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COLOMBIA CROWNS FIRST MISS BOGOTA

Diana Mina, a student from the Caribbean coast, was crowned on Thursday as the first Afro-Colombian Miss Bogota, and will represent the capital in the Miss Colombia contest.

The 19-year-old beauty queen is a native of La Guajira, in northern Colombia. She moved to the capital sixteen years ago, an… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on July 19, 2010 at 2:00am — No Comments

BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL KICKS OFF IN ATLANTA

Break out the champagne, the 2010 National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) begins now. Happening in Atlanta from July 14th through the 18th, the event bills itself is one of the America’s “pre-eminent presenters of the art and culture of the African Diaspora.” With a beautiful new web… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on July 16, 2010 at 10:47pm — No Comments

“MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL” CAMPAIGN CONNECTS WITH BLACK WOMEN

For close to three years now, global powerhouse Procter & Gamble, has achieved huge success with their “My Black is Beautiful” campaign. They have not only made strides with African American females, but also with their recruitment of minority candidates. Currently, 21 percent of P&G’s gl… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on July 13, 2010 at 10:35pm — No Comments

FREDERICK DOUGLAS' FAMOUS FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH ECHOES IN OBAMA ERA

A full century-and-a-half before President Barack Obama began mesmerizing the country with his moving oratory, another Black man gave what some call his greatest speech.

Frederick Douglass had not only a White parent and fatherless upbringing in common with Amer… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on July 4, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

FANS AROUND THE WORLD HONOR THE LATE KING OF POP

A year after Michael Jackson’s death caused a worldwide outpouring of shock, tears and tributes, the anniversary of his passing was being marked Friday on a quieter scale, as fans remembered their fallen King of Pop with vigils, prayer and, of course,… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 25, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

HOLLYWOOD INSISTS THAT HISTORY MUST BE WHITE-WASHED FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE

This isn’t anything new. Ya’ll know that every time a historical Black person is deemed to be of merit, his or her onscreen depiction will be done by white people as white people.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not one of those people so pathologically Black that I have… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 19, 2010 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

THE SLAVES WHO BUILT THE NATION'S CAPITOL BUILDING ARE FINALLY HONORED

African-American slaves sweated in the summer heat and shivered in the winter’s cold while helping to build the U.S. Capitol.

Congress took note of their service and sacrifice Wednesday by erecting commemorative pl… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 18, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

ERIC HOLDER IS TRYING TO GET RID OF RACIAL BIAS IN THE LAW

To his credit, the nation’s first black U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, has not shied away from discussing race and its impact on our criminal justice system. Shortly after he was confirmed, he famously said that ”in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 16, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

HOMELESS STUDENT ABANDONED BY FAMILY GETS FULL COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

In less than two weeks, some 50,000 city high school seniors will graduate.

Few of them will have overcome as many obstacles as Orayne Williams.

Abandoned by his family and living alone in a homeless shelter, the 18-year-old immigrant has not just endured, but excelled.… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 15, 2010 at 7:02pm — No Comments

BLACK-OWNED INVESTMENT BANK STRIKES BILLION DOLLAR DEAL

In a landmark deal, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) announced that it selected M.R. Beal & Co. (No. 4 in tax-exempt securities with $1.58 billion in lead issues on the BE Investment Banks list) as senior manager and sole book runner for its $1.3 billion Personal Income… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on June 6, 2010 at 9:10pm — No Comments

FIRST LADY TELLS WASHINGTON U. GRADS: GIVE

First lady Michelle Obama challenged George Washington University graduates at their commencement Sunday to "keep giving" through community service work and to "keep engaging" with the world.

Obama spoke to some 5,000 graduates and their families at the ceremony on the National Mall

… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 17, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

WHAT HAPPENED TO AFROCENTRICITY?

It used to be the default viewpoint of African-Americans. Asleep for decades, it restarted in the hip-hop community as a tremor in the late 1980’s and by the early 1990’s. A systematic quake of Afrocentricism ran like a current through the hearts and minds of Black folk in the United States.
… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 17, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

THE RACIST AUTOBOTS WON'T BE IN TRANSFORMERS 3

There were somehow enough people in the world who liked Transformers 2 that the movie became a gigantic hit, but I'm pretty sure there was one thing the fans and the haters could all agree on: Skids and Mudflap, the jive-talking robots correctly accused of being raci… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 13, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

NEGRO LEAGUES PLAYERS LEAGUE PLAYERS GET STAMP ON HISTORY

The two 44-cent postage stamps depict a baseball player sliding into home plate as Rube Foster, the founder of the Negro National League, looks on.

The stamps were created by San Diego artist Kadir Nelson, who also wrote a book about Negro Leagues baseball that is filled with his paintings of th… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 8, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

INNER CITY CHARTER SCHOOL GRADUATES ALL OF ITS SENIORS TO COLLEGE

The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation.

Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students a… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 6, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

ONE WOMAN RAISES 36 FOSTER CHILDREN

After spending 22 years of her life working in mortgage banking, Mollie Jelks admits she never found the sense of fulfillment she longed for. When her Citibank office relocated to St. Louis, Jelks wasn’t willing to follow. Instead, she picked up a temp job at the Children’s Bureau, a Southern California organizat… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 4, 2010 at 4:06am — No Comments

OPINION: IS HOLLYWOOD GENUINELY COLORBLIND OR ARE BLACK BABIES A NEW FASHION STATEMENT?

Even at the most basic level you have to give big props to anybody with the genuine love and kindness in their hearts necessary to adopt a child.

This is one of those cases where you can’t just sit on the sideline and criticize because adoptive parents have actually taken a stand. They’ve deci… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on May 2, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

MEET ASIA'S FIRST BLACK NEWS ANCHOR

28-year-old Zimbabwean Vimbayi Kajese first came to China for a visit in 2004, then moved to Beijing in 2006. She now works as the early morning news presenter at CCTV-9, the English Channel of China Central Television.

She is the first African news presenter on the Chinese Mainland and perhaps… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on April 29, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

PARENTING MAGAZINE TARGETING AFRICAN AMERICANS RELAUNCHED

Editor Makhosazana Zwane-Siguqa says the decision to reinvent the popular title Move! Parent to Move! Best Parent is based on the results of an extensive research campaign, which carefully reviewed the needs of the magazine's target readers and advertisers.

It now covers all aspects of parenting… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on April 29, 2010 at 9:48pm — No Comments

MEET AUTUMN ADKINS, PRESIDENT OF FORMERLY WHITES-ONLY PHILLY SCHOOL

The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as "a black girl from Richmond, Virginia," would have excluded her in years past.

The one-time white boys-only institution in Philadelphia did not admit its first black stude… Continue

Added by Quixotic Moor on April 27, 2010 at 5:15am — No Comments

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