• Black managers also a rare breed
  By: NICK PETERS
  News Source: KnoxNews.com
  
  Baseball celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the majors' color line Sunday, but it would be difficult to convince African American managerial candidates that significant progress has been made in hiring practices. As the 2007 season begins, merely two - the New York Mets' Willie Randolph and Texas Rangers rookie Ron Washington - manage major-league baseball teams. ...
  
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• And then they came for Imus
  By: James Henry Davis
  
  At first they came... At first the religious leaders came for Howard and Opie and Anthony. I was very offended, I did not speak out, and they took them away. Then the gay leaders came for Laura. She is a woman with a religious belief who made free speech, I did not know the woman, so I said nothing so they took her away. Then the black leaders came for Imus, I liked the show and I w ...
  
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• Nappy Headed Hos???
  By: Claire Bretana
  News Source: Media Matters
  
  On the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, host Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which is comprised of eight African-American women and two white players, as "nappy-headed hos" immediately after the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team "hard-core hos." Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, wh ...
  
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• Black coaches seek hire calling
  By: Jean-Jacques Taylor
  News Source: Dallas News
  
  For every sports pioneer, it's not so much the fame his accomplishment brought him, but the opportunities his legacy created for others. See, it's not about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier 60 years ago. It's about today's major league rosters being filled by players from all nationalities. And it's not about Bill Russell being the NBA's first black coach nearly 40 years ago. It's ...
  
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• Barack Obama: The First Black President?
  By: Claire Bretana
  News Source: DiversityWorking.com
  
  In the critically-acclaimed multi-awarded tv series, "24", we were introduced to the concept of a Black president. Somehow the idea did not seem bad at all. On television, that is. But when reality followed fiction, the public outlook changes and many people were not that supportive of the idea of having an African American sitting in the Oval Office as President. ...
  
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• African-American History Month: 'Heroes for All Americans'
  By: Lt. Col. George Farfour, 595th
  News Source: Schriever Air Force Base
  
  1/29/2007 - SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- February, as African-American History Month, is a time to reflect on the contributions of African-Americans to our country. Though no single article can adequately cover African-American history justly, there are few areas that can rival the vast participation of African-Americans in war. African-Americans came to the aid of their country every ...
  
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• Black Super Bowl coaches long time coming
  By: Devin Hicks
  News Source: StatePress.com
  
  I am normally one of the first people to admit that making an issue about race when it doesn't need to be is annoying. You know what I'm talking about - people who point out the fact that "He was black" or "She's an Asian" when it's not necessary to the conversation. However, I feel the media buzz surrounding the first two black head coaches to reach a Super Bowl is a ...
  
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• African American Coaches in Superbowl XLI
  By: Claire Bretana
  
  African American coaches are a rare species in the National Football League. The hiring process may have been more discriminating than with the college football teams. As far back as 2004 there have already been 5 African American football coaches hired, including Sylvester Croom, the first African American to be hired as football coach in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) which was known fo ...
  
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• King's legacy for racial justice includes immigrants
  News Source: InsideBayArea.com
  
  DR. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for a better society included not just African Americans but everyone, every group. It is not hard for us to imagine Dr. King encouraging us to Welcome the Strangers — a teaching from the Judeo Christian tradition to accept newcomers into our communities. He understood that justice is indivisible. His journey in the fight for civil rights took him from ...
  
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• African-American history is integral to U.S. history
  By: LaVerne Franklin - Naples
  News Source: NaplesNews.com
  
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) of Collier County in collaboration with the Collier County Museum is hosting an African-American history series/extravaganza of educational programs that will showcase hundreds of years of historical memorabilia, artifacts and personal paraphernalia. The NAACP and museum offer a revealing look at the lives of some citizen ...
  
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• African-American Website Sparks Controversy
  By: Alafaka Opuiyo
  News Source: The Washington Afro-American
  
  A new site with a controversial name now calls the World Wide Web home. Niggaspace.com, modeled after the popular website, Myspace.com, is not meant to offend anyone, according to the site's creator, an 18-year-old high student from New Jersey named "Tyrone"—not his real name. During a November interview on "The Playhouse," a morning show on 104.5 WSNX, "Tyrone," ...
  
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• Workplace diversity aids mission success
  By: Capt. Galynn Hermann, 30th Spa
  News Source: BlackAnthem.com Military News
  
  Blackanthem Military News, VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- If you are like many military people, you may have never thought about diversity except during one of many briefings we are required to attend. Why is diversity so important to the military? Just think back to your first week in basic training or commissioning source. How many people there looked just like you, talked just like you ...
  
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• New 'Survivors' to Be Divided by Race
  By: Claire Bretana
  News Source: AP
  
  NEW YORK — The new season of "Survivor" will be a race among races. At the start of the reality show's 13th edition, "Survivor: Cook Islands," 20 contestants will be organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines -- black, white, Hispanic and Asian, CBS announced Wednesday. The tribes, as usual, will merge later in the season, which debuts Sept. 14, the network ...
  
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• Black cowboys' demise echoes in baseball
  By: Lois Hatton
  News Source: DiversityWorking Sports Articles
  
  What do the rodeo and baseball have in common? Rich histories of African-American participation that have diminished over the years. In fact, the disappearance of the black cowboy could provide some sobering lessons for baseball - before it's too late. ...
  
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• Division of uncivil rights
  By: Derrick Z. Jackson
  News Source: boston.com
  
  PRESIDENT BUSH bragged last week to the NAACP, "I come from a family committed to civil rights." He said Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. were part of America's "second founding, the civil rights movement." He talked about his recent tour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis with the prime minister of Japan. "If you haven't been there, you ought to ...
  
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• 'Gangsta lit' poisons black audiences
  By: Commentary by Yolanda Young
  News Source: USAToday Via Yahoo! News
  
  Gangsta rapper 50 Cent has partnered with MTV/Pocket Books to create graphic novels as explicit as his lyrics: "They say I don't sound like a killer well how a killer sound? I bet I grab a foe pound and back that ass down." (I'm A Hustler 2000). "Fitty" will fit right in to the gangsta lit/ghetto fiction/street lit genre in which venereal disease and automatic handguns ar ...
  
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• Bush doesn't measure up to NAACP expectations
  By: Derrick Z. Jackson
  News Source: boston.com
  
  WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT BUSH broke his boycott of the NAACP by copying the speech he gave to the nation's oldest civil rights group as a candidate in 2000. On Thursday, Bush said: "I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party. . . . I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African-American community. . . . We n ...
  
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• Diversity next door: Rogers Park’s mix of races and ethnicities is a rarity in Chicago neighborhoods
  By: Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, RedEye
  News Source: chicagotribune.com
  
  A modest beauty salon on a busy Rogers Park street is a snapshot of what diversity means in this neighborhood. Outside, Salon City’s signs are in Spanish, announcing bargains on cortes de pelo (haircuts). Inside, owner Nighat Jamal, who is Pakistani, leans over a salon chair with a white thread dangling from her mouth, shaping a customer’s eyebrows using a threading technique common in India ...
  
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• There’s no easy path to diversity
  By: JASON WHITLOCK, The Kansas Cit
  News Source: The Kansas City Star
  
  Sometimes I enjoy testing the limits of my right to speak freely. Today is one of those days. Recently, Richard Lapchick, the brains behind the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, released his report on American newspapers’ progress toward racial and gender diversification of the employees who produce sports sections. The Associated Press Sports Edito ...
  
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• Brain Activity Reflects Complexity Of Responses To Other-race Faces
  By: Harvard University
  News Source: Science Daily
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Psychologists have found that the amygdala, a subcortical region of the brain involved in emotional responses, is associated with a measure of unconscious race bias, especially when responding to faces presented subliminally. Their research also indicates that other higher areas of the brain that are involved in deliberative thought processes can moderate the amygdala activi ...
  
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• Jill Scott urges better portrayal for women
  By: KRISTIE RIEKEN, Associated Pre
  News Source: Associated Press Via Yahoo! News
  
  HOUSTON - The portrayal of black women in popular music and videos is too often degrading and the black community must find a way to change these images, best-selling singer Jill Scott said Monday. "It is dirty, inappropriate, inadequate, unhealthy and polluted," Scott said. "We can demand more." Scott spoke before a panel that discussed the issue took the stage at th ...
  
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• Driving through barriers
  By: Angelique S. Chengelis / The D
  News Source: DetNews.com
  
  Black NASCAR racer will be 1st on Mich. Track in 20 years "I'm a race car driver who happens to be black. I don't focus on things of that nature. I'm focused in on just how fast I can be at that next race," says Bill Lester, sharing a laugh with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Lester will make his second career NASCAR Nextel Cup start Sunday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Se ...
  
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• I Am Not An African - American
  By: Tamika Johnson
  News Source: iSnare Articles
  
  I am not an African-American. Don’t call me an African –American. I’m an American plain and simple. I was born here as were my parents and grandparents and you would have to search many a generation back before you found anyone in my family who originated from the continent of Africa. It’s time black people in this country stop trying to identify with a land whose culture is not their own. ...
  
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• Concerns raised over racism during Cup
  By: DiversityWorking.com Staff
  News Source: DiversityWorking.com African American News
  
  In Germany and several other European nations, crowds shower minority players with racial insults at times. Several of the U.S. team's African-American players who compete professionally in European leagues say they have been targets of discrimination and verbal and even physical abuse because of their race — on and off the field. There are concerns about how racial incidents might affect the W ...
  
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• On blacks in baseball
  By: Teddy Tannenbaum
  News Source: The Boston Globe
  
  WHEN MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball in 1997 retired the number 42 worn by Jackie Robinson, it honored the 50th anniversary of his breaking the sport's color barrier. But as baseball's Hall of Fame prepares this summer to honor more black players from the past, it's worth remembering that Robinson was not the first black to play in the majors, but the first to do so since 1900. It has been almost 60 y ...
  
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• Double standard in singling out Bonds with asterisks
  By: Jeff Zillgitt
  News Source: USAToday Sports
  
  During an interview with Jim Gray on ESPN, San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds said if Major League Baseball put an asterisk next to his home run numbers, "It would hurt. I would be disappointed." Barry Bonds does not deserve an asterisk unless baseball can determine which Hall of Famers and record holders did or did not use performance-enhancing substances and amphetamines. ...
  
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• Commentary: Black History More Than Check in EEO Box
  By: Dr. Frank N. Schubert, Special
  News Source: DefenseLINK News
  
  WASHINGTON -- I have been involved in the study of black history for over 30 years. Over that time, I've written a number of articles and three books about Buffalo Soldiers, the black regular Army troopers who served during the Indian wars and the early years of the 20th century. When I started, there was a February commemoration known as "Negro History Week," which Carter G. Wo ...
  
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• Mexico Welcomed Fugitive Slaves and African American Job Seekers - Part One
  By: Ron Wilkins, Patrice Lumumba C
  News Source: Insight News
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - There are of course, many angles from which to view the escalating immigration debate. Mexican immigrants, who constitute the largest share of the undocumented, have a unique history with the African population inside the United States. As the Black community weighs-in on this very contentious issue, it becomes necessary for us ( both black and brown) to review the history that ...
  
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• Make every month Black History Month
  By: Bill Russell
  News Source: boston.com
  
  I OFTEN WONDER how many people ask themselves, "Do we really need a Black History Month?" Although it seems inconceivable in this day and age, a great number of people still exist who do not believe there should be an entire month devoted to African-American culture. ...
  
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• Are we keeping his dream alive
  By: DiversityWorking staff
  News Source: Saratogian.com
  
  'His words were poetry,' Morgan said Monday to a crowd of around 40 people at the Saratoga Springs Public Library. 'Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a visionary.' In remembrance of King, the event was organized and sponsored by the Saratoga Peace Alliance. It offered songs and a film, 'A Force More Powerful: Civil Rights Movement.' Morgan mixed music with words in her 'Twentieth Century Pri ...
  
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• Head of African-American museum steeped in NW history
  By: DiversityWorking staff
  News Source: Oregon Live.com
  
  The self-educated family patriarch was a barber and federal court librarian among other things, and went on to become one of this city's most prominent black leaders, helping found First African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Central District. Now his grandson has been appointed director of the much-anticipated Northwest African American Museum, slated to open in early 2007. Carver Gay ...
  
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• Haywood remembers King's legacy: African-American community says equality is still an issue
  By: DiversityWorking staff
  News Source: Citizen-Times.com
  
  LAKE JUNALUSKA - When the Rev. Herman E. Thomas was a young man in Western North Carolina 50 years ago, jobs and education were scarce. It wasn't because his native Swain County was too poor to build a school or because work was hard to find. It was because he was an African-American living in Appalachia before the Civil Rights Movement. The mountains that he loved as a child offered no oppo ...
  
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• The Accomplished Senior-Year Resume and Cover Letter
  By: Linda Bates Parker
  News Source: The Black Collegian Online
  
  As an African-American college student, you may have come to college with goals of attaining a degree and snaring an exciting and lucrative position upon graduation. This article is written to help you look specifically at your resume as a developing marketing tool that must be strengthened each year of college, to help you gain the competitive edge in today’s and tomorrow's job marke ...
  
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• Growing numbers of black women affected by AIDS
  By: Billy Watkins
  News Source: The Louisiana Weekly
  
  Recent statistics reveal black women represent almost 70 percent of new HIV cases in the United States each year. In Mississippi, black women represent about 25 percent of the new HIV cases, health officials said. As of Dec. 1, 2003, Mississippi had 7,387 residents living with HIV. Of those, 1,072 are males and 2,314 are female. Another 4,001 of those are considered transgender. Many Am ...
  
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• The other side of human trafficking
  By: Habiba Adamu
  News Source: AllAfrica.com
  
  For the traffickers, agents and other trafficked victims who were lucky and became independent of their madams, human traffi-cking is a lucrative business. But for the women and children who in most cases fall victims of being trafficked, human trafficking is another form of modern slavery leaving in bondage. For many years now Nigeria has been centred transit and destination coun-try on hum ...
  
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• Brown v. Board of Education
  By: William L. Taylor
  News Source: Center for American Progress
  
  In December 1954, I landed the job that would shape my entire professional career. In May of that year, the Supreme Court had decided unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that laws and policies that called for racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection guarantees of the United States Constitution. The decision mandated a huge change in the status of black citizens. ...
  
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• Is Diversity Working?
  By: Robert J. Grossman
  News Source: HR Magazine
  
  Diversity is the latest tool in the evolving world of race relations, but is it the best? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 fixed a spotlight on racial issues. Then came affirmative action, attempting to bring equity to the workplace. Now diversity is the latest effort at improving interracial representation and relations at work. But is diversity working? As it grows to include the wide varie ...
  
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• TV one reaches for old favorites in effort to draw black audience
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: Sunspot.net
  
  Former Discovery Channel head Jonathan Rodgers aims to reach out to the immense African-American viewing public by launching TV one, the newest African-American-oriented channel, in cooperation with media giants Comcast and Radio One. TV one advocates balanced programming, airing old sitcoms like “Good Times” and “227”, public affairs segments, lifestyle and cooking programs (to be hosted b ...
  
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• NFL diversity policy works
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: Dailydemocrat.com
  
  The hiring of 5 African-American head coaches is a strong testament that the NFL diversity policy has been effective. After the measures taken by the NFL, like fining Detroit Lions President Matt Millen for not interviewing minority candidates, and the memo from the NFL diversity committee reiterating the policy that teams are required to include at least one minority in their interviews, the l ...
  
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• Sharpton vs Dean
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: ABC News (www.abcnews.com)
  
  Associated Press’ report entitled “Sharpton Blasts Dean on Race in Debate” discusses what transpired in the campaign debate between Reverend Al Sharpton and Vermont Governor Howard Dean, both presidential aspirants in the coming elections. This debate, labeled as the “Brown and Black Presidential Forum”, was “designed to focus the contenders on issues of concern to minorities” Meanwhile, Sharpt ...
  
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• On Domestic Training
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: St. Petersburg Times (www.sptimes.com)
  
  Bill Maxwell’s article, “On Campus, Grim Statistics for African-American Men” shows readers with deterring but earnest facts about the black race and education. As reported by the American Council on Education in 2000, 25% of the black male population between 18-24 years old attends college, and only 36% of their female counterpart study higher education. The rate of graduating black men is als ...
  
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• Black lawyer’s book aims to counter bias in courts
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: Buffalo News (www.buffalonews.com)
  
  Lou Michel’s article “Black lawyer’s book aims to counter bias in courts” tells the story of the conception of a book called “Fighting for your Life: An African-American’s Criminal Justice Survival Guide”, written by a black lawyer named John V. Elmore. This handbook aims to attenuate courtroom discrimination against African-Americans by presenting a detailed explanation of the present judiciar ...
  
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• Diversity window closing for Barbour
  By: DiversityWorking Staff
  News Source: The Clarion Ledger (www.clarionledger.com)
  
  Last November, newly elected Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour appeared to be the epitome of a politician who empathizes with diversity by naming African American lawyer and Democrat Reuben Anderson as his transition team co-chairman. Though Barbour was not his choice for the governor position, Anderson joined the team because he believes that “diversity will be a part of his (Barbour) adminis ...
  
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