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We now have 1,629 blogs ranked in April 2009 Black Blog Rankings…

An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself earlier this week after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem.

Last year we shared information about William Mayo … a young brother from Cincinnati who was wrongfully convicted of murder. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole reviewed William’s case in consideration for parole…

Villagers, did you know that we are less than a year away from the 2010 Census? This decennial count, mandated by US Constitution, of every single person in America is never easy, but this census has several unique challenges…

The Obama Effect is what we will call the coming deluge of African American candidates that will run AND WIN political races for governors and senators and future presidents.

An investigative report just released in The Nation reveals that in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina a group of White vigilantes shot and, by their own accounts, killed Black men who sought refuge from the flood waters in a predominately White section of New Orleans.

The African American members of congress never fully embraced Barack Obama during his campaign. Will they overcome that error in judgement and become relevant in 2009 politics?