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CSU Defends ‘Segregated’ Housing Offer After Conservative Backlash

September 19, 2016 Staff 0

California State University Los Angeles is defending a new special interest housing community for fall 2016 after the conservative press deemed it “segregated housing.” The school ― like several others across the country ― offers […]

President Obama Nominates Muslim-American Attorney for Federal Bench

September 9, 2016 Staff 0

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated a Washington, D.C., attorney for the federal bench. If confirmed, he would be the first Muslim American to serve as a federal judge. Obama nominated Abid Riaz […]

Armed ‘White Lives Matter’ Protesters Gather Outside Houston NAACP Building

August 23, 2016 Staff 0

by Cherise Frazier A group of White Lives Matter protesters gathered in front of the NAACP offices in Houston, Texas on Sunday – some carrying signs, assault rifles, and Confederate flags. NAACP headquarters are located […]

Protestors Want Police Who killed Alton Sterling Arrested

August 17, 2016 Staff 0

PROTESTORS MARCH IN the street following the shooting death of Alton Sterling July 5 in Baton Rouge, La. (The Drum) By Candace J. Semien For NNPA, The Drum BATON ROUGE — Whether it was a […]

Republicans are at Breaking Point with Donald Trump

August 15, 2016 Staff 0

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump. As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states […]

Bennett College President to Step Down

August 11, 2016 Staff 0

by Julie Knight Bennett College and its president are parting ways. The college’s board of trustees issued an announcement Thursday that Rosalind Fuse-Hall, who was named president in the summer of 2013, will step down […]

NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks Arrested After Sit-In with Youth in Congressional Office

August 10, 2016 Staff 0

ROANOKE, Va. – NAACP National President and CEO Cornell William Brooks was charged with trespassing by local police after refusing to leave a Congressman’s district office in southwest Virginia on Monday during a sit-in with […]

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Last Surviving Birmingham Bomber, Denied Parole

August 5, 2016 Staff 0

by CORKY SIEMASZKO An Alabama parole board has denied the last surviving Birmingham church bomber’s first attempt to get out of prison. Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., an 86-year-old Ku Klux Klansman serving a life sentence for […]

Slavery Reparations Sought in First Black Lives Matter Agenda

August 2, 2016 Staff 0

By Eric M. Johnson | SEATTLE A coalition affiliated with the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement called for criminal justice reforms and reparations for slavery in the United States among other demands in its first […]

Marilyn Mosby on Freddie Gray’s case: We Could Try the Cops 100 Times with the Same Result

August 1, 2016 Staff 0

(Andrew Burton/Getty Images) by Victoria Massie (Vox) A year after Freddie Gray, 25, died from a neck injury he incurred while in the custody of Baltimore police officers after an unlawful arrest, prosecutors announced that […]