May 2013
May 10th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in All About Family with 1 Comment
With Mother's Day coming up, the African-American community holds several special events such as church services, music concerts, and dinners. However, there is often less fanfare when it comes to Father's Day.
Many African-American experts say it is not surprising that the black community overemphasizes Mother's Day. They say that mother's have a special place in the black community.
"Mother's...
May 9th, 2013
Written by Hope Yen in Race & Politics, Latest News with 2 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Making history, America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data shows. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996.
Blacks were the only race or ethnic group to show an increase in voter turnout last...
May 9th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in Eyes On The Enterprise with 1 Comment
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with the black unemployment rate at about 14 percent, almost double the overall unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, Foster Williams says that unemployed African-Americans need to take a new approach.
Williams is managing partner of Search4uinc.com, an employment networking organization based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Williams, who says he has 10...
May 9th, 2013
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
If you read USAonRace, you no doubt don’t need to be preached to, however, it may interest you to know that diversity has economic payoffs. According to Sophia Kerby and Crosby Burns, writers for the online publication for the Center for American Progress, “The Top 10 Economic Facts of Diversity in the Workplace,” July 12, 2012, those businesses with a diverse workforce — one that includes gay...
May 8th, 2013
Written by Michael Bieseck... in Feature Stories with 2 Comments
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Sgt. 1st Class Naida Hosan is not a Muslim - she's a Catholic. But her name sounded Islamic to fellow U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and they taunted her, calling her "Sgt. Hussein" and asking what God she prayed to.
So before deploying to Afghanistan last year for her second war tour, she legally changed her name - to Nadia Christian Nova.
This did not solve her problems.
Instead,...