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GDN Print Edition 8-20-15
Greater Diversity News (GDN) is a statewide publication with national reach and relevance. We are a chosen news source for underrepresented and underserved communities in North Carolina. GDN and our companion website focuses on issues and opportunities important to Historically Underutilized Businesses
Read MoreEntrepreneurship Through Health and Wellness in the African American Community
Bad knees forced fitness enthusiast Kendra Blackett-Dibinga to quit her passion of running and training. But those same knee troubles ultimately lead her to a business that has not only relieved her pain, but also provided her Washington, D.C. area
Read MoreCivil and Human Rights Coalition Mourns the Loss of Julian Bond
WASHINGTON – Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the passing of longtime civil rights stalwart Julian Bond, a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern
Read MoreRescued Chibok Girls Use GoFundMe.com
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This month, teenagers across the nation prepare to make the transition from high school to college and at least two of the survivors of the Boko Haram mass kidnapping in Chibok, Nigeria last year could be joining
Read MoreMarketing Aggravates Obesity in Black Children
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Today, close to one in four Black children – as young as 2 years old – is obese. And the $161 million spent on advertising unhealthy foods to Black and Latino youth at most recent count is
Read MoreUsing Lawsuits to Hurt Kids
Within the last several years, new educational choice programs have been created by various state legislatures all over America. Yet and still, charter schools continue to grow and have over a million kids on waiting lists. At a time when
Read MoreDebt Can Help or Hurt Wealth Building
Money and credit are two items that affect nearly everyone. We earn, spend and sometimes save money. But it seems nearly inevitable that the need for credit arises and efforts to retire it become debt that can hang around longer
Read MoreMilwaukee’s “Stop and Frisk” Policy Hurting African-Americans’ Relationship With Police
MILWAUKEE — Nate Hamilton sat in his living room, smashed a cigarette into a glass ash tray, and spoke purposefully about his 31-year-old brother, Dontre, who died last year after being shot 14 times by a Milwaukee police officer during
Read MoreSuper PACs Mobilization and AdvanceNC
Educate, Organize, Mobilize – Going forward I will chronicle voter mobilization efforts required to defeat voter suppression in November 2016. Much of my content will not be new but will be presented in the context of a specific plan and the
Read MoreGDN Print Edition 8-13-15
Greater Diversity News (GDN) is a statewide publication with national reach and relevance. We are a chosen news source for underrepresented and underserved communities in North Carolina. GDN and our companion website focuses on issues and opportunities important to Historically Underutilized Businesses
Read MoreBishop T.D. Jakes On The Black Church’s Shifting Stance On Homosexuality
Bishop T.D. Jakes thinks it is “absolutely” possible for the LGBT and black communities to coexist. Jakes, who joined HuffPost Live on Monday, opened up to host Marc Lamont-Hill about his thoughts on the relationship between these communities. “I think
Read MoreHall of Fame Honor for Dorothy R. Leavell
Dorothy R. Leavell is a hands-on publisher and she most certainly is a true crusader for the cause of the Black Press. Locally, the Chicago Crusader is recognized as one of Chicago’s leading institutions and one of its oldest and
Read MoreThe Smart Practices of SmartPractice®
No investors. No venture capitalists. No “Fund Me” campaigns. It was “bootstrapping” with all the money taken from their savings account and money borrowed from the best man at their wedding. They started with little, but have built a massive
Read MoreNew Congressional Caucus Champions HBCUs
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A little help may be on the way for historically Black colleges and universities struggling against falling financial support and an increasingly skeptical public. The Bipartisan Congressional HBCU Caucus was launched last week, with Congressional members Representatives
Read MoreBlack Father of Five Jailed for Child Murder Despite Police Testimony Stating No Eye Witness or Physical Evidence
New York resident & military veteran Nick Hillary (www.truthfornickhillary.com) is an African American father of five children who’s life has been turned upside down for a murder he did not commit. On October 24th, 2011, a 12-year-old boy, Garrett Phillips
Read MoreVoting Rights Threatened as Voting Rights Act Turns 50
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and leaders, union representatives, elected officials, and citizens gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall
Read MoreMassive Voter Mobilization Initiative Emerges
Educate, Organize, Mobilize – In my opinion, the evening of June 11, 2015 was a very eventful evening for advocates of voter rights protection and the opponents of voter suppression. It was the evening that North Carolina’s premier Black Leadership
Read MoreGDN Print Edition 8-6-15
Greater Diversity News (GDN) is a statewide publication with national reach and relevance. We are a chosen news source for underrepresented and underserved communities in North Carolina. GDN and our companion website focuses on issues and opportunities important to Historically Underutilized Businesses
Read MoreLucky No More, Blessed Always
I have to say I’ve been feeling pretty lucky lately and, not necessarily from a financial, physical or even an emotional point of view. When I look at my life from a worldly perspective now, it can sometimes still appear
Read MoreHelping Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers
Care2Caregivers marks its one-year anniversary of providing a lifeline to thousands caring for loved ones with dementia & Alzheimer’s Elvis Gardin likens being a caregiver to a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease to being alone on an island.
Read MoreVoter Suppression Overshadows Voting Rights Act Celebration
Thursday, Aug. 6, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization co-founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will hold a Call to
Read MoreStudy Reveals That Prejudice Causes the Perception of Threat That Can Be Used to Justify Actions That Result from Prejudice
WELLESLEY, Mass. — When people feel or act negatively toward a group, they may explain their feelings or behavior by saying, “I felt threatened.” However, new research reveals how easily people can be conditioned to feel prejudice — and that
Read MoreU.S. Gun Violence: A Human Rights Failure
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human rights, including failing to meet international human rights standards on gun violence; the uneven implementation of controversial Stand Your Ground
Read MoreOur Selma: Attacks on the Voting Rights Act Effective Community Organizing 2016
Recently the New York Times did a definitive expose’ on the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 entitled A Dream Undone. (See link below). The article covered the 50 year history of the Voting Rights Act and the current threat to
Read MoreGDN Print Edition 7-30-15
Greater Diversity News (GDN) is a statewide publication with national reach and relevance. We are a chosen news source for underrepresented and underserved communities in North Carolina. GDN and our companion website focuses on issues and opportunities important to Historically Underutilized Businesses
Read MoreOn 50th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid Still Vital
WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Medicare and Medicaid turn 50 this week, the nation takes a look at the impact of two of the most significant government programs ever launched. Medicare serves roughly 52 million Americans as of 2013, about 10
Read MoreConservative Koch Brothers Making Inroads into Black America
BATON ROUGE, La. (NNPA) – It was a scene that a young, militant Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. could not have envisioned 30 years ago. Last week, at the national convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here, Chavis was
Read MoreTonya Barbee Shares Her Story in “The Little Girl Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain”
BOWIE, MD — A uniquely designed transparent jewel every woman should own in her jewelry box, The Little Girl Inside by Tonya Barbee is a ministry resource tool for women in search for transparency in the human heart. The author shows us
Read MoreThe 2015 National Urban League Conference
“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies.” – Whitney M. Young, National Urban League President, 1961-1971 America faces tremendous
Read MoreDarryl Washington Proves That Growing Up Urban Can Yield Business Success
Growing up in one of D.C.’s toughest neighborhoods, Darryl Washington was stunned to reach the White House. He had traveled a long road from notorious Southeast Washington. As a kid, Darryl thought of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as an address for
Read MoreWhen Being an Immigrant Makes It More, Not Less, Likely to Have a Job
In the United States, black immigrants are more likely to both be in the labor force and working than blacks born in the U.S.—but a college degree erases that difference, according to a surprising new analysis by Vanderbilt Professor of
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Polls, Mobilization and Voter Suppression
Educate, Organize, Mobilize – Over the past few weeks I’ve written about the prospects of a massive voter mobilization effort being essential for a successful November 2016. Among other things I discussed the leadership needed by Black elected officials and the
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