Featured News... NABSW 41st Annual Conference - 2009 May 14, 2008 The Louisville Chapter will be host the 41st Annual National Conference when it convenes April 7-10, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. Read More... Institute Report Makes Recommendations for Adoption of Black Children May 27, 2008 The federal law mandating a “color blind” approach to adoption from foster care is preventing adequate preparation for White families who adopt Black children, and its provision for recruiting more African American parents is not being well implemented or enforced, according to a comprehensive report released today by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Read More... IBW 21st Century: State of the Black World Conference II June 08, 2008 State of the Black World Conference II Goals and Objectives · Focus national and international attention on New Orleans and the Gulf in support of the right to return of evacuees/displaced persons and their heroic struggle to reclaim and rebuild their homes, neighborhoods and Cities. · Provide an analysis of the socio-economic and political condition of Africans in America and the world as a basis for prescribing strategies for empowering and reconstructing our communities. Read More... Key Revision of Voting Rights Act Is Upheld Benefiting Blacks June 01, 2008 A special three-judge panel based in the District of Columbia ruled last week that Congress acted within the Constitution when it extended a key provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to protect the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities. Read More... The Biofuels Scam Part 4 of 6 August 01, 2008 Prepare for Mass Global Starvation So, to repeat, the food bubble is now starting to implode. What does it all mean? It means that as these economic and climate realities unfold, our world is facing massive starvation and food shortages. Read More... African-American Cultural Experience: Vintage Black Cinema August 01, 2008 Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) - Vintage movie posters highlighting various facets of the African-American cultural experience as represented in early film return on postage when the U.S. Postal Service issues the Vintage Black Cinema stamps. The 42-cent commemorative First-Class stamps will be dedicated July 16 at the Newark, NJ, Museum during the Black Film Festival and will go on sale nationwide that day. Read More... 34th International Education Conference: Tidbits From St. Kitts August 01, 2008 New Explorations of the African Diaspora: Journey to St. Kitts Read More... New Study: Rising Energy Costs Hitting Blacks and Hispanics Hardest August 01, 2008 Since 2001, energy costs for the average U.S. household have more than doubled and ever increasing gasoline prices have hit the budgets of lower- and middle-class minority families the hardest. Those are some of the findings of a new study released Friday by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) during a press conference in Chicago. Read More... Blacks Could Be Surviving the Recession Better than Whites and Hispanics August 01, 2008 According to most economic experts, America is either in a recession or very close to one. This economic downturn was reflected in the June unemployment figures released last week by the Labor Department. The civilian economy lost a whopping 62,000 jobs marking the sixth straight month of job loss and bringing total job loss in 2008 to 438,000. Read More... Radio One Releases Massive Study of Black America August 01, 2008 Black-owned Radio One Inc. and the research firm Yankelovich have released a massive study focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of American Blacks. Read More... Black Residents of Ohio Town Awarded $11 Million after Being Denied Water August 01, 2008 Residents of a predominantly Black area in a rural Ohio town were awarded $11 million last week after a federal jury found that local authorities denied them public water service for decades while whites in nearby neighborhoods received water. Read More... New SAT No Better Than Old SAT in Predicting Black Student Success in College August 01, 2008 Three years ago The College Board revamped the SAT college admission test in an attempt to make it more predictive of a student’s prospects for success during his or her first year of college. Read More... Millions of African Americans Will Be Disenfranchised on Election Day August 01, 2008 Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) - When Election Day arrives in November, the state of Virginia will likely play a huge role in determining whether Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain is the next President of the United States. Unfortunately, the vote tally from the Old Dominion will be illegitimate because the state will disenfranchise nearly 350,000 individuals who are barred from voting because of felony convictions. Read More... NABSW Partners with The Black Star Project’s Million Father March as a Sponsor August 01, 2008 Recognizing that community support and participation are keys to the success, NABSW has joined corporations, foundations and community organizations as a key partner of The Black Star Project’s Million Father March. Read More... Affirmative Action and Racial Justice: Requiem, Reaffirmation and Struggle August 01, 2008 It is clearly no accident or unintentional oversight that there has been no major marking or significant discussion, and in most cases not even minor mention, of the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court Bakke Decision (1978) which saved affirmative action, though in modified form, leaving U.S. society some measure of public claim to be still dealing openly, if not altogether honestly, with its perversely persistent and structurally perpetuated problem of racial injustice. Read More... Florida A&M University Removed From Accreditation Probation August 01, 2008 Florida A&M University, the historically black educational institution in Tallahassee, has been removed from the list of schools on accreditation probation. Read More... CNN Poll Says Conditions Have Worsened for African American Males August 01, 2008 In the wake of its series focusing on the status of being “Black in America,” CNN Cable News, in association with Essence Magazine and the Opinion Research Corporation, has released a poll showing many people think conditions have improved for African American women over the past decade but not for African American men. Read More... Once Racially Torn Cambridge, Maryland Elects First Black Mayor August 01, 2008 The Eastern Shore Maryland city of Cambridge last week elected its first Black mayor nearly forty years after racial strife between Black protesters and white police brought the small city into the national spotlight. Read More... Sixty Years after Desegregation of the Military, Senior Black Officers Are Rare August 01, 2008 President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order 60 years ago ending segregation in the nation’s military. But according to an analysis conducted by the Associated Press, Blacks are still grossly under-represented in the ranks of senior military personnel. Read More... 34th International Education Conference August 01, 2008 New Explorations of the African Diaspora: Journey to St. Kitts-Tidbits From St. Kitts, Chapter Two Read More... Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act August 01, 2008 The Senate Finance Committee was set to mark up the Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act of 2008 (S. 3038) this morning. Unfortunately, the Senate adjourned last night, delaying action on this legislation until September 10th. Read More... Invitation: Internet Survey on Immigration and Social Work August 18, 2008 Dear Social Work Practitioner: Your participation is requested in an important study. As you are no doubt aware, immigration has once again become an important topic in U.S. politics in recent years. Social work practitioners are, as usual, at the frontlines. Little, however, is known about social work practitioners? views on immigration and immigrants. This study is designed to gather this information. We hope to use the data gathered here to aid us in formulating future practice, policy, a Read More...

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