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We Are Hiring, Just Not You: Black Unemployment Ticked Up to 13 Percent in August
The unemployment numbers are a joke. Let's face it. How it is calculated is ridiculous because all it takes is one quick visit to the black community and you can tell far more than 13% of the community is unemployed, but not being accounted for in these figures....
Faith Isn’t The Only Thing You Need To Succeed
Sure, you have to have faith to achieve your goals but the mental strength you gain in an attempt to exercise your faith pales in comparison to the ACTION you must take as a result of your faith. If you're sitting in your apartment and you have a need that has gone...
African American Teenage Girl Youngest To Pass The Bar Exam
Another brilliant African American teenager has pushed the barriers of color by breaking another scholastic record. Gabrielle Turnquest from Windermere, Florida is the youngest person to graduate from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., with an undergrad degree in...
Kid Entrepreneurs Jaden Wheeler And Amaya Selmon’s ‘Kool’ Idea Leads To Food Truck Business
AfricanAmerican.org - Jaden Wheeler and Amaya Selmon are the youngest owners of a food truck in Memphis, and by a few critical years. Neither is yet a teenager. The brother and sister team -- he's 12, she's 11 -- own and operate Kool Kidz Sno Konez, a little...
7 Symptoms of a Poverty Mentality
Have you ever wondered why some people make it past the financial constraints of poverty while others don’t? It all boils down to interests, attitude and focus. Read through these 7 Symptoms of a Poverty Mentality, to be sure you don’t need to be diagnosed with this...
Black Woman Scores Major Court Win Against Black Boss Who Repeatedly Called Her The N-Word
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Is it racist for a black boss to call a black employee the N-word? In an an odd case that has come to a fascinating conclusion, a jury ruled yes. And the lawyer for a black woman whose hostile workplace claim against her boss’s N-word rant...
Obama’s Anti-Black Rant
Obama’s twisted view of Black people and their history was on full display at the March on Washington anniversary. The president spewed slanders and lies, conjuring up welfare queens, crazed Black militants and his old stand-by, bad Black parents. “To put it bluntly,...
Federal jury rules it’s illegal to use the N-word while at work even if you’re black
A federal jury has ruled that use of the 'N-word' is discriminatory workplace behavior, even when used among blacks. A black New York City employment agency worker who was the target of a slur-laced rant by her black boss has been awarded $250,000 in compensatory...
Tulsa School Sends Black Girl Home Over Dreadlocks
(Fox 23) Tulsa - Deborah Brown Community School is one student short for the remainder of the school year. Terrance Parker said the school hassled him and didn't leave him a choice. Parker said he yanked his 7-year-old daughter, Tiana, out of classes because of a...
Meeting in Wyo. between NAACP, Klan heads marks history
DENVER (AP) — A meeting between the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend is believed to be the first of its kind. The meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from...
10 Year Old Nigerian Girl Makes History As Youngest Person To Be Interviewed by Forbes
A Nigerian girl, 10-year old Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed on popular magazine Forbes. The interview with the award winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of...
Tavis Smiley: Obama “Dishonoring” MLK’s Memory With Push For War in Syria
Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Tavis Smiley made no qualms about contrasting Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent legacy and President Obama’s call for war with Syria. In Smiley’s view, President Obama, who recently spoke at the commemoration of the...
