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Preparing for 2016 Campaign, Hillary Clinton Embracing Obama

March 27, 2015

By Julie Pace & Ken Thomas, Associated Press March 27, 2015   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)     “Candidates that get all tangled up trying align with or separate from their party or their president have a very poor track record of success.”     WASHINGTON, D.C. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Rather than keeping him at […]

Popular Interests In This Article: 2016 Campaign, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, GOP Republican Party, Hillary Rodham Clinton, MARCH 27 2015, VOL. 25 NO. 11

Male Nurses Scarce but Make More Money Than Women RNS: Study

March 27, 2015

By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer March 27, 2015       CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they still earn less than men, a study of nurses found.   The gender gap for registered nurses' salaries amounts to a little over $5,000 yearly on average and it […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Gender Gap, Male Nurses, MARCH 27 2015, Nursing, Pay Gap, VOL. 25 NO. 11

Starbucks Baristas Stop Writing ‘Race Together’ on Cups

March 27, 2015

By Candice Choi & Tom Krisher, Associated Press March 27, 2015   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)     NEW YORK, NEW YORK (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting Sunday, ending a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign that had sparked widespread criticism in […]

Popular Interests In This Article: MARCH 27 2015, Race Together, Starbucks, VOL. 25 NO. 11

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Legislation

March 20, 2015

By Aubrey Koski March 20, 2015       Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech urging Congress to enact voting rights legislation.   President Johnson’s speech, delivered before Congress on March 15, 1965, culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the nation’s hallmark Civil Rights legislative […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lynn Adelman, MARCH 20 2015, MARCH 6 2015, VOL. 25 NO. 10, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act VRA, Wade Henderson

Police Deny Using Excessive Force in Ferguson Suspect Arrest

March 20, 2015

By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press March 20, 2015     CLAYTON, MISSOURI (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused of shooting two officers in Ferguson are “completely false.”   Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas on Monday suggested police may have roughed up […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Excessive Force, Ferguson MO, Jeffrey Williams, Jon Belmar, MARCH 20 2015, St. Louis County Police, Tom Jackson, VOL. 25 NO. 10

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine of ‘Gong Show’ Fame Dies

March 20, 2015

(REUTERS) — Eugene Patton, the stage hand who earned fame as "Gene Gene The Dancing Machine" on the quirky talent romp "The Gong Show," has died at the age of 82 after suffering from diabetes, his family said.   At what were supposed to be spontaneous moments in the show launched in the 1970s that […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Chuck Barris, Eugene Patton, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, MARCH 20 2015, Passing, The Gong Show, TV, VOL. 25 NO. 10

Racism, Hazing, Nude Photos & Vandalism Rock U.S. College Fraternities

March 20, 2015

March 20, 2015   The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is seen at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, in this March 9, 2015 (File photo by Reuters)     (REUTERS) — Cases of racism, hazing, nude photos and vandalism rocked U.S. college fraternities this week, with one of the country's biggest groups pledging on […]

Popular Interests In This Article: College Fraternities, Hazing, MARCH 20 2015, Racism, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, University of Oklahoma, Vandalism, VOL. 25 NO. 10

Ferguson, MO Police Chief Resigns

March 13, 2015

By Jim Salter, Associated Press March 13, 2015   In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson releases the name of the officer accused of fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. On Friday, March 6, 2015, Jackson is still on the job, two days after a government report criticized his […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Eric Holder, Ferguson MO, James Knowles III, Justice Department, MARCH 13 2015, Michael Brown, Racial Profiling, Thomas Jackson, VOL. 25 NO. 9

Blacks Now Finishing High School at Record Levels

March 13, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent March 13, 2015   In this May 5, 2014 photo, Krishaun Branch, left, moves the tassel on his mortarboard to the left side after graduating from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — After 30 years of little to no progress, Black […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for Economic Policy Research CEPR, High School Graduation Rates, MARCH 13 2015, VOL. 25 NO. 9

VOICES: A Relentless Crusader for Diversity is Lost

March 13, 2015

By Brent Jones March 13, 2015   Dori J. Maynard (Photo: Jane Tyska, Oakland Tribune via AP)     Journalism lost a courageous soldier this week.     Dori J. Maynard, 56, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, didn't report in combat zones. She had no battle scars to show. Dori's fight was of a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Media, Dori J. Maynard, Journalist, MARCH 13 2015, Nancy Hicks Maynard, Passing, Robert Maynard, The Oakland Tribune, VOICES, VOL. 25 NO. 9

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