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Month: August 2017

Lifestyle

Berkeley Professor Aims to Eliminate Natural Hair Bans in Schools

August 21, 2017 Staff 0

Berkeley professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig is well versed in employment discrimination so she’s using her expertise to take on school policies that discriminate against Black students by attempting to ban or punish students who wear dreadlocks […]

National

Texas Governor Signs Sandra Bland Act Into Law With Major Revisions

August 17, 2017 Staff 0

By Taryn Finely, huffingtonpost.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Sandra Bland Act into law Thursday to address the circumstances that led to Bland’s death in July 2015. The new law mandates the county jails […]

National

Confederate Statue Toppled in North Carolina During Anti-racism Rally

August 16, 2017 Staff 0

(The Guardian) Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier on Monday at a rally against racism. Activists in Durham brought a ladder to the statue and used a rope […]

Lifestyle

Sherri Shepherd Gifts Audience With Laughter for the Soul

August 16, 2017 admin 0

Last weekend comedian, actress and author Sherri Shepherd bought her “Wiser, Prettier, Funnier & Tired” tour to the Comedy Zone in Mandarin. A former legal secretary, Sherri is traveling the country sharing her life with […]

Community

Jax Citizens Gather in Riverside to protest Recent Racist Riots and Confederate Monuments

August 16, 2017 admin 0

The president of Jacksonville City Council answered the this week of weekend protestors asking several city departments to conduct an inventory of all Confederate monuments, memorials and markers on public property with the intention of asking […]

Education

Al Sharpton Keynote Speaker at 48th A. Phillip Randolph National Education Conference

August 16, 2017 admin 0

Philip Randolph Institution 48th National Education Conference was held earlier this month in Hollywood, Florida. A total of 500 plus delegates attended the conference with union members representing more than 26 different Labor Unions. The […]

Community

Community Members Come Together To Discuss Redefining Safety

August 16, 2017 admin 0

Earlier this month two dozen community members varying in age, race and socioeconomic status gathered in the sanctuary of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church with a mission of challenging and expanding our current definition of […]

Editorials

When a President’s Rhetoric Stokes the Fires of Hate and Bigotry – White Supremacy Rises

August 14, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood First, all Americans have the right to march or protest peacefully based on our U.S. Constitution. But the joint KKK and white supremacy groups that marched in Virginia last weekend represented the […]

Editorials

Trump Trains His Sights on Affirmative Action

August 14, 2017 Staff 0

by Jesse Jackson Campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump argued that blacks and other people of color should vote for him. Given their current conditions,  he argued, “What the hell do you have to lose?” […]

OPED

NFL Now Openly Discriminating Against Colin Kaepernick

August 14, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood As one of my pastor friends likes to say, “Let me just cut across the field” on this Colin Kaepernick issue because quite frankly I am pissed off about it. The National […]

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