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Autocrats and Authoritarianism: New Research Explores Why People Elect Leaders Who Restrict Freedom
“Why do free people willingly choose autocratic leaders who will restrict their liberty?” The research also looks to provide a clearer definition of the abilities, values and personality traits that describe those leaders.
Read MoreAmericans Distrusted US Democracy Long Before Russia Problem
I am part of a team of scholars from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that studies American popular support for democracy over time. skepticism about U.S. democracy…
Read More‘The Pressure Is Working’: Watchdogs Welcome FCC’s ‘Serious Concerns’ With Sinclair-Tribune Merger
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s remarks on Monday that he has “serious concerns” about right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group’s proposed $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media.
Read MoreCalifornia Prosecutor Michael Selyem Says He’s Surprised “Ghetto” Maxine Waters Hasn’t Been Shot
Michael Selyem, a in San Bernardino County, California was suspended after some of his hate-filled, racist social media posts were made public. Some of the Selyem’s post targeted Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Read MoreGAO Report Finds Federal Agencies Spend Very Little of their Advertising Budgets with Black-owned Firms
While non-minority-owned businesses continue to rake in billions of dollars in federal advertising money, Hispanic-owned businesses received just $192 million over five years—or about $38.4 million per year.
Read MoreTuskegee University’s Dynamic Pitcher-Catcher Duo Participate in MLB’s All-Star Futures Game
Christian Marshall (left) and Elgin Woodside are baseball teammates at Tuskegee University. Marshall and Woodside participated in the 2018 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.
Read MoreRev. Jesse Jackson and Commissioner Rodney Ellis Address Major Social Justice Issues in Harris County and Across the Nation
Several community leaders, ministers, and community organizations, such as FIEL Houston, a group focused on the needs of families and education, the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and others were part of the gathering.
Read MoreSupreme Court Polarization Is Not Inevitable — Just Look at Europe
A politically polarizing court is not inevitable. In some European countries, the judicial appointment process is actually designed to ensure the court’s ideological balance, and justices work together to render consensus-based decisions.
Read MoreOP-ED: We Must Support the Black Press and Roland Martin’s New Daily Digital Show
Martin has financing from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and is hoping for funding from the folks who say they miss unfiltered news.
Read MoreBlack Publishers Come Together in Norfolk to Challenge Fake News
Examining the critical role of Black media, alongside the new age of technology, Deborah Gray-Young, placed emphasis on millennials… Our struggles and our truths have been at the forefront of battling fake news throughout history.
Read MoreNC NAACP Blasts GOP Legislature’s Rejection of Black Superior Court Pick
Former Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety Bryan Beatty, an African-American, was the only one of three candidates put before state lawmakers for their consideration that they rejected.
Read MoreNorth Carolina Could Boost Voter Turnout by More than 225,000, The Problem of Low Voter Participation
In November, North Carolinians will decide via a ballot measure whether the state will require voter ID for future elections, only two years after the state’s old voter ID law was struck down by a federal court for targeting African Americans.
Read More‘Ready to Fight Back’: Progressives Gear Up to Reject Extremist SCOTUS Pick
All those on the list of possible choices, says Sen. Elizabeth Warren, have “shown their willingness to side with the wealthy and powerful over the rights of women, workers, voters, and minorities.”
Read MoreFayetteville State University National Alumni President Supports “A Call to Colors” – GDN Exclusive Part XIV
Vote for Your Old White & Blue! As the days and weeks go by, anticipation grows as to how voters will respond this November when the midterms arrive. On the campuses of historically black colleges and universities, that question
Read MoreWe Must Reform School Discipline Policies for the Safety of Our Children
Teachers apparently agree. In anonymous surveys, they describe how badly school safety has deteriorated. As one stated, “We have fights here almost every day.
Read MoreNAACP Sees Continued Rise in Hate Crimes, Legacy of Trump’s Racism
According to new data “hate crime totals for the 10 largest cities rose for four straight years to the highest level in a decade.” The NAACP believes there is a direct relationship between the rise in hate crimes exemplified by the continual #LivingWhileBlack incidents…
Read MoreA Letter from America’s Children – Unrelenting Wickedness That We, Your Children, Live With Every Day
Ron Harris, an adjunct professor at Howard University, says that American children struggling with poverty, violence and homelessness, deserve media coverage, too.
Read MoreOn Fourth of July, Statue of Liberty Protesters Declare: “Abolish ICE”
“ICE has proved to be a threat to our liberty and way of life, and should be abolished,” said Leon Kirschner, Rise and Resist member. They go after the most vulnerable among us, acting without due process to detain people.
Read MoreWhat the Pledge Means – Our Republic Rejects Autocratic Political Leadership and Authoritarianism
It sees them as a threat to our democracy, and depends upon a system of elections in which ballots are counted fairly and citizens have equal voting rights.
Read MoreRescinding Civil Rights Guidance Preventing Discrimination in Housing, Education, Immigration, and Criminal Justice
Our chief law enforcement officer is dismantling structures that prevent racial discrimination in education, in housing, and in ensuring fair treatment of juveniles in our criminal justice system.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Only Sees Religious Bigotry When It Wants To
The Supreme Court took dramatically different approaches to a basic constitutional question: When does anti-religious hostility by government officials violate the religious liberty guarantees of the First Amendment?
Read MoreWhy Trump’s Proposal to Merge the Departments of Labor and Education Should Fail
Most people go to school with the expectation that it will lead to a job. If this is the case, then it makes no sense for the federal government to have separate departments for schools and jobs.
Read MoreHip-hop Legend Chuck D Praises NNPA’s Black Voter Drive; Criticizes Mainstream Media’s Coverage of XXXTentacion
Public Enemy founder and Hip-hop legend Chuck D says that the Black Press must get ahead of the curve and continue its global outreach efforts. Chuck D’s new book is titled, “Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History.”
Read MoreWhistleblower Leaks Video From Detention Facility Where Children Were Threatened Against Speaking to Press
Footage, audio, and photos from inside a children’s detention center in New York show a child crying and asking to speak with her mother and an employee ominously warning children that speaking to the press could endanger their immigration case.
Read More‘A Dark Day for America’: With Gorsuch Casting Decisive Vote, Supreme Court Upholds Trump Muslim Ban
The effort to end the Muslim Ban is far from over. We will do everything in our power to organize our community and collaborate with other communities to ensure that Trump’s shameful policy is repealed by Congress.
Read MoreFrom #OccupyICE Encampments to the Campaign Trail, Call Grows to Abolish ‘Unaccountable and Inhumane’ Agency
As Common Dreams reported on Monday, Pocan introduced legislation to abolish ICE, accusing the agency of “tearing apart families and ripping at the moral fabric of our nation.”
Read MoreBipartisan Ethics and Elections Board Amendment Approved by N.C. House
State constitutional amendment establishing a Bipartisan State Board of Ethics and Elections Enforcement passed the North Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Read MoreVideo: Cummings Blasts Trump Separation Policies, “We will not keep kids in child internment camps.”
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in separations of undocumented families…
Read MoreJohn Lewis Decries ‘Unbelievable, Immoral’ Family Separations on Border
Atlanta Congressman John Lewis is ramping up pressure on the Trump administration for its latest actions on the Southern border, assailing its new zero tolerance policy as “unbelievable” and “immoral.”
Read MoreTrump Admits That He’s Responsible – “You have to take the children away…”
After weeks of evasions and outright lies aimed at avoiding responsibility for the torture he has inflicted upon immigrant families, President Donald Trump finally admitted in an off-the-rails speech…
Read MoreHow to Heal African-Americans’ Traumatic History
Jim Crow was grounded in the lie of Black inferiority. Dismantling the impacts of that lie on individuals and communities has been an ongoing effort of members of the Association of Black Psychologists…
Read MoreJuneteenth – Freedom Denied to Thousands of Blacks Unable to Make Bail
For hundreds of thousands of African-Americans stuck in pretrial detention – accused but not convicted of a crime, and unable to leave because of bail – that promise remains unfulfilled.
Read MoreJuneteenth: Charleston City Council to Consider Apology for Slave Trade
A mile from where ships dropped shackled Africans off by the thousands and inside a city hall built by forced labor, council members gathered Tuesday to finally apologize for Charleston’s role in the slave trade.
Read MoreSaint Augustine’s University National Alumni President Supports “A Call to Colors” GDN Exclusive XIII
“I think it’s something that’s definitely needed and a significant issue because we need to get [public] officials in there who are going to support education, and bring about a more ethical government,” Dr. Larkins told GDN…
Read MoreLivingstone National Alumni President Supports “A Call to Colors” GDN Exclusive Part XII
The really strong push under this administration to suppress voter registration, and particularly at HBCU schools in North Carolina are getting ready to put this voter ID referendum on the ballot…
Read MoreNot Just a Place to Live: From Homelessness to Citizenship
After an honorable discharge, he bounced from one job to another, drank too much, became estranged from his family and finally ended up homeless. A New Haven mental health outreach team found him one morning sleeping under the bridge.
Read MoreTrumps New Friend Is Boosting His Confidence – That Might Not Be a Good Thing
I’ve found when studying the personal side of foreign policy, Trump may believe that he now has special insight into Kim. And that means the dynamics of U.S. policymaking toward North Korea have changed. Having met Kim, the president will be even less likely to listen to experts…
Read MoreCalifornia’s Jungle Primary Sets up Polarized Governor’s Race for November
They sent Democratic Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom as the heavy favorite into a November contest against Republican businessman John Cox. With the liberal Newsom positioning himself as a Bay Area Bernie Sanders
Read MoreCan Florida Democrats Count on the So-Called ‘Black Vote’ in 2018?
Florida’s midterm Senate election is a race to watch this November – and not just because it will be a tight match pitting a sitting governor, Republican Rick Scott, against a sitting senator, Democrat Bill Nelson.
Read MoreLivingstone College’s Dr. Jenkins Supports “A Call to Colors” Part XI
He has been president of Livingstone College since 2007, the twelfth in its distinguished history. Located in the City of Salisbury, the private historically-black college prides itself on offering the best academic instruction to its 1,150 enrolled students.
Read MoreCivil Rights Leaders to Hold Event to Urge Opposition to Trump Nominee Farr
Farr, Trump’s controversial pick to be the next federal judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina, has come under fire for his decades-long record of methodically working to weaken civil rights protections, erode anti-discrimination protections…
Read MoreHealth, Diversity and Inclusion Leader Sheila Thorne Receives IBPOEW’s Civil Liberties 2018 Community Service Award
Her deep understanding of the challenges and roots of injustice and the connections between individual health outcomes and social determinants has led to collaborative partnerships…
Read MoreOverdue Vote on ERA, Momentum Surges for One of These 13 States to Ratify Amendment
Following Illinois’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, women’s rights advocates turned their attention to the 13 states that have yet to pass the amendment…
Read MoreWhen Will Google Defend Democracy?
Think about it: When you need to fact-check something or learn more about a topic, what do you do? You Google it. This fact is supported by a recent international survey that found that 74 percent of participants reported using search engines…
Read MoreA ‘Lie to the American People’ – Despite Denials, Lawyer Admits Trump Dictated Son’s Misleading Statement
Trump Jr. certainly did not inform the committee that his father had dictated the statement. In fact, he made it seem as if Trump was marginally involved, if at all.
Read MoreGina Pettis Dean Lobbies the Divine Nine for “A Call to Colors” GDN Exclusive Part X
There is no doubt in her mind that “A Call to Colors,” the Greater Diversity News voter registration campaign for historically black colleges and universities should be embraced and adopted by The Divine Nine.
Read MoreDr. Everett Ward, President of Saint Augustine’s University Supports “A Call to Colors” Campaign – GDN Exclusive: Part IX
There is no question in his mind of the value – indeed the necessity – of Greater Diversity News’ HBCU voter registration campaign, “A Call to Colors.”
As the saying goes, “To whom much is given, much is required.”
It Takes A Village: Raising the Next Generation of STEAM Professionals
Here in the U.S. and around the world, women are severely underrepresented in STEAM fields—career fields that are expected to grow more than 9 million jobs by 2022.
Read MoreBlack Women Make History Nationwide with Runs for Political Office
“A lot is happening in the world of women,” Marshall said. “Black women, all over, are capitalizing on their strengths, including London Breed, who will make an excellent mayor.”
Read MoreNFL Tells Players Patriotism Is More Important Than Protest
The recent decision by the NFL regarding player protests and the national anthem has yet again exposed the fraught relationship between African-Americans and patriotism.
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