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Top news stories personally selected by the publishers for their relevance to the BlackAmerican community.
June 2007 - Posts
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Isaiah Washington Now that the bridges have been burned between Isaiah Washington and his former employer, ABC, the actor has no qualms about voicing his opinion regarding the aftermath of his gay slur drama. Last week, Washington told the Houston Chronicle Read More...
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Recently elected Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has come in for heated criticism, both locally and nationally, for selecting a Korean with limited teaching experience as chancellor of the city's predominantly Black public schools. Fenty has been Read More...
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Tameka Foster takes on the Queen of All Media. Radio Talk: "Wendy Williams is obsessed with me." Essence.com: You aren't just talked about in cyberspace; you're being shouted out on the airwaves as well, especially by shock jock Wendy Williams. Tameka Read More...
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San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds watches the flight of his 750th career home run off Arizona Diamondbacks' Livan Hernandez in the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, June 29, 2007, in San Francisco. The hit puts Bonds within six of breaking Hank Read More...
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President Bush's conservative appointments have tipped the court to the right. Back in 1900, writer Finley Peter Dunne quoted Mr. Dooley, his fictional Irish bartender, as saying, "The Supreme Court follows the election returns." That's certainly the Read More...
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Betty Bayé » View previous columns With the United States at war in the Middle East, journalists often tell us what is being said on "the Arab street." Well, on America's black street, debates over immigration reform are percolating. Surveys say that Read More...
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Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Image: Diego M. Radzinschi/Legal Times By Tony Mauro Legal Times June 28, 2007 In a historic final day of the Supreme Court term Thursday, the justices by a Read More...
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The National Newspaper Publishers Association, representing more than 200 Black Newspaper publishers around the nation, gave new meaning to the so-called “Microsoft Media Skins Challenge” at the corporation’s headquarters in Seattle last week. Amidst Read More...
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A historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates — a woman, a black, an Hispanic and five whites — denounced an hours-old Supreme Court affirmative action ruling Thursday night and said the nation's slow march to racial unity is far Read More...
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Students cannot be assigned to public schools because of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that casts doubt on integration efforts adopted across the country. By a 5-4 vote on the last day of its Read More...
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Classmate in Town Rife With Racial Tension A black teenager who once faced attempted murder and conspiracy charges for beating a white schoolmate amid racial tension at their high school was convicted Thursday of lesser charges. After a prosecutor reduced Read More...
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"They told me I was too young. They told me I didn't have enough money and that I couldn't do this, that I don't have the wisdom, the strength or the experience. They told me I would never come back home." Safe and sound! Standing tall on the tarmac of Read More...
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue its decision Thursday on the school racial balancing case from Seattle. The court heard arguments in December on cases from Seattle and Louisville that could affect hundreds of school districts across the nation. Read More...
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var cnnStoryUrl = 'http://robots.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/teen.sex.case/index.html';var cnnDisplayDomesticCL = 1; var cnnDisplayIntlCL = 1; A judge denied bond Wednesday for a teenager who's serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex Read More...
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Usher is expecting bigger things than a new album — the superstar announced Wednesday that he and fiancee Tameka Foster are expecting their first child together. "We are extremely excited at this point in our lives planning our wedding and the joy that Read More...
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Entertainer and educator Bill Cosby hosted a forum on school violence Wednesday. He spoke to education students at Temple University 's Center City campus. He and professors talked about how violence affects behavior and emotions in children and their Read More...
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A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah — possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday. The mummy Read More...
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Mayor Willie Herenton stepped before television cameras to announce he had made a startling discovery: Rich, white businessmen were plotting to derail his re-election by videotaping him having sex with a strip club waitress. The revelation earlier this Read More...
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Jury selection began on Tuesday in a case against a black high school student accused of beating a white student amid escalating racial tensions at their Louisiana school. None of the several dozen potential jurors, however, was black. Mychale Bell and Read More...
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Rapper 50 Cent refuses to attack his former girlfriend in his music because it would upset his son MARQUISE. The hip-hop star - real name Curtis Jackson - is currently locked in a child support legal battle with Shaniqua Tompkins, the mother of his kid, Read More...
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In this photo provided by the family of Genarlow Wilson he is shown in a portrait at the age of 17. Wilson is serving 10 years without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty of aggravated child molestation for having consensual oral sex Read More...
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The BET Awards are known for show-stopping performances, and they came one after another on Tuesday. It started off with a dream, uniting “ Dreamgirls ” from past and present with a stirring duet between Jennifer Holliday and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson. Read More...
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Editor's note: It has yet to be seen whether the Republican Party's attempts to purge African Americans from the voting rolls in 2004 will rise to become an act that will be long-remembered. Part of the tragedy may well be that it is only within the African Read More...
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The National Center for Black Philanthropy (NCFBP) has announced Wachovia as a principal sponsor of its Sixth National Conference: "Philanthropy and the Covenant with Black America" from June 27 - 29 in the Washington, D.C., area. The conference will Read More...
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A battle over ownership of Michael Jackson memorabilia is headed back to a Nevada courtroom, where the King of Pop is seeking the return of items withheld from an auction of family items. Jackson's sister, singer Janet Jackson, also is seeking the return Read More...
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A federal civil-rights lawsuit over the violent arrest of a young African-American man is drawing new attention to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and his record on police discipline. Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes is suing the city, the chief and several Read More...
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Nicole Richie has won a delay in her driving under the influence case. Superior Court Commissioner Steven K. Lubell on Tuesday set a new date of July 11 at the request of a defense attorney. That means the trial could start on that date or within the Read More...
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As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14 and giving birth Read More...
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On the same day police held sensitivity training for new recruits, a prominent civil rights attorney says police physically abused him and his wife on the street in broad daylight. Brooklyn reporter Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. The left Read More...
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Walt Disney World is stepping up efforts to roust unwanted teens and young adults from its Downtown Disney complex. The company's security guards and off-duty Orange County deputy sheriffs boosted their presence last weekend at the popular shopping and Read More...
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For the first time ever in the South, blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region’s population as a whole — something not yet true of the country overall. The milestone is noted in a new fact book to be released Monday Read More...
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Some presidential candidates play it safe, pander to the party base and try not to anger potential voters. They often win their party’s nomination. Sometimes they win the presidency. Others go out on a limb and say what needs to be said — even though Read More...
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No matter who won on November 5 (Black Issues went to press before the election), the African American community is in dire need of a heavy dose of economic education. We sit on a $340 billion economy, hut fail to flex our economic muscles to generate Read More...
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The number of blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began. Other job prospects are soaring and relatives of potential recruits increasingly are discouraging them from joining the armed services. Read More...
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Barack Obama Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division. “But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to Read More...
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50 Cent The $25,000 a month in child support and household expenses that rapper 50 Cent pays to the mother of his 10-year-old son is not enough, says the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins. The rapper is "worth tens and tens of millions of dollars," said Read More...
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The Rev. Al Sharpton Saturday said the black community should be more forthcoming with information on the cases of two black women, one who vanished without a trace and another found strangled. "There's no way someone on Fulton Street in Brooklyn could Read More...
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Janet Hall was diagnosed with HIV three years ago after contracting the virus from a boyfriend who told her he'd tested negative for it when he left prison. The simple things in life, such as early morning walks, now hold even greater meaning. STEPHEN Read More...
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A black Baptist leader is urging black churches across the United States to set goals for reducing by 25 percent the rate of black divorce, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, murder and HIV infection by 2012, and increasing the adoption of black foster children. Read More...
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It's only music": This is the reply when pastors challenge young people about the messages in modern music. One particular target is gangsta rap, the hard-core edge of the hip-hop genre. This music is filled with lyrics that promote violence, sexual abuse Read More...
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Sixteen years ago, Carolyn J. Hill stumbled into a church just up the street from the crackhouse where she got high and prostituted herself. The congregation embraced her, helped her clean up and taught her about self-worth, she said. "I'm yet standing Read More...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Saturday at a demonstration outside a suburban Chicago gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass to property. The civil rights leader was arrested when he refused to move away from the entrance to Chuck's Read More...
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You’ve seen the promos of Mo’Nique in “Rocky” mode getting ready to host BET Awards ’07. The “Main Event,” as the June 26th ceremony is being dubbed, is set to take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with a star-studded lineup of entertainment. Read More...
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Residents of a public housing complex on Austin's east side where a Hispanic man was beaten to death said Friday officials were sanitizing tragic events that could put the city in a bad light. "They don't want to arouse anything with the African American Read More...
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After 90 days and 19,656 miles, Barrington Irving, touched down today, on a runway just east of the Front Range Airport, around 2:30 p.m. He is the first African-American to fly solo around the globe. (Post / John Prieto) Sandstorms, snowstorms and tropical Read More...
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Looks like Melanie 'Mel B' Brown knew she had a case all along. According to People magazine, a DNA test has confirmed that Eddie Murphy is the father of Spice Girl Melanie Brown's recently born daughter. Murphy, 46, has never publicly acknowledged the Read More...
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South Carolina appears poised to shake up the 2008 presidential race, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Fred Thompson the frontrunners in a new state survey by Mason-Dixon. With strong support from the black community , Illinois Sen. Obama has Read More...
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Eight years after the government reached an agreement with black farmers over decades of discrimination, Democrats say the deal is broken and want to give farmers another chance at compensation. Lawmakers began hearings Thursday on two proposals aimed Read More...
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Two Durham banks, both of which are among the nation's oldest black-owned institutions, are talking about joining forces. M&F Bancorp, the parent of Mechanics and Farmers Bank, and Mutual Community Savings Bank announced after the markets closed Wednesday Read More...
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With just 10 days left in its session, education and civil-rights leaders across the nation are anxiously waiting to see whether a conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court will end voluntary desegregation in America's public schools -- particularly those Read More...
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John Rogers Jr. John W. Rogers Jr. is a patient man. The head of Ariel Capital Management in Chicago and manager of the flagship Ariel Fund ( Charts ), Rogers typically holds a stock for four or five years, an eternity compared with the 14-month holding Read More...
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Nelson Linder, left, president of the Austin branch of the NAACP, speaks at a news conference with Freddie Brown and Ethel Washington, the parents of Kevin Alexander Brown. An officer shot Kevin Brown in the back during a chase outside a nightclub, according Read More...
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Nike has done the Heisman on the Humane Society of the United States by turning down their written request to punt NFL quarterback Michael Vick from its roster of celebrity athletes. Humane Society president and CEO Wayne Pacelle on Tuesday released a Read More...
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AT&T Inc. today announced that 100 Black Men of America, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to the intellectual development of youth and the economic empowerment of the African-American community, has named AT&T as its 2007 Corporation of Read More...
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The sound was never exactly polished, but it had plenty of soul, and the Memphis sound created at Stax Records has found its own special place in the history of American music. Some of pop's most cherished recordings came out of the Stax studio, including Read More...
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The world has witnessed Tiger Woods cut paths for black athletes in golf. The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, soared in tennis with their powerful forehands. And 60 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball. These days in Alaska, Read More...
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Senate Democrats urged the Justice Department on Monday to investigate whether one of its former prosecutors led attempts to suppress Florida voter turnout during the 2004 presidential election. The request by Sens. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts Read More...
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BET is expanding its original programming efforts into late-night with some help from reality-TV producer Endemol USA. The companies are collaborating for the first time on a live weeknight series that blends game show and talk show elements with an interactive Read More...
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A variety of popular rappers have come under attack in Chicago, where a Southside church has erected twenty billboards throughout the city, denouncing rappers they claim "demean women and perpetuate violence." The billboards were placed by the Faith Community Read More...
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When Claude Landry Jr. is asked to describe his dad, the response comes without hesitation. "We've got the best dad in the world," the 19-year-old said. "Ever," added his 15-year-old brother, Christian, as they stood near a basketball court after a hard-fought Read More...
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