July 2013
July 19th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
The National Low Income Housing Coalition, along with four individual plaintiffs and the NY-based Right to the City Alliance are going after the Federal Housing Finance Agency for failing to fund the National Housing Trust Fund.
The suit, filed July 9, names the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward DeMarco, for failing to uphold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s legal...
July 19th, 2013
Written by Nicole Winfield... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
ROME (AP) - The vice president of Italy's Senate rejected calls for his resignation Tuesday for making a racist slur against Italy's first black Cabinet minister, but said he was sorry and would send her flowers to make amends.
Roberto Calderoli, a leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League, has been criticized by Italy's president, premier and a host of ministers and lawmakers for comparing...
July 18th, 2013
Written by Laurie Kellman in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and Democratic Rep. John Lewis are together again to fight for a new Voting Rights law. The white Wisconsin lawyer and the black preacher from Georgia strode into the Senate hearing room together and took their seats, shoulder-to-shoulder, at the witness table. Veteran lawmakers and experts in civil rights law, they've been here before....
July 18th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Race Relations with 0 Comments
A recent Rasmussen Reports Poll that concludes African-Americans are at least twice as likely to be more racist than any other ethnicity, including whites, has many critics responding with a consider the source type shrug.
The poll concluded that 37 percent of all American adults think that blacks hold the most warped attitudes toward other groups as it relates to race, while whites registered at...
July 18th, 2013
Written by Suzanne Gamboa ... in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) - While some looked at murder trial witness Rachel Jeantel and saw either a defiant young woman or a victim, Tom Joyner looked at her and saw potential.
The nationally syndicated radio personality and philanthropist says he was touched by Jeantel, who spent two days testifying in the trial of George Zimmerman about her last conversation with her friend Trayvon Martin.
In fact,...