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*President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding or eliminated out right community service block grants that fund an array of community education, health and social service programs in poor, underserved, largely [...]
*Cornel West is the topic of conversation again after making his opinion known once more, but this time about Melissa Harris-Perry. As we reported yesterday, he called her a “liar” and that “[s]he’s become the momentary darling of liberals, but I pray for her because she’s in over her head. She’s a fake and a [...]
*Talk show host and activist Tavis Smiley is set to confront the issue of poverty head on Thursday (tonight) as he moderates “Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity.” The C-SPAN live broadcast will air from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Jan. 12 and will feature a panel of experts at George Washington [...]
By Jasmyne A. Cannick Now I’m not trying to hate on Occupy LA, but after looking at news photos of the recent goings on, I couldn’t help but think of the National Organization for Women—and we all know that NOW was never about the liberation and equal rights of Black women. All that’s to say, [...]
*Are you suffering from malnutrition? Are you receiving any public assistance or do not have access to emergency funds if you need them? Do you experience debilitating depression, so much so, that it has rendered you incapable of holding down a job or looking for one? What about XBox? Do you own one of those [...]
*As budget and economic policy debates rage on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the great untold story in America may be the undermining of the American middle class – both white and Black – as the wealthy take an ever growing share of the nation’s income and wealth. Here are the latest figures released this [...]
*Here we go again. The Hurricane Katrina nightmare continues. A story at the Washington Post tells the tale of how New Orleans’ recovery diverges for affluent whites and low-income blacks. “For people who were well-off before the storm, they are more likely to be back in their homes, back in their jobs and to have [...]
*Raging torrents had shot furniture through walls and pushed houses into the street near Nashville’s historically black Fisk and Tennessee State universities. Only a few tents tops poked above the floodwaters on Wednesday where dozens of homeless once lived along the still-swollen banks of the Cumberland River. As the city’s vibrant country music scene gets [...]
*A newly released study strongly suggests that Black, Hispanic and poor patients in America are far less likely than whites to be referred to the best hospitals for treatment of brain tumors. The study was the work of researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. It was published in last month’s [...]
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