New Radio PSAs Launched in Time for World Lupus Day Twenty-two percent of 18-44 year old women in the United States reported hearing more about lupus compared to a year ago, according to a national online survey released today by the Ad Council. In an e...

(NNPA) - If you ever attended a National Council of Negro Women event, you ended up singing "This Little Light of Mine" at the end of the event. It was Dr. Dorothy Irene Height's favorite song, "This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine".The c...

At the invitation of Michael McMillan, I traveled to St. Louis last week to address the annual Salute to Women Leadership awards luncheon. For seven years, McMillan has been sponsoring this extravagant event. The fact that a man would sponsor it and have ...

Props to Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest historically-black fraternity, for moving its national convention out of Arizona because of that state's repugnant new immigration law. Instead of meeting in Phoenix this July, A Phi A will convene its 90th na...

Mr. Steele (and RNC staff), just as a little experiment, you might try thinking before you speak. In a tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall shortly before his death, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan quoted our first black Justice as having said the Cons...

I am a junior at John Muir High School. At school, teachers and counselors were announcing that the ROP program was going to have applications for summer jobs. I was very excited because I felt that it would be a good opportunity for me to work and get ...

One of the newspapers I read regularly is the Tri State Defender. It is a paper out of Memphis, Tennessee and covers Tennessee and Mississippi and, like The Journal, it is a weekly, owned by African Americans. It has been around for a long time. Historica...

(NNPA) - Legendary singer, actress and dancer Lena Horne died on Sunday night at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center at the age of 92. The Brooklyn-born entertainer was the first Black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a...

The NBA Playoffs are exciting, even when the Lakers are not playing as well as we would like. They did survive in the Series against the Thunder, although it was touch and go for a whole. Watching the 21-year old Kevin Dunlap was a scary pleasure. To par...

Dr. Harry Edwards was the keynote speaker at UCLA's Bunche Center's 21st Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Law and Human Rights. His accomplishments and influence has transformed professional sports, as we know it today.The scholar activist, best known for adv...

Congratulations to the Sue B. Dance Company performance team for their successful participation in the Starpower Talent Regional Competion held on March 12-14 in Upland, CA. The team took five-1st place trophies, two-1st place overall highest score award...

On Saturday May 15, from 3:00-6:00 p.m. over 100 youth and adults will gather at the Western Justice Center for a creative celebration of youth in the Los Angeles region who is actively building peace in their communities. Peace is an ART will feature doz...

The 2nd Annual NATHA (Neighbors Acting Together Helping All) Golf Tournament will be held Monday, May 17, 2010 at the exclusive and private La Canada Flintridge Country Club. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m., a delicious BBQ lunch will be served at 11:00...

Talented young people from a wide variety of disciplines were recognized as local winners in the 2010 Altadena NAACP ACT-SO Awards Celebration held Sunday, April 25, 2010 at the Altadena Community Center. The celebration draws interest from the local com...

The social-religious policy of Jesus was met with fierce oppositional resistance by the religious establishment who also happened to serve as the governmental/civil officials of late Second Temple Palestine. It was a century prior to this (circa 150 B.C. ...

I recently received a call from a lady who asked me, "Are you a mother?" My reply was "yes". She then proceeded to say, "Well, you understand. You know how a mother feels." She was referring to her grown daughter who she had expressed concern about tr...

Like a relentless tide, foreclosures are pressing people into corners; closing in and eroding their ability to keep their homes. This is the reality confronting millions of American homeowners – many of them over 50 and many of them people of color. Sad...

(NNPA) - On April 29, the Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee met to address the shortfalls of current federal programs intended to stem still-unfolding foreclosures. The session led by subcommittee chair, Illinois' ...

The first annual Dress for Success fundraising event held April 27th at Lovebirds Café celebrated outstanding Muir Business & Entrepreneurship Academy students who presented business plans and described job shadowing experiences to PUSD officers, Mui...

(NNPA) - Like everyone else who read Professor Skip Gates' piece in the New York Times asserting that Africans were just as responsible for slavery as Europeans, I was aghast because he is one of the most acclaimed scholars in the country and his position...