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Migrants’ Stories: Why They Flee
I have spent much of the last decade conducting on-the-ground fieldwork in this region, and along the migration paths through Mexico, seeking answers to this question. The region’s extreme poverty and violent impunity…
Read MoreMichelle Obama Is a Surprise Textbook Example of How Women Thrive and Grow
Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” can be read in many ways: as a political memoir, as a story of being black and aspiring in America or as a Cinderella story that transports…
Read MoreNipsey Hussle, Gun Violence and the Big Business of Weapons
Guns contributed more than $52 billion to the U.S. economy and generated over $6.8 billion in federal and state taxes in 2018…
Read MoreHISD’s Contentious Superintendent Search Comes to a Screeching Halt
In a letter, state-appointed conservator, Doris Delaney stated that she was using the legal authority bestowed upon her to suspend the search…
Read MoreIRS Explain Disproportionate Targeting of Minorities for Tax Audits
“To take such a large portion of limited IRS resources and to focus them so intensely on rural communities in Alabama and the Southeast…
Read MoreOffshore Exploration Promises Jobs, Affordable Energy
Communities don’t have to be located in energy-producing regions to benefit from the U.S. energy revolution. But it helps. That’s why coastal states have so much to gain…
Read MoreTwo Million in Funding Given to Black-Owned Businesses — Thanks to This Organization!
Nationwide — Invest in an entrepreneur of color and the rest of the dominoes will fall. Charlotte’s Urban Advisors, an impact investment consulting firm, recently announced the launch of a fund that replicates this idea. The UP Community Fund backs minority-owned businesses
Read MoreA New Home for the Young, Gifted and Black in Brooklyn NYC
Although Manhattan has been a mecca for young Black artists cultivating their craft since the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, there came a time for the starved…
Read MoreThe Fight for Equal Pay, Gender Parity Heats Up
Black women sit at the nexus of race and gender and are buffeted by the twin spectres of these “isms”, and struggle upstream against a current of prejudice.
Read MoreJ.C. Smith University SGA President Committed to Student Civic Engagement – GDN Exclusive “A Call to Colors” Vol. II Part XI
when in comes to student civic engagement, particularly as it comes to non-partisan voter registration, education and mobilization come election time, J.C. Smith University SGA President Jameia Booker has been both focused and committed.
Read MoreAfter 51 Years, Fair Housing Still an Unfinished Journey
“According to the National Fair Housing Alliance, individuals filed 28,843 housing discrimination complaints in 2017,” said Waters. “Under the Trump Administration, fair housing protections are under attack
Read MoreAfrican Americans Audited by IRS More Than Any Other Group
More than a third of its Black residents live below the poverty line and the median yearly household income is $26,000, somehow are on the IRS’ radar to audit…
Read MoreHow Evil Are We Becoming?
Is this an indictment on our current moral ground? Are we indeed becoming that evil? When you casually elect to kill your own, Armageddon has truly arrived.
Read MoreNew Book, “Fleshly Date or Godly Mate,” Impacts the Lives of Single Women
Esteemed African-American author, Mary Lee Vance who is also a relationship coach and motivational speaker, has written a transformational book in regards to dating.
Read MoreInglewood “Wind of Change”: Good or Bad for Community?
Although cheaper than Hollywood or Koreatown, for the community of Inglewood, that already suffers from inequality issues, the price for housing is not affordable.
Read MoreAfrican Culture Comes Alive in ‘The Burial of Kojo’ by Blitz the Ambassador
“The Burial of Kojo,” is essentially a human story of courage and survival, a 2019 Pan African Film Festival Official Selection and the winner of the Urban World Film Festival…
Read MoreEducation Department Helps Loan Servicers Instead of Borrowers
A newly-released audit report finds fault with how the Department of Education (Department) is managing both its loan funds and its 15 contract student loan servicers.
Read MoreRodeo Provides Rare Glimpse at African American Cowboys, Cowgirls
The main event – playfully named “The Greatest Show on Dirt” — is the rodeo itself. Thousands of spectators gather to watch black cowboys and cowgirls…
Read MoreBlack Studies Becomes Major Factor in Social Advancement
At the modern HCBU campuses, most have established courses in Black Studies, but few have departments dedicated to the field. Only Howard and Clark Atlanta universities…
Read MoreTrump Calls Mexicans “Animals” Again and White House Advisors Attempt to Justify It
These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws…
Read MoreFrom the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom " />
“On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope”
By DeRay McKesson
From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom
Maxine Waters, “I Have the Gavel & I’m Not Afraid to Use it”
“No, I haven’t forgotten about 45. He’s appointed an Attorney General who thinks he can withhold the Special Counsel’s report from the American people.
Read MoreAnnouncement of New Federal Scholarship for K-12
Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act, individuals, married couples, and businesses can invest their tax dollars in a K-12…
Read MoreStudent Loan Debt Is a Crisis!
The crisis is impacting millions of young people coming out of college, wanting to be fiscally responsible and save, and buy their first home.
Read MoreNYC Firm Touts Bail Reform as Supreme Court Sets Standards
The Supreme Court today sent a very strong message that monetary bail and bail schedules are constitutional if the proper due process procedures…
Read MoreNexstar Sued by Minority-Owned Marshall Broadcasting Group
In addition to explaining how Nexstar undermined MBG, the lawsuit outlines MBG’s efforts to work in good faith with Nexstar to try and resolve…
Read MoreNNPA Names Claudette Perry Executive Administrator
“Claudette Perry brings decades of experience from roles in corporate America, the public sector and government. She has been a member of the NNPA…
Read MoreLori Lights Up Chicago, More Firsts for Black Leadership
To hundreds of her supporters Lightfoot said, ‘You created more than just history. You created a movement for change … our differences are nothing compared to what we can achieve together.
Read MoreLies and Truths About Black Unemployment Under Trump’s Administration
As a result of continued high unemployment in Black communities, several community-based organizations in various cities have been active trying… BlackJobs.com stepped up marketing efforts…
Read MoreChicago’s New Mayor is a Black Woman — For the First Time Ever!
Being Chicago’s mayor is the first time for Lightfoot to hold an elected office. But she already has an extensive experience being a senior equity partner… At the height of the Laquan McDonald scandal, she led the newly established task force…
Read MoreSenate Minority Leader Blue Supports “A Call to Colors” – GDN Exclusive “A Call to Colors” Vol. II Part X
More and more black elected officials are coming out in support of “A Call to Colors,” the Greater Diversity news nonpartisan civic engagement campaign…
Read MoreSpirituality, Activism and Social Transformation
We live in an age where polarization is the norm and demonizing… The Black community in America has not lashed out with retribution. We have maintained a commitment to Dr. King’s principle of nonviolence.
Read MoreStop Invisible Lynchings in America – Bill Pending Making Lynching a Federal Crime
Disproportionately, young African male college students and others are being summarily expelled from college based solely on mere allegations of sexual misconduct…
Read MoreCongressional Freshman Colin Allred: His Own Man
Refusing to expand Medicaid is also the wrong thing to do. It’s just not who we are as people. To me, this is all about values and it should be a value of ours to try and make sure…
Read MoreClyburn and Sanders Introduce Bill to Expand Community Health Centers
If Congress doesn’t act by September 30th, community health centers will lose the federal funding they need to keep their doors open.
Read MoreSpiritually Speaking – “the size of a mustard seed,” a True Indicator of Its Power
We all know people who have heart-wrenching testimony about faith’s manifestation in tremendously dire situations in their lives. When the chips are down and backs are.
Read MoreCOMMENTARY: My Truth – Celebrating Women
You have to seize the moment, every moment! If you want to tell someone you love them, you need to do it. Don’t hesitate and don’t let anyone else make or take away your decision…
Read MoreBennett SGA President Strong on Civic Engagement – GDN Exclusive “A Call to Colors” Vol. II, Part VIII
Say “Bennett Belles,” and those who know their history immediately think about the proud students of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro.
Read MoreThe NNPA Continues Its Series on Missing Black Women and Girls
As Trump cries that a border wall is needed to eliminate an imaginary crisis, organizations like the Black and Missing But Not Forgotten, the Black and Missing Foundation (BAM)…
Read MoreCensus 2020: For All to Count, All Must Be Counted
The census over-counted non-Hispanic Whites in 2000 and 2010. And because the people who are more likely to be missed do not live in the same neighborhoods as those more likely…
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