This year saw a continuation and expansion of many of the positive trends in last year’s list: civil society consultation, gender mainstreaming, transparency, small farmer empowerment. And it saw new initiatives to fill gaps in achieving the MDGs. Yet...
There seems to be one segment of the American population that is making strides in the job market--Black women.
According to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since December, Black women have shaved more than 3 percentage...
While the news has caused much debate, theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that Nigeria is now the third fastest growing economy in the world.
“Nigeria's expanding economy has been very positive news in recent years. Nigeria is the economic heart...
Parents banded together recently to help a group of eighteen young black men to achieve exceptional success in their high school years. Their efforts led to such stellar accomplishments as a one hundred percent high school graduation rate, a...
Boxing great Muhammad Ali, known for his unabashed self-confidence inside and outside the ring as well as his outspokenness on social and humanitarian causes, is the recipient of the 2012 Liberty Medal.
Ali, 70, will receive the medal in a...
The Doors to Several Historic Black Sites May Soon Be Shuttered
Recently, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Historic District, the Ella Little Collins-Malcolm X House in Roxbury, MA and Joe Frazier’s Gym in Philadelphia on its 2012...
At the close of his remarkable essay “Columbus and the Origins of Racism in the Americas,” Jan Carew wrote, “In this hemisphere we cannot just claim that by mingling our blood with that of the destroyer of the Indian,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 17, CMC – The Turks and Caicos Islands is still considering political independence from Britain, Premier Dr. Rufus Ewing has said.
Ewing told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that “independence remains a major issue” three...
According to Roger E. P. Madison, Jr. founder and CEO of iZania.com , the business oriented social networking site for African Americans, it’s not a matter of choosing between online social networking and networking face to face. Business owners...
A friend of mine likes to tell the story of how when she was growing up, if there was a baby shower or a child's birthday her mother would purchase a card with a white child--because there was nothing...
