NC Black jobless rate twice higher
The Black jobless rate in North Carolina is twice higher than that of Whites and Hispanics. ...
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IN DEFENSE OF ASSATA
Group sends letter to President Obama concerning Assata Shakur being declared a terrorist ...
Read more ›Pell Grant changes will slow Black graduation rates
The program, which provides low-income students with financial aid they do not have to repay, was projected to face an $18.3 billion shortfall during 2012-2013 academic year because of an increase in need. ...
Read more ›DANIELS HONORED
CFCC art gallery gets new name ...
Read more ›Rev. Jesse Jackson says that jails are financially exploiting families of the incarcerated
One of these forms of exploitation that Rev. Jackson notes is the high cost of making a phone call in the Cook County Jail. In Cook County jails, prisoners are charged as much as $15 a call to be in touch with their relatives. ...
Read more ›Was it police brutality?
A WPD K-9 officer and WPD investigators were able to stop the vehicle on Independence Boulevard and remove the passenger, Roy Augusta Smith II, and the female driver, Shanita Wynette Reid. Both were arrested. ...
Read more ›Governor Beverly Perdue calls it “naked racism”
In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a “significant” moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to members of the Wilmington Ten. ...
Read more ›Stronger Violence Against Women Act signed into law
President Obama signed the reauthorized bill last week after Congress united and voted to expand the law to offer protection to women in lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and Native American communities ...
Read more ›Willistonians heading to Seabreeze
BY LINDA PEARCE CONTRIBUTING WRITER On July 6th, Willistonians will travel down 421 to re-create one of the fondest memories of our lifetimes – a trip to Seabreeze to dine on seafood and dance to the oldie goldies we used to hear back in the day. The event is being brought back by popular demand as a result of the tremendous time had by those who attended last year when over 100 persons boarded chart ...
Read more ›Wilmington Ten team thanks Black Press for pardons
PARDONS TEAM AT NNPA - NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell (right) poses with members of the Wilmington Ten Pardons of Innocence Project (from left to right), co-chair and Wilmington Journal publisher Mary Alice Thatch; project coordinator and Carolinian/Wilmington Journal writer Cash Michaels; co-chair and NCCU Law Professor Irv Joyner; Wilmington Ten leader Dr. Ben Chavis; and Wilmington Ten lead defense attorn ...
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