The Obama Administration is postponing a much-touted provision of the new healthcare law which bars employers from providing better benefits to top executives than to other employees, reports the New York Times. SEE ALSO: Sen. Marco Rubio Enrolls Family In Obamacare…With A Discount Internal Revenue Service officials told the Times that they would not enforce the […]
A lot of young people seem to take action against injustices from behind their smartphone screens, but while social media can serve as a means of “e-activism,” it shouldn’t end with a tweet. On “NewsOne Now,“ this morning, a panelist of young African American leaders discussed how the new generation can foster movements to create […]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy is typically erased of all fire, unless it’s the fire (exaggerated by history) to integrate Black and White Americans. Though he walked in the radical tradition of Black liberation theology and spoke out against domestic and foreign terrorism with zeal, many in White America have rebranded him into a […]
Across the nation, January 20th signifies the federal holiday celebrated in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday. It also marks the day when President Barack Obama offically took office on that cold winter day in 2009. Now in his fifth year, President Obama has faced uncharted scrutiny for a man who was a […]
I hated the way Reverend Jeremiah Wright was treated during the 2008 presidential campaign. Republicans used him as another means of fueling White racial fears that then Sen. Barack Obama was some militant Black man who, if elected, would force every White person to pledge allegiance to Bad Boy Records, start eating scrapple and be […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s (pictured) daughter, Dr. Bernice King, is calling for this year’s King Holiday to be violence-free, honoring the civil rights leader who strongly promoted non-violence. SEE ALSO: What The New Voting Bill Means For Your State Though multiple events are scheduled through next week honoring M.L.K., Bernice King wants January 20th […]
Even though the birthday of iconic civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 85 years old, is on January 15th, the federal holiday will be observed on the 20th. Many folks all around the country will reflect on the milestone event then try to seize the moment as the perfect […]
Zakieya L. Avery, 28, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of two of her children and the attempted stabbing deaths of two other children in an alleged exorcism attempt, reports CNN. “She thought the devil was in the kids, and that’s […]
