African Americans

Apr 4 2013

Hollywood by Choice

If you want to see an unexpected, delightful film that will have you dancing in your seat, then you’ve got to see “The Sapphires.”

Inspired by a true story, the dramatic comedy follows four outspoken, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission.

Apr 2 2013

How to stay motivated to achieve you fitness, weight loss goals

Feeling and looking good has become one of the fitness focal points of the modern era. As a result, billions of dollars are poured into chic megagyms that offer everything from yoga classes to freshly squeezed juice after a workout.

Stanley O. Williford  |   OW Editor
Mar 28 2013

Raising new life in the city where King died

Forty-five years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tenn., the city and various civil rights and labor groups will commemorate his “advocacy” of the 1968 sanitation workers strike with a panel discussion, the renaming of historic Beale Street and a march to the infamous Lorraine Motel where King died. The motel is now part of the city’s National Civil Rights Museum.

Mar 22 2013

Rex Parris sees profit in Earth’s most renewable resource

Owners of single-family homes in Lancaster may be required by January 2014 to have solar power systems in operation. It is a unique proposition posed by Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris to position the city as the nation’s foremost “green” community. This motion will be taken up for debate at the March 26 meeting of the Lancaster City Council.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson  |   OW Contributor
Mar 21 2013

Foul economic times and continued cuts

Morehouse College, one of the most distinguished historically Black colleges—with graduates like Dr. Martin Luther King, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, film director Spike Lee and others—literally shut down for spring break this week. As its 2,000 students took their break, every member of the faculty and staff was furloughed without pay as the college struggles to balance its books.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.