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JANS – Early Tuesday morning, Jan. 24, 2011, busses of domestic workers and their children began arriving at the huge grassy mall in front of California’s state capitol building. Dozens of Mexican, Filipina and African American moms, kids in tow, poured out onto the steps leading into the legislature’s chamber. When the crowd grew to [...]
JANS – In a ceremony in Monrovia, Liberia, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity gave Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf its Alpha Award of Honor. The award is the highest accolade presented to a nonmember of the fraternity. Ms. Johnson Sirleaf also was given the first ever Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Medal by the fraternity. The [...]
By Earnest McBride Jackson Advocate Contributing Editor President Barack Obama praised Dr. Martin Luther King , Oct. 16, 2011, as “a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals.” His efforts at obtaining equal rights for the largely disfranchised black segment of the nation’s population while [...]
By Dr. Juanita Doty JA Guest Writer Attending the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has become an annual event I always look forward to attending. I was delighted to spend some time with Congressman Bennie Thompson as he spoke at several of the CBC sessions I attended and gave us an update on issues related to [...]
JANS – Mayor Kasim Reed joined members of the Atlanta City Council, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle, and hundreds of other community and civic leaders on Tuesday, September 20, in recognizing the contributions of civil rights activist and broadcasting pioneer Xernona Clayton. Clayton was recognized for a lifetime of contributions to community and humanity with the [...]
By Earnest McBride Jackson Advocate Contributing Editor Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011 Miss Angola Leila Lopes, 25, ascended to the highest throne in the beauty world Monday as she was crowned Miss Universe 2011 Monday evening in the closing moments of the pageant staged in Sao Paulo, Brazil.. Lopes, a business management student in [...]
Tribute By Artaymis Ma’at NUBIA, is that you that shines so brightly in the night? Guiding the way to a NU passage? Or do you flow as the fertile River Nile endlessly? Notice the flowers that grow, the birds that sing and nature doing its thing. Nubia lives. Perhaps she’s the gentle wind that [...]
By Earnest McBride Jackson Advocate Contributing Editor A general class reunion of Vicksburg’s Rosa A. Temple High School alumni is scheduled for September 2-4 at The Holiday Inn and at the former Temple High School, with worship services set for Sunday at Spring Hill Baptist Church in Vicksburg. A meet and greet event will begin [...]
By Denise Rolark Barnes Special to NNPA from The Washington Informer The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial officially opened this week on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 28-foot tall granite statue, which stands between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, and the nearby F.D. Roosevelt memorial, is the first monument on the National Mall [...]
By The Associated Press Jackson, MI (August 2, 2011) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick walked free from a state prison early Tuesday after serving just over a year for violating probation in a 2008 criminal case. A relative escorted Kilpatrick from a Southern Michigan Prison facility in Jackson to a sport utility vehicle waiting outside. [...]
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