Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” turns 20
Twenty years ago, Spike Lee made movie history. ...
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New world’s ‘richest Black woman’
Talk show maven, Oprah Winfrey, who long reigned supreme as the world's richest black woman, has been kicked down a notch by new kid on the block, Folorunsho Alakija, ...
Read more ›Justice Timmons-Goodson stepping down
The first African-American woman ever to serve on North Carolina’s highest court will be stepping down shortly ...
Read more ›NC NAACP blasts “racist” actions of prosecutor and Wilmington 10 prosecutor sought KKK jury
In an effort to define both the moral and legal arguments for Gov. Beverly Perdue to grant pardons of innocence to the Wilmington Ten, the NC NAACP Tuesday focused on the now infamous, and many say “illegal” behavior of prosecutor James “Jay” Stroud during the trials forty years ago. ...
Read more ›Hall’s letter confirms Wilmington Ten frame-up
His name was Allen Hall. In 1972, Hall was the chief witness for the prosecution in the conspiracy trials against the Wilmington Ten. ...
Read more ›The People’s Clinic: Maintaining dignity and caring for your family: What you need to know about end of life care
Would you choose to be kept alive artificially, or would you prefer to die with dignity? ...
Read more ›GOP’S ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ attack on Susan Rice
The newly-elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, says politically-inspired charges that United Nations Ambassador Susan E. Rice is “not very bright” and is “unqualified” to be named Secretary of State by President Barack Obama are racist and sexist in addition to being untrue. ...
Read more ›EXCLUSIVE: NAACP mounts national Wilmington Ten petition
The national NAACP has once again joined its North Carolina conference of chapters in supporting pardons of innocence for the Wilmington Ten. ...
Read more ›EXCLUSIVE: Wilmington Ten prosecutor called “delusional” for defending “frameup”
Saying that former New Hanover County prosecutor James Jay Stroud is “delusional” for still defending his “frame-up” ” of the Wilmington Ten forty years ago, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, leader of the Ten, and others in the pardons effort, maintain that Stroud’s recent remarks in a StarNews interview this week are further evidence ...
Read more ›Barry Gordy’s role as a “history maker” is solidified
Barry Gordy Jr. may only be five-foot tall in height but he left big shoes to fill when he sold Motown Records nearly 25 years ago. ...
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