Black Leadership Network Says Study Shows Drastic Measures Must Be Considered to Increase Reading Capabilities of Minority Children Responding to the shocking results of a study on educational quality in New York State, members of the African-American leadership network Project ...

California voters will go to the polls on June 2 to decide the fate of a paycheck protection ballot initiative. California members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 point out that the practices and tactics used by organized labor ...

Contents* Proposition 226 Campaign Gets Dirty * Congress Waiting for Proposition 226 Results * High "Business Community" Political Spending Debunked * AFL-CIO Official Endorses "Black Militancy" Conference Proposition 226 Campaign Gets Dirty; False Allegations Abound in "Paycheck Protection" DebateWith less ...

A United Way of America (UWA) report containing numerous false allegations about the effects of "paycheck protection" on charitable giving was retracted yesterday by United Way leaders after drawing sharp criticism from paycheck protection supporters, United Way donors and even ...

Contents* Government Official Uses Federal Funds to Oppose California "Paycheck Protection" Initiative * United Way's Misplaced Concern for Paycheck Protection * Recent Departures Hurt Justice Department's Campaign Finance Probe * Court Refuses Member Intervention In Union Settlement Government Official Uses ...

Spike Lee has done the right thing again! His new movie "He Got Game" touches almost every nerve and fiber of the African-American contemporary experience. More importantly, Lee provides a valid metaphorical perspective on that experience. If you want a ...

Dead men tell no tales, but the questions they inspire can be immortal. This is true for James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's convicted assassin who died in prison April 23 of liver failure at age 70. Alive and ...

For many people, The Black Man's Guide to Working in a White Man's World is going to be hard to read. This is not because it is a dry, scholarly tome, but because it will make quite a few readers ...

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, particularly when it comes to the issue of cloning. Last month, anti-biotechnology crusader Jeremy Rifkin endeared himself to many religious groups when he sought to patent a process for creating part human and part animal ...

In 1996, Teamsters union members across America gave up to $195,000 to the campaign to legalize marijuana use in California. This money did not come from members who supported the ballot initiative, but from mandatory union dues earmarked for political ...