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

(washingtontimes.com) More than two dozen senior D.C. officials were inappropriately given more than $500,000 in cash bonuses in the waning days of the administration of former Mayor Anthony A. Williams. “The 28 employees were comprised of agency directors, deputy mayors, the city administrator and senior officials in the Office of the Mayor,” according to a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

(washingtonpost.com) Our Radio One network consists of 60 radio stations and can be found in 19 cities around the nation. Taken together we reach over 12 million listeners across the country. . . . However, those numbers do not really paint the full picture of who Radio One is. Radio One takes its responsibility to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A University of Memphis student was killed in an on-campus shooting late Sunday night, a university police dispatcher said. The campus newspaper identified the victim as Taylor Bradford, a junior defensive lineman from Nashville. He was shot in his car at Carpenter Complex about 10 p.m. Sunday in what police said […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

(sfgate.com) Semaj Williams, a stress-management consultant from New Jersey, feels Brazil in his past, and his present. “It’s very clear to me that in another life I was Brazilian,” said the hulking Williams, seated on the shaded patio of a colonial convent-turned-upscale-hotel. “I’m sure of that: Brazil is one of my places.” He is one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

(abcnews.com) He is adamantly opposed to affirmative action, but for entirely different reasons than white conservatives who drive the debate by arguing it’s unfair to white people. Thomas says affirmative action instead has hurt blacks. It not only sends them into environments in which they are doomed to struggle instead of soar, but it also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

“Building a house on sand” is what comes to mind. (AP) WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children’s health coverage: people with relatively little money and education. The program expansion passed by the House and Senate last week would be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…