(BlackNews.com): Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), has announced the results of a national poll commissio
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CAMBRIDGE, Md. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, local officials and community stakeholders on Maryland’s Eastern Shore yesterday to celebrate President Bara
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has announced that Roland S. Martin, nationally syndicated columnist, television host, and radio and television commentator, is to receive the organization’s
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This year’s presidential election race is going to be close because African-Americans will not vote in the same numbers as they did for Barack Obama four years ago when he made history by becoming the first Black president to oc
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Thousands of activists from across the United States are expected to join the NAACP and other civil rights leaders in Sanford, Florida on Saturday, March 31 to honour the memory of Trayvon Martin and to move the national conversat
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By WESLEY LOWERY Daryl D. Parks, an attorney for the family of slain Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, said he does not believe the Justice Department will pursue federal hate crime charges against George Zimmerman
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By CHRISTOPHER E. BENJAMIN BlackNews.com: Since the death of teenager, Trayvon Martin, there has been a whirlwind of coverage about the Seminole County's police department's failure to arrest h
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The 8th Annual True Blue Weekend will take place March 16-18, 2012. The 3-day event is hosted by the St. Andrew Old Girls' Association Florida Inc., the St. George's College Old Boys Association of Florida, Inc. and the Jamaica Co
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts & Nevis: Ambassador to the United States, Jacinth Henry-Martin, is to visit the national association in Houston, Texas this weekend.     The St. Kitts-Nevis Association of Ho
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.: The winners of the “43RD NAACP Image Awards” were announced during the live broadcast from Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium which aired February 17 on NBC.   The two-hou
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