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Black Health News
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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A pregnant woman's risk of
bacterial vaginosis, the most common type of vaginal infection
and a risk factor for preterm birth, is doubled if she or her
male partner is black. Read more at Reuters.com
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Black Community Issues
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that the transition of the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) rental assistance program from FEMA to HUD will be as seamless as possible for the approximately 30,000 FEMA-assisted families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita currently living in private rental units. HUD also announced it has established a toll free call center number...
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Black Business News
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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Faulk and four other current and former black professional athletes
have pooled their money to buy 18 Burger King restaurants in Norfolk
and Richmond, Va. Read more at boston.com
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U.S. Black News
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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In a city like Newark, where the majority of the population is black
and race issues bubble just below the surface, the decision to place
two white men at the helm of the city’s Police Department could
threaten the good will... Read more at NYTimes.com
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Black Entertainment & Sports News
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
 A collection of black art owned by
Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Los Angeles has been
carted off to be auctioned in New York, infuriating local art
historians who want it to remain in California. Read more at Bloomberg.com
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Black Community Issues
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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The head of the nation’s oldest and largest black fraternity Saturday
called on the black community to ban the N-word from its vocabulary.
The offensive racial epithet should be purged from music lyrics, movie
dialogue, talk radio and playgrounds, said Darryl R. Matthews Sr.,
general president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Read more at Pantagraph.com
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Black Entertainment & Sports News
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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What does it take to get Prince, Talib Kweli, Andre 3000, KRS-One, Jill
Scott, Rhymefest, and the late Gerald Levert on one album? It takes one
man: Cornel West. Read more at boston.com
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U.S. Black News
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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Almost a year ago, in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena, a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. The story that has unfolded since is one of racism and injustice, but also of resistance and solidarity, as people from around the world have joined together with the families of the accused... Read more at ZNet
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Black Commentary and Views
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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Crime rates peaked in 1992 and have dropped sharply since. Even as crime rates fell, however, imprisonment rates remained high and continued their upward march. The result, the current American prison system, is a leviathan unmatched in human history. Read more at BostonReview.com
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Black Education News
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
 The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People and NBC Entertainment today announced the
first recipient of the newly established NAACP/NBC Fellowship in
Screenwriting at UCLA's School
of Theater, Film and
Television.
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