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The disappearing Black middle class
Category: National Written by Associated Press
by Jesse Washington
(AP)—Millions of Americans endured financial calamities in the recession. But for many in the Black community, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty. And some experts warn of a historic reversal of hard-won economic gains that took Black people decades to achieve.
“History is going to say the Black middle class was decimated” over the past few years, said Maya Wiley, director of the Center for Social Inclusion. “But we’re not done writing history.”
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| AT ODDS WITH PRESIDENT—Princeton Professor Cornel West, center, eagerly shakes the hand of President Barack Obama in July 2010. Today, West calls Obama “a Black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Algernon Austin, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy adds, “The recession is not over for Black folks.”
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Select restaurants, airlines banning children from service
Category: National Written by Courier Newsroom
It seems that not everyone loves babies—especially some businesses.
A Monroeville restaurant will ban children under the age of 6 from its dining area beginning July 16 after receiving noise complaints from older clientele. The small, 40-seat McDain’s Restaurant and Golf Center located in Monroeville, Pa., resides on a golf course and attracts older customers, according to ABC News.
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One million fathers asked to lead children back to school this fall
Category: National Written by Courier Newsroom
For the seventh year, men around the country will be asked to lead their children back to school this fall during the Million Father March.
The nationwide movement encourages Black men to drop students off on their first day of school and guard school doors to symbolize their support and protectiveness of all children earning their education.
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This Week In Black History
Category: National Written by Robert N. Taylor
For the Week of July 23-29
July 23
1900—The first Pan African conference takes place in London, England. Blacks from throughout the world gathered to plot strategies for bringing about rights for all people of African ancestry, independence from colonialism for African countries and international Black unity. This “conference” was the precursor of all the subsequent Pan African “Congresses.” Among the most prominent names present in 1900 were African-American activist and intellectual W.E.B. DuBois and West Indian lawyer H. Sylvester Williams. “Pan Africanism” became both a movement and a way of thinking.
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W.E.B. DuBOIS
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NAACP concerned over CNN news lineup
Category: National Written by NNPA News Service
(NNPA)—The NAACP is “deeply concerned” about the absence of African-Americans among the hosts or anchors in the Cable News Network’s just-released prime time schedule.
“As CNN announced their new schedule, a glaring omission was present–-no African-Americans were hosts or anchors in their prime time lineup,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement. “The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of African-American journalists in prime time news, both on cable and national network news shows.”
Apparently, this is not just a CNN problem. According to the NAACP, there are currently no African-Americans hosting or anchoring any national or cable news shows during peak viewing hours.
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