The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

(latimes.com) Mahone was one of seven children of Yolanda Mahone and her husband Wilbert, a Boeing line supervisor. The couple had moved their family to Georgia from Compton four years ago because “we had sons and we didn’t want them to be killed,” said Yolanda Mahone. Mahone spent his teenage years in Georgia. But hunger […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

(sfgate.com) Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post and a former reporter for the Oakland Tribune, was slain by a masked gunman on a downtown Oakland street Thursday, police said. Bailey, 57, was shot shortly before 7:30 a.m. on 14th Street near Alice Street while walking to work, police said. Paramedics were unable to revive […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Black Enterprise magazine has a section in its online version called “Entrepreneur of the Week”. Check it out often for a regular dose of encouragement you need to do the same thing. [link]

Pius Kamau of Denver doesn’t think so. Here is some of what he has to say on the subject. (denverpost.com) To understand the value of community support, all one has to do is listen to the Spanish-language stations on the radio dial and watch the many Spanish-language TV stations. As the national black media fade, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…