Black Politics on the Web

Documentary Covers Astonishing KKK Rally in Memphis

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:13:36 +0000

In February, the Memphis city council decided to rename Confederate parks in the city in an effort to right some wrongs of a racist past that plagued the lives of African-Americans. That move sparked backlash from a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, whcih decided to rally against the name change because they felt [...]

Blacks still majority of the wrongfully convicted

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:07:34 +0000

When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for the murder of a security guard in the spring of 1974, Austin didn’t even match the police sketch. The wanted suspect was less 6 feet tall and Austin was the size of a small forward in the NBA. The only other evidence linking him [...]

Racism In America: Racism Is A Disease That Needs To Be Cured

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:05:11 +0000

Racism — racism is a thing of the past, right? In truth, racism is an issue that continues to plague our country — despite the fact that this is 2013, and the first initial push for equality took place in the 1960?s. While the nation echoes, “all men are created equal,” in every corner of [...]

Rev. Al Sharpton: The State of Equality and Justice in America: “We are Dangerously Close to Regressing”

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:51:32 +0000

Rev. Al Sharpton - This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom”. It was there, at one of the largest rallies for human rights, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. On August 28, 1963, Dr. King and all those [...]

Rep. Marc Veasey, Congressional Black Caucus ask Rick Perry to preserve African American districts

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:06:45 +0000

As the federal courts try to sort out to the mess that is Texas congressional redistricting, members of the Congressional Black Caucus led by Texas Rep. Marc Veasey are putting pressure on Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Republican-dominated Legislature to protect the state’s four African American lawmakers. fighting for fair representation of black officials [...]

UNCF Student Leadership Conference Preps Students to Diversify Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Services Fields

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:01:40 +0000

For Yauntilaa Lancaster, becoming a teacher will represent a crucial early step in a career she hopes will culminate with her establishing and running a public charter school. This summer, the south Bronx native who is a rising senior at Spelman College, will intern at the Building Excellent Schools organization in Boston, an opportunity she [...]

Civil Rights Firebrand’s Fraud Case in Georgia Now Has Others Treading Softly

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:53:19 +0000

In the state where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and a legacy of lynching still informs politics, it is never easy to suggest that a leader of the civil rights movement might be a thief. That is why Sally Yates, a United States attorney, stepped carefully last week when she brought [...]

Black Caucus Leader: We Disagree With Presidents, Even Obama

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:29:37 +0000

During his time as the first black president in the White House, President Obama has occasionally been criticized by a group he once belonged to as a U.S. senator — the Congressional Black Caucus — for not doing more to ameliorate the difficult lives of many African-Americans. But Rep. Marcia Fudge, an Ohio Democrat who [...]

Black Students Flock to STEM Fields, Yet Business Lobby Pushes for More Temporary Workers

The Admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:15:00 +0000

William Spriggs - Over last weekend, young people watched or read about President Obama speaking at Morehouse College and first lady Michelle Obama addressing the graduates of Bowie State University. Hopefully they were inspired by seeing so many young and gifted people finishing the course they chose to follow. Well, here is a little known [...]

Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations

The Admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:35 +0000

Why do Republicans keep endorsing the most extreme and hyperbolic African-American voices — those intent on comparing blacks who support the Democratic candidates to slaves? That idea, which only a black person could invoke without being castigated for the flagrant racial overtones, is a trope to which an increasingly homogeneous Republican Party seems to subscribe. [...]