Wednesday 23 May 2012
Washington- In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1st, the NAACP stands united in the global fight against HIV and AIDS. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988 to provide national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organizations and individuals with an opportunity to raise awareness and focus attention on the global...
To the Editor: I love the Bedford-Stuyvesant community. My family and I are newcomers and would like for our local politicians to stop using and abusing the words “black community”. Yes, we know Bed-Stuy is mostly black, but that will not be the case for very long. We wish you would include others like...
Asthma in the African-American child may be caused by things other than what is commonly suggested. In many African-American homes sometimes we do things that others might not be doing, such as burning incense. Incense has a flux that comes off like any burning weed or leaf and that might be causing a child...
“Say it loud! I’m Black and I’m Proud!” When we entered the Siloam Presbyterian Church, whose 161 year-old history includes the congregation taking up a $25 collection for the visiting John Brown on his way to Harper’s Ferry, the beat of James Brown was reverberating from the large meeting room up the stairs and...
African-American Issues Brings Together Hundreds at Convention Freedom Party Hosts First Statewide Convention Several hundred from around the state packed the historic Siloam Presbyterian Church to ratify Council member Charles Barron as the Freedom Party’s candidate for governor. Barron named Eva Doyle as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor. Mrs. Doyle is a longtime...
The news coverage of the Gulf oil spill might lead you to think black fishers did not exist or were not affected. That is not true, although they are a dwindling breed. Correspondent Brentin Mock and photographer Shawn Escoffery ferreted them out and listened to their stories. Black Gulf Fishers Face a Murky Future...
During the early 1960′s, he .. . encouraged Black people to support Black Press. . read voraciously from early childhood and believed that reading enlarged the world. . was a great student of Black History, inspired by John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom. And the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes....
