our streets.