Top 5 Trends in Ending Hunger and Poverty in 2012
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 we also witnessed push back: organized threats to women’s human rights and civil society that remind us we can never...
Job Gains Made by Black Women
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 points off their unemployment rate, from 13.9 percent to 10.8 percent. That’s the biggest decrease during the last five months...
Will Nigeria's Good Financial Forecast Boost International Trade?
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 of west Africa, and like sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, its macroeconomics are undeniable,” says Joel Patenaude, managing partner at...
Parental Involvement By Black Parents Helps Sons Succeed
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 cumulative grade point average of the boys of 3.7, nearly 1.3 million in college scholarships and ninety-two percent of the...
Muhammad Ali Named 2012 Liberty Medal Recipient
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 ceremony on Sept. 13 in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center on Independence Mall. The three-time world heavyweight champion was...
Famous African American Sites Now on Most Endangered Historic Places List
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 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Each year, the National Trust uses the list to highlight important architectural, cultural...
Jan Carew, Activist, Author, Scholar, Teacher, Passes at 92
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, the enslaver of the African and the exploiter of peoples of a rainbow array of races, colors, creeds, we do...
Still Thinking Independence
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 years after Britain suspended the island’s constitution and set up a one-man commission to probe the government of then premier...
iZania: Connecting the people of Africa via the Internet
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 and other professionals should do both, he says. “The options are not either/or,” says Madison. “We may affect an online introduction,...
Kisha Holt: Black Female Entrepreneur Fills Void in Children's Marketplace
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 else available back then--and lightly shade in the image making the child African American. 30 years later while it's easier...
