One of the most insidious forms of racial discrimination and injustice is the growing manifestation known as racially motivated “economic segregation.” Across the United States during the eight years of the Bush administration between 2001 and 2008, banking and mortgage companies were systematically deregulated. ...

When I was in the process of reading and writing about Nielsen and the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s report on African-American buying power for this week’s Black newspapers, I was reminded of how many top companies continue to take advantage of Black consumers while providing little, if anything, in return. ...

Last week, we learned that African American unemployment rates stayed level last month, with an absurdly high official unemployment rate of 14.1 percent. Unemployment rates for African American men fell, while those for African American women rose. These rates are way too high and understate the extent of pain that exists in the African American community. ...

One of the main themes in the political conventions was centered on how hard it was for the speakers’ families, their parents and grandparents, and how they struggled to make it. ...

Linda Pierce, like us fellow Black Baby Boomers, was born into this world where the majority race treated her as a second class "citizen". She had to sit in the back of the bus, upstairs in the movies, drink from the colored water fountain, buy shoes and clothes without trying them on and attend the Negro schools. Her race was referred to as colored, Negro, Black and then African-American. Linda rejected th ...

New Hanover County Bowens Chapel AME Zion Church, 5826 Carolina Beach Road, will celebrate their 122nd church Anniversary on Sunday, September 16th at 3:00 p.m. Dinner will be served at 2:00 p.m. following the morning service. The guest speaker will be Reverend John H. Brown of New Hope Freewill Baptist Church. Central Missionary Baptist Church. 702 Red Cross Street, will hold their 3rd Pastoral anniversary ...

GE Retirees Association will meet on Thursday, September 20th at 12:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 South College Road. The speaker will be Linda Pearce ,director of Elderhaus. For more information or to RSVP call 910-799-5284. Sheriff McMahon has set up NHC’s seventh Citizens Academy. The next Citizens Academy will run from September 18, 2012 through November ...

Samuel Nixon, Dorothy Armstrong, Jessie Spicer Jr, Marian E. Walker, Celeste Robinson, Nolan Young, Hosea Richardson ...

Dorothy Mae Rouse Sidbury, Joseph Shaw, Jr., , Callie Bell Moore, Annie Mae Midgett, Elsie Marie Frink Siler, Quince Leon Moore, Huey James Boykin, Bertlene Wright Dixon, Nolan Young ...

The 2012 political season is in full throttle toward the November 6h national elections. The Democrats and the Republicans have determined their respective national standard bearers and delineated their issue platforms and public policy agenda and priorities. ...