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SBA and Diamond Ventures, LLC Ordered to Mediate a Settlement
"It is time to get serious... it is time to get this resolved," said Judge Gladys Kessler at the status hearing of the landmark...
NAACP LDF Report Highlights Impact of Felon Disfranchisement Laws
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) released Free the Vote: Unlocking Democracy in the Cells and on the Streets, a report...
Mauritania: An African state where Blacks are “second class citizens”
Students have been up in arms, since March 25, against the Arabization of Mauritania, as expressed by members of the government on March 1,...
Arabization and a history of Black-African marginalization in Mauritania
Overtaken by an overpowering sense of relentless cultural oppression and marginalization, Black-Mauritanians continue to express their resentment after two recent speeches, by the Prime...
Drug War Racism Ravishes America
A minor change in court processing procedures in Philadelphia, streamlining the handling of arrests for pot possession, sparked a major controversy recently that totally...
U.S.: Newsrooms Continue to Cut Black Journalists From Their Ranks
Newsrooms cut black journalists and supervisors at a higher rate than ever before in 2009 while the minority communities they cover grow larger. As...
Mauritania: “Arabization has nothing to do with Islam”
The Mauritanian government, Sunday, spoke out on the burning issue of Arabization, which was raised by the Prime Minister and Minister of Youth and...
Mauritania: Arabization hateful of African culture?
Tensions have risen to a fever pitch on the campus of the University of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, since the month of March. Arabization...
South Africa: British minining investments threat over racial tensions
South Africa could lose out in mining investments if the simmering racial tensions between its white and black populations spiral out of control, industrial...
New Survey of Corporate Hiring: Black and Latino Executives Falling Further Behind
Wesley, Brown & Bartle (WB&B), a four-decade-old national executive search firm with the highest record of management diversity in corporate America, announces survey results...
White Material: A tale of White superiority
A white woman refuses to forgo her last coffee harvest in an African country during a civil war. Her desire takes precedence over the...
Vogue Paris versus Italian Vogue: Messages for Black people
Rose Cordero has graced the cover of Vogue Paris. This is the first time in eight years, after the Ethiopian Liya Kedebe, that a...
CAIR Troubled by Racist Announcement at NJ Wal-Mart
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today voiced concern over a recent incident at a southern New Jersey Wal-Mart in which an unknown person...
From South Africa to The United States: Freedom is indivisible
It is not possible to have liberty for some and not for others in the same country. Whilst blacks were being oppressed by...
Will Italy legalise xenophobic and anti-African laws?
Point-based residence permits, buses for immigrants, removal of public benches to prevent immigrants from gathering… These are some of the new proposals from the...
Some see Obama blotting-out Blacks
Should the first black President of the United States publicly push a “Black Agenda” specifically addressing issues historically sought by the community whose 96%...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Argues Chicago Firefighter Discrimination Case Before Supreme Court
John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) presented oral argument today before the United States Supreme...
Abu-Jamal case generates support worldwide
What makes people from Brazil to Berlin and beyond rally in support of a new trial for America’s most recognized death row inmate –...
African Immigrants in Italy: A shadow of ethnic cleansing?
To give a dog a bad name in order to hang it has become synonymous to the plight of African immigrants in Italy. The...
International Criminal Court: Justice or racial double standards?
The indictment by the International Criminal Court of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by government forces...
Nigeria: President’s health and fears of widening north-south divide
Recent reports on the health situation of Nigerian president Mr. Umaru Yar'Adua pose a problem for Nigeria's constitution, as a case of a sudden...
Racist image tops Google search results for Michelle Obama
The top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine is a racist caricature that depicted her with the face...
President Obama May Improve the Image of African Americans, but Being Black or Brown in America is Still Tough for Kids
The media is touting new films about image and the African American experience -- Chris Rock's "Good Hair," Oprah's "Precious," CNN's Black in America,...
Vogue France racist or artistic?
The latest issue of the French edition of Vogue magazine, "Special top-model," is the cause of a thunderous hue and cry over a racial...
Black politicians in Russia compete against a vile racist backdrop
The international community recently gave a particular attention to the political ambitions of a Black Russian of Guinea-Bissauan descent. Joaquim Crima ran for mayor...
Comment on Racism in Anti-Obama Protests
As a people, a nation or a community, it is appropriate to celebrate who are and inappropriate to condemn others for who they are....
‘Pretty for a Black Girl! Compliment or Insult?’
Who sets the standard for beauty? Why is it that black women feel inferior to white women, and darker-skinned black women feel inferior to...
Microsoft conniving with Poland to promote racism?
A Blackman mysteriously turns into a Whiteman. What was supposed to be a pictorial prowess ended up as a clumsy patchwork by Microsoft on...
After London and Paris, Venus regains her dignity, but how much?
She was called The Hottentot Venus, for her civil status she was Saartjie (Sara) Baartman. Sent back to South Africa, her homeland, to be...
Man Who Was Waterboarded, Suffocated by Burge Torture Ring To Seek New Trial
Twenty-three years to the day that he was savagely tortured during a three-day interrogation administered by underlings of indicted former Chicago Police Commander Jon...