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Ode To The Black Woman
Ode To The Black Woman[BENEATH THE SPIN]I have to scratch my head when I hear young Black men calling our sister’s bitches and whoes,because Black women are our most precious asset.Sister’s...
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Buery And Farina On De Blasio's Top Team To Work On Schools' Over-crowding
De Blasio with Deputy Mayor Buery[City Hall]Working group will partner with district and charter school communities and non-profits to develop new approaches to sharing space, tackling overcrowding...
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"Kagame Doctrine" The Malignant Cancer Of 20-Year Reign Of Terror
Bill Clinton has been one of Kagame's biggest booster[Africa: Commentary]African leaders have just concluded a mini summit in Luanda, Angola, to discuss the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Mayor De Blasio To Keynote Internet Week
Mayor de Blasio[City Hall]Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver the keynote address during the opening session of Internet Week New York 2014 on Monday, May 19. Mayor de Blasio will present his vision for...
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Book: The Fundraiser’s Guide to Soliciting Gifts
Pearl and Melvin B. ShawPearl D. Shaw and her husband Melvin B. Shaw [Book Review]This Book Is A Roadmap To Successful Fund-raisingJumpstart Your Fundraising.To be the best, learn from the best and in...
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MUSIC: MINTON’S SUPPERCLUB CELEBRATES JAZZ MONTH
Jeff "Tain" Watts Photos: Oliver Link[MUSIC]WITH MINTON'S REDUX AND HARLEM AFTER DARKSPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCESMinton’s Redux & Harlem After Dark Bring Emerging Talent in the Jazz World to the...
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Fred Phelps, Apostle of Hate And Bigotry, Meets His Maker
Fred Phelps[Commentary]Fred Phelps, best known as the Pastor of Westboro Baptist Church, one of the most vehemently anti-gay religious leaders of modern history, died March 19. He spent decades blaming...
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Six Million Americans Have Signed Up for Health Insurance
President Obama Shown with the Pope[The White House]Thursday, while traveling in Italy, President Obama convened a conference call with health care navigators and volunteers helping with enrollment...
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Obama Deals With Putin While "Conservatives" Try To Undermine U.S. President
President Obama [Commentary]Withering Republicans“Wuthering Heights” is the classic 1847 novel written by Emily Bronte under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This masterpiece of British literature – set in...
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EBONY Magazine's Apology for Senior Editor’s Attack On RNC Staffer
Raffi Williams[On Media]Yesterday, a senior editor for EBONY, Jamilah Lemieux, was attacking black conservatives on Twitter. One of our RNC staffers, Deputy Press Secretary Raffi Williams, tried to...
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NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray's Own Personal Health Insurance Story
Chirlane McCray[Health]I was a young, healthy, freelance writer. I was a vegetarian. I was athletic. I took care of myself.But when I developed a serious illness, I learned the hard way how difficult...
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Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador At UN Leads Delegation To Troubled Rwanda's...
Samantha Power[Global: Africa]Release From The White HousePresident Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Rwanda to attend the 20th Commemoration...
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Fear Of Black Pre-Schoolers: Halting The Preschool-To-Prison Pipeline
Tiana Parker, seven, was sent home by Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma: they didn't approve of her locks[Commentary: Pre-school To Prison]Why black children are being funneled into the...
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NYC Chokwe Lumumba Memorial On Saturday
[Chokwe Lumumba Memorial]The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the National Conference of Black Lawyers will host a New York City Memorial Service for Mayor Chokwe Lumumba on Saturday, March 29, 2014...
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"After Midnight" is an Energetic Tour de force
It’s “After Midnight” and the joint is jumping with some of the best African American dancers and singers on the Broadway stage. Formerly the headliners were Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill. Presently...
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Joe Biden: Raising Minimum Wage Will Empower And Feed Millions Of Americans
Vice President Joe BidenLadies and gentlemen, I’m Joe Biden. I’m filling in for President Obama, who is abroad.I want to talk to you today about the minimum wage and the overwhelming need to raise the...
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The World Is Better Because Matt Jones, Freedom Fighter, Lived
Matt Jones[Tribute To Matt Jones]Matt Jones once said: “When I was young, I fought segregation. When I was young, I fought Jim Crow. Who would have thought, I’d still be fighting, 30 or 40 years down...
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Ella Baker Was My Civil Rights Generation's "Fundi"
Ella Baker[Women's History Month Tribute: Ella Baker]This is how Ella Baker put it: Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing...
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Apollo Theater's Tribute To The Great Celia “Azucar” Cruz
Celia “Azucar” Cruz[Women's History Month]I “went home” to the Apollo Theatre, March 22, and for three hours witnessed, in this month of March honoring our women, a musical tribute honoring one of, if...
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Highlights From NY State 2014 Budget Agreement
Governor Cuomo[Budget 2014]The 2014-15 Budget Agreement holds spending growth below two percent for the fourth consecutive year, continuing a record of fiscal discipline that has reversed decades of...
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