African-American News

The first audit of a Portland program designed to hire more minorities and women for public construction projects shows businesses owned by white men snagged 51 percent of the money.

Ethiopian Jews are reported to face widespread discrimination in jobs, housing and education in Israel.

NAZARETH, Israel // Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies.

The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given by injection every three months, is considered by many doctors as a birth control method of last resort because of problems treating its side effects.

However, according to a report published last week, use of the contraceptive by Israeli doctors has risen threefold over the past few years. Figures show that 57 per cent of Depo Provera users in Israel are Ethiopian, even though the community accounts for less than two per cent of the total population.

Now that the holidays are over we have officially entered award season. What sets the NAACP Image awards apart is that its express purpose is to celebrate the work of bodies of color.

The NAACP Image Awards homepage states:

The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavours.

Therefore the nomination of Anderson Cooper while ignoring so many good anchors of color is highly problematic to say the least.

Three fired employees are suing US Airways, alleging the airline operated a racially hostile workplace in Philadelphia and fired black employees without grounds.

The use of the word 'negro' on the 2010 census form is drawing ire from many people.

Thousands of mourners filled Riverside Church on Wednesday for the funeral of Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before becoming a power broker and media mogul.

Each year in February, Tavis Smiley produced the negro super bowl State otherwise known as the Black Union. Its express purpose was to garner mainstream attention to Black issues that normally get ignored by politicians and in the mainstream press. Each year it was broadcast on C-Span for free and many tuned in to watch the Black intelligentsia attempt to out do each other with witty repartee.

Despite being concerned with the issues of Blacks, the exclusion of the common person means that ideas presented were certainly class based. I would also like to point out that more often than not, our member of the GLBT community were excluded from participation, leading one to believe that they had cashed in their Black like me card because of their sexuality or gender identity. The panels were also unevenly divided by gender, with men openly engaging in sexism, to blame Black women for many of the current issues in the Black community.

A selection committee has named four honorees to be recognized at the annual Martin Luther King Jr.

Princeton University scholar Cornel West will deliver the keynote address marking the 81st birthday of the Rev.

Martin Lawrence is returning to TV, executive-producing an African-American comedy for cable network TV One.

As 2009 ended with Black unemployment rates at 15.6 percent - more than twice the rate of a decade ago , a dramatic five points more than a year ago, and twice the White unemployment rate - civil rights leaders are calling on President Obama to pointedly use his 'bully pulpit' on behalf of African-Americans. 'I think there's a need for an ...

Study: African-Americans Are Twice as Likely to Be Caregivers to Older Loved Ones by Pharoh Martin NNPA National Correspondent Originally posted 1/5/2010 The study, published by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, found that a significant majority of the nation's 65.7 million caregivers are working women and that African-Americans are ...

A former Richmond city councilman who says his ancestors include Africans buried in a former slave cemetery is asking that the state test part of a university parking lot to determine whether the paved area overlaps with the burial site.

Community members will get one last chance to view the city's 2010 Rose Float as it takes its final curtain-call today, officials said.

Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams has a message to the LGBT community as it fights to win marriage rights: in order to reach African Americans, they need to hear from and see out black people.

Inherited genetic variations could explain why blacks develop type 2 diabetes at a higher rate than whites, new research suggests.

About half of Americans with major depression go untreated, and only 21 percent receive treatment consistent with accepted guidelines, a new study says.

The Auburn/Cayuga branch of the NAACP next month will honor five Auburn residents who have put into practice the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.

In yet another dispatch from our post racial world, someone decided that it was okay to hang a doll with Obama's name on it.

The world is so over race that Obama has received more death threats than any other president. His administration has not been perfect but he certainly did not lie the country into a war, while building up a crippling debt. This hanging was not a political protest, it was an act of racist hatred.

Of course there are those that still refuse to acknowledge this:

I don’t think the President should be hung in effigy no matter who he is, I don’t think the President should be besmirched or ridiculed in a public way at all. Criticize his policies? Sure, but ridicule the man himself, no. It seems that only applies to this president though. Unlike many instances of Bush bashing and public ridicule that went down in the annals of free speech or art or something like that. Double standard? Of course.

Black artists are invited to participate in 'The Dream' art and photography show Jan.