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NAACP Report Shows Television Industry Still Falls Seriously Short In Achieving Diversity Organization's 'Out of Focus, Out of Sync—Take 4' Report Urges Quick Action, Establishment of Task Force Encompassing Network Heads to Create Standards | Posted: Dec 21, 08 | 11:41 am |
Authors pick their 2008 favorite Latino books Thirteen leading and upcoming authors from Latin America and the U.S. participated, and in the process gave us a peek at what they have in store for next year. | Posted: Dec 21, 08 | 11:30 am |
The History of Blacks in the White House: Slavery and Service Slaves not only helped build the White House, but also for decades men and women in bondage served America’s presidents and first families as butlers, cooks and maids. | Posted: Dec 14, 08 | 8:24 am |
Reading out loud: Literary venues for Latinos bloom in the city When two landmark Spanish bookstores closed within a month of each other last year, the New York Latino literati plunged into mourning. | Posted: Nov 19, 08 | 1:57 pm |
African Textiles Two new exhibitions provide insight on the history and artistry, of wax-print cloth in Africa — and on Western viewers’ relative ignorance of both. | Posted: Nov 11, 08 | 1:08 pm |
Taking Africa With Her to the World To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the South African singer Miriam Makeba took on willingly and forcefully. Despite her lifelong claim that she was not a political singer, she became “Mama Africa” with an activist’s tenacity and a musician’s ear. She died Sunday, at 76, after a concert in Italy. | Posted: Nov 11, 08 | 1:05 pm |
Long Island 'lynch mob' killed our American Dream Alleged hate crime ringleader Jeffrey Conroy and six of his pals are arraigned Monday in fatal stabbing of Marcello Lucero. | Posted: Nov 11, 08 | 12:50 pm |
Scientists unlock secret of death protein’s activation May lead to drugs that force cancer cells to self-destruct | Posted: Nov 08, 08 | 1:11 pm |
Study links teen pregnancy to sexy TV shows Exposure to some forms of entertainment is a corrupting influence on children, leading teens who watch sexy programs into early pregnancies and children who play violent video games to adopt aggressive behavior, researchers said on Monday. | Posted: Nov 04, 08 | 8:24 am |
A Somali Influx Unsettles Latino Meatpackers Like many workers at the meatpacking plant here, Raul A. Garcia, a Mexican-American, has watched with some discomfort as hundreds of Somali immigrants have moved to town in the past couple of years, many of them to fill jobs once held by Latino workers taken away in immigration raids. | Posted: Oct 17, 08 | 10:08 am |
Salsa lovers relish Grupo Folklórico comeback The life of Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino was as brief as its name was long. | Posted: Oct 17, 08 | 9:52 am |
Two first-time authors bring fresh Boricua lit right from the streets Two Boricua authors from New York are debuting this fall with stories of hard-earned lessons from the streets. | Posted: Oct 17, 08 | 9:38 am |
Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. | Posted: Sep 16, 08 | 9:23 am |
"The Abolition of the Slave Trade" Collection at The Schomburg The Abolition of the Slave Trade presents more than 8,000 pages of original essays, primary documents—books, pamphlets, articles, and illustrations—as well as secondary sources and original maps. | Posted: Sep 13, 08 | 8:04 am |
[BOOK] An Afrocentric Manifesto Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. | Posted: Sep 13, 08 | 7:50 am |
Black in America: The Study Research finds that African Americans aren't a monolithic group | Posted: Aug 15, 08 | 9:02 am |
AT&T Loses Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Sales representative awarded more than $400,000 | Posted: Aug 15, 08 | 8:59 am |
En peligro de desaparecer invaluable tesoro taíno Esos petroglifos son joyas del arte rupestre taíno | Posted: Aug 04, 08 | 8:06 am |
N.Y. Wants All Bronx Adults Tested for HIV Community-based organizations, hospitals, and health clinics throughout New York City will voluntarily test every adult resident between the ages of 18-64 living in the Bronx for HIV, The New York Times reports. | Posted: Aug 04, 08 | 8:02 am |
You think slavery ended in 1865? Historic revelations reset the clock on the old argument over how much progress African Americans have or have not made since slavery ''ended'' in 1865. The astonishing notion may change your understanding of what we are as Americans. | Posted: Jul 23, 08 | 9:21 am |
Puerto Rico archeological find mired in politics U.S. archaeologist Nathan Mountjoy sits next to stones etched with ancient petroglyphs and graves that reveal unusual burial methods in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The archaeological find, one of the best-preserved pre-Columbian sites found in the Caribbean, form a large plaza measuring some 130 feet by 160 feet that could have been used for ball games or ceremonial rites, officials said. | Posted: Jul 02, 08 | 9:35 am |
Puerto Ricans moving out of the Big Apple Hurrying to serve her customers, Doña Adela Benítez couldn't believe what was happening in her neighborhood, the Lower East Side: “It's been several weeks since I started looking for a Puerto Rican cook, and I can't find anybody. I can't hire anyone else because my food will lose its flavor.” | Posted: Jun 20, 08 | 9:55 am |
For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope When Youssoupha, a black rapper here, was asked the other day what was on his mind, a grin spread across his face. “Barack Obama,” he said. “Obama tells us everything is possible.” | Posted: Jun 19, 08 | 12:10 pm |
Martial Art of Chess, Promoted by a Rapper The rapper RZA, a founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, sat in a suite on the 48th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel overlooking Central Park, staring at a chess game through a pair of sunglasses. His hand was frozen a few inches above the board as he looked for a strategy to thwart his opponent. | Posted: Jun 19, 08 | 12:07 pm | |
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