Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912. She was the daughter of James Edward Height, a building contractor, and Fannie Burroughs Height, a nurse. When Dorothy Height was very young, the family moved to Rankin, Pennsylv ...
Posted Wednesday, March 14th 2012 at 12:02PM
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Newsweek.com--In a massacre that expresses the brutality and horror of the entire American war in Afghanistan, an Army staff sergeant walked into a village in rural Kandahar province early Sunday morning and murdered 16 people, nine of them children. ...
Posted Monday, March 12th 2012 at 3:24PM
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SAN FRANCISCO--UC Berkeley on Saturday was once again the crucible of the free speech debate.
The birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s hosted another iconoclast from the era, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose speeches an ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 3:09PM
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Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 12, 1965, New York, N.Y.) American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
Hansberry was interest ...
Posted Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 3:05PM
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CNN--U.S. health officials are warning consumers to stop using some skin bleaching or skin lightening creams because they contain high levels of mercury.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has identified 35 mercury-tainted products sold as s ...
Posted Friday, March 9th 2012 at 12:52PM
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Born August 9, 1884 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Daisy Lampkin became one of the most highly acclaimed African American women of her time. While Lampkin is best known for becoming the first women to be elected to the national board of the NAACP, she spe ...
Posted Friday, March 9th 2012 at 12:39PM
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AdelaideNow.com--A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study has suggested.
Volunteers given the beta-blocker, used to treat chest pains and lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psycholog ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 1:06PM
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Janet Collins (March 7, 1917 in New Orleans, Louisiana – May 28, 2003 in Fort Worth, Texas) was a ballet dancer and choreographer.
Janet Collins was one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. In 1951 she won the Donaldson ...
Posted Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 1:00PM
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From The Huffington Post
March 7, 2012
The recently observed Black History month presents the opportunity for individuals worldwide to focus on the accomplishments and contributions of Black citizens in America. Often, this focus is directed at t ...
Posted Wednesday, March 7th 2012 at 1:23PM
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MARYLAND--An Essex man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday for his role in hanging a raccoon on the porch of an African-American family, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Joshua Wall, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of “conspiracy to ...
Posted Tuesday, March 6th 2012 at 12:02PM
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(Reuters) - Black and Latino students across the United States are far more likely to be suspended than white students - and far less likely to have access to rigorous college-prep courses, according to a sweeping study released on Tuesday by the U.S ...
Posted Tuesday, March 6th 2012 at 11:51AM
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By Joan Walsh
March 3, 2012
One of the burdens of blackness, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, was facing down an omnipresent question from the wider society: ¡°How does it feel to be a problem?¡± I¡¯ve been wondering lately if white people might soo ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 6:05PM
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South African diva Miriam Makeba is well known throughout the world known as the Mama Africa and the Empress of African Song. Born in 1932 in South Afica, she first came to the public's attention as a featured vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in ...
Posted Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 5:49PM
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Oprah Winfrey has landed the first interview with late singer Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, for a special to air March 11 on her OWN cable network.
Winfrey interviewed the 18-year-old (who turns 19 on March 4), as well as her m ...
Posted Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 7:49PM
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Prudence Crandall was born in Rhode Island on 3rd September, 1803. After being educated at a Society of Friends school in Plainfield, Connecticut, Crandall established her own private academy for girls at Canterbury.
The school was a great succes ...
Posted Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 6:53PM
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Born in 1933, Myrlie Evers-Williams was the wife of murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers. While fighting to bring his killer to justice, Evers-Williams also continued her husband's work with her book, For Us, The Living. She also wrote Watch M ...
Posted Friday, March 2nd 2012 at 5:00PM
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Just Because He's Black
A white man asked his black friend, 'Are you voting for Barack Obama just because he's black?'
The black man responded by saying, 'Why not? Hell, in this country men
Are pulled over everyday just cause They're black; ...
Posted Friday, March 2nd 2012 at 4:51PM
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NEW ORLEANS -- While the investigation continues into Thursday's deadly shooting, a Mid-City family is mourning the loss of Justin Sipp, who was shot and killed by police.
"One of them was in college, both working. On their way to work. This is r ...
Posted Friday, March 2nd 2012 at 10:47AM
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Question: If 35,000 people are willing to pay $100 or more to see Mary J. Blige at the Essence Music Festival, how many will show up to hear her for free? Answer: Not as many, but a bunch.
Mary J. Blige and her band perform during a free concert ...
Posted Friday, March 2nd 2012 at 10:44AM
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