Our Voice, The story of American Struggle, Guest Editorial by U.S. Congressman John Lewis
Next year this nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 2013. ...
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STATE BRIEFS, WEEK OF AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
IF REPUBLICANS WIN NC, SPEAKER PROMISES VOTER I.D. [TAMPA, FLA.] If the GOP wins the governor's race, and holds on to its majority in the NC General Assembly, then voter ID will pass, assured NC House Speaker Thom Tillis during the North Carolina delegation breakfast at the Republi-can National Convention this week. Gov. Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, vetoed the first bill passed by the GOP in the NC General A ...
Read more ›Clyburn says GOP took “blood oath”
The third most powerful African-American in Congress says that in their zeal to stop President Barack Obama’s agenda, congressional Republicans were “disloyal” to the nation. ...
Read more ›49 years later, Blacks still pressing to ‘overcome’
It is called the anthem of the civil rights movement, no doubt sang at every major march and rally during the 1960s- including at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, 49 years ago ...
Read more ›Daniels Lecture Series to begin October 11: Magic Johnson to be Keynote Speaker
The University of North Carolina Wilmington announced last week that local businesswoman Wilma Daniels has made a gift to the university to help fund an initial year of programming for the Wilma Daniels Distinguished Lecture Promoting Diversity & Tolerance. Daniels is a member of the UNCW Board of Trustees. ...
Read more ›OBITUARIES, WEEK OF AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Eliza Louise Wilson Coy, Callie B. Moore, James Horace Jennings, Janice Frink Brown, Edna Loyce Randolph, Edna Pearl Fields-Purcell, Elsie Marie Frink Siler, Qunice Leon Moore, Charles Christopher Mackey, Huey James Boykin ...
Read more ›Percentage of hungry African-Americans remains higher than the nation
Washington, DC, Sept. 5, 2012–New data released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveals that 25.1 percent of African-American households were food insecure in 2011. ...
Read more ›Dalton battles on in his campaign for governor
The polls have not been kind to Walter Dalton, showing North Carolina’s lieutenant governor generally trailing his Republican opponent, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, by as many as 15 points (52-37 percent) in the latest Elon University poll Monday in the race for governor. ...
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