African-American News - May 25, 2010

African-American News - May 25, 2010

 

 

DVD Sequel Features Profiles of Prominent African-Americans (The Afro American Newspaper)

Originally published May 24, 2010 Film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders collaborated on another series of fascinating interviews with a mix of African-American artists, activists, academics and athletes.

Comcast Under Fire: Black Media Reps Demand More Black-Owned Channels (The Skanner)

Ownership is a major driver of the Black economy. Knowing this, a group advocating Black media ownership and a former Federal Communications Commission chairman are spearheading a crusade against cable giant Comcast and their proposed merger with NBC/Universal over the cable operator's lack of African-American owned channels on its national ...

Trial Begins for Ex-Chicago Police Lt. Accused of Torturing More than 100 African American Men (democracynow)

A former police commander accused of overseeing the torture of more than 100 African American men goes on trial today in Chicago. Former Lieutenant Jon Burge is accused of lying when he denied in a civil lawsuit that he and other detectives had tortured anyone. He faces a maximum of forty-five years in prison if convicted of all charges. The accusations of torture date back forty years, but Burge has avoided prosecution until now. For nearly two decades, beginning in 1971, Burge was at the epicenter of what has been described as the systematic torture of dozens of black men to coerce confessions. In total, more than 100 people in Chicago say they were subjected to abuse, including having guns forced into their mouths, suffocation with bags placed over their heads, and electric shocks inflicted to their genitals.

NAACP raises funds for seminars (Mt. Vernon Register-News)

The Jefferson County Branch of the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People held its sixth pancake and sausage breakfast to raise funds for job and scholarship seminars.

WWI Museum honors nurses (Kansas City Nursing News)

The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial shows the conflict through the eyes of nurses who served in the Great War.

High Court Says Black Firefighter Suit Can Proceed (WXIA-TV Atlanta)

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of African Americans did not wait too long to sue Chicago over a hiring test they challenged as discriminatory, freeing them to further press their case.

Museum On Black Military History Celebrates 1 Year (NBC 15 Online)

The African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg is part of an effort to raise public awareness of the significance of African-Americans in military history.

African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to get Alzheimer's disease (Tulare Advance-Register)

The close-knit siblings began to notice little things about their mother, Roberta Randolph.

African-Americans And Women Less Likely To Undergo Bone Marrow Transplantation (RedOrbit)

African-Americans and women are less likely than Caucasians and men to undergo bone marrow transplantation to treat cancers of the blood.

Syracuse NAACP giving Freedom Award to Melanie Littlejohn (The Post-Standard)

Melanie Littejohn will receive the Freedom Award on Wednesday from the Syracuse/Onondaga County NAACP for her work as a facilitator for the Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism.