Activist Ida B. Wells honored with Bronzeville Monument

Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was orphaned at 16 after both of her parents and a younger sibling died from a yellow fever epidemic.

US House Rep. enters Whitney Houston, Don Cornelius into Congressional Record

United States House Representative Laura Richardson (D-CA), added a statement Monday into the Congressional Record honoring Whitney Houston and Don Cornelius for their massive contributions to American popular culture. “She will always be remembered as one of the greatest voices who ever graced the Earth,” Richardson stated regarding Houston, who died of presently unknown causes [...]

Union says Teacher Layoffs Discriminate against African-Americans

The Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wednesday alleging that layoffs last summer disproportionately targeted tenured African-American teachers and communities. The complaints states that African-American teachers make up 29 percent of teachers in CPS, but comprised 43 percent of those laid off in 2011, about 1,000 teachers. While [...]

Cheap baby formulas just as healthy as expensive brands says experts

According to Nielsen data, more than $688 million was spent on advertising baby formula and other baby products from September 2010 to August 2011.

Conn. Police charged with targeting Latinos for brutality

A police sergeant and three officers in the Connecticut city of East Haven were arrested on January 25 on federal charges of conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruction of justice. The case is in connection with a campaign of harassment and brutality directed against the town’s growing Latino population. The accused cops were identified as [...]

Alleged Sex Slaving Child Mutilator Worked for CIA

While the US government has a strong foreign policy against dictators, striving to spread democracy throughout the third-world by unilaterally exterminating African soverign leaders without concrete evidence of wrongdoing, such as the gangland murder of Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya for unsubstantiated “crimes against humanity”, reports have surfaced that the man who now stands accused [...]

Capitalism is outdated and crumbling

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.” “We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, [...]

Birthers to haul Pres. Obama into GA Court

Birthers, a rag-tag group of American conservatives who believe President Obama is not an American citizen by birth, have convinced a Georgia state judge to order President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta on allegations that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen and therefore can not become president. It’s one of many [...]

WWII Epic ‘Red Tails’ Opens Nation-wide Jan. 20 (video)

Red Tails, George Lucas’ epic action-drama about the heroic World War II African-American flying aces, Tuskegee Airmen, opens nation-wide January 20 and has stirred a national debate about racism in American cinema. In promoting the film, George Lucas( Star Wars), opened a can of worms when he told The Daily Show that he had difficulty [...]

Democracy Now Televises MLK Speeches on US Foreign Policy and Civil Rights (video)

While broadcast television virtually ignored the federal holiday Martin Luther King Day, choosing to stick with regularly scheduled fare over more somber holiday-themed programs, Democracy Now devoted its entire Monday telecast to the discussion of Dr. King and civil rights issues. “Martin Luther King: In His Own Words” offers a powerful look at the slain [...]

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