Ethnic Media's Collective Message to the White House: Do It Now

Jan 28, 2013

Editor's Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media (http://www.newamericamedia.org), a national association of ethnic media, and was published by more than 50 ethnic media across the country to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform....

Capitol to Add Statue of Rosa Parks

Jan 25, 2013

U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D.-N.Y., announced on Monday during President Barack Obama's and Vice President Joseph Biden's Inaugural Luncheon that a statue of the civil-rights icon Rosa Parks will be added to the National Statuary Hall, where the luncheon...

Newlyweds Searching for Bone Marrow Donor

Jan 24, 2013

OAKLAND, Calif. – Just when things were looking up for journalist Kevin Weston -- he had just been offered a prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University and he and his partner, Lateefah Simon, had less than a year earlier...

FCC Chairman’s Legacy: Ignoring Diversity

Jan 24, 2013

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to allow greater media consolidation in local markets could wipe out many of the remaining TV station owners of color left in the country.According to the latest data, people of color own just...

On MLK Day, Blacks Concerned About Obama's Agenda

Jan 20, 2013

President Barack Obama is set to use the Bibles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Lincoln for his second swearing in January 21, no doubt symbolizing his pride as the nation’s first Black president.The symbolic move also aligns...

Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

Jan 20, 2013

The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference -- see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave-patrol militias in the southern states. That was necessary to...

Black Descendants Sue for Control of 1870’s Cemetery

Jan 17, 2013

Former residents of Revilletown, Louisiana —an African-American community torn down 25 years ago in Iberville Parish — are trying to preserve a cemetery founded by ancestors there in 1874.The cemetery, started by ex-slaves, is now within the grounds of a...

Will Obama's Plan Affect Urban Gun Violence?

Jan 17, 2013

With family members of some of the children who died in the Newtown, Conn., shooting in the audience, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled his second-term plans (pdf) to implement new gun-control measures. Among the proposals mentioned: strengthening background checks to...

U.S. Settlement on Massive Oil Spill to Help Restore Gulf Coast

Jan 16, 2013

NEW ORLEANS--The Department of Justice reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Transocean for its role in oil giant BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, which polluted the Gulf of Mexico with upwards of 4.9 million barrels of petroleum in 2010.“What’s important...