Featured News... 42nd Annual National Conference Registration Off to Fantastic Start Please Register On-line now for Conference. Read More... First Lady Michelle Obama Targets Childhood Obesity in New Campaign First Lady Michelle Obama last week attempted to elicit the help of the nation’s mayors in her new campaign against childhood obesity. Read More... Little Improvement in the Racial Diversity of Medical School Faculty A study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan finds that minorities continue to be severely underrepresented among faculties of U.S. medical schools. Read More... Ujamaa and Economic Empowerment: Shares Work, Wealth, and Well-being In a world in which corporate dominance is so deep and wide-ranging, conversations and insistence on the ethical principle and practice of shared work, shared wealth and shared well­being in the world seem subversive in some quarters and quaint and quixotic in others. Read More... Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. Makes a Unique Donation Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, has made a unique donation to the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Read More... Globalization Not New: Look at the Slave Trade Globalization - or the ability of many people, ideas and technology to move from country to country - is not new. In Africa, it was initiated by the slave trade and given impetus by colonialism and Christian missionaries. Read More... African American Buying Power A recently released report finds that the “buying power” of the nation’s African American population will come very near to $1 trillion in 2010. Read More... Africa's Land and Family Farms - Up for Grabs? March 02, 2010 Over the years many Big Ideas have been imposed on Africa from outside. The latest is that the region should sell or lease millions of hectares of land to foreign investors, who will bring resources and up-to-date technology. Read More... Incarceration and Recidivism among African Americans As a result of tough crime policies and a discriminatory War on Drugs program, thousands of Black Americans have taken a fall from which they can’t get up. Read More... Economic Recession Having Major Impact on African-American College Students A survey by researchers at the University of Arizona finds that black students are having a more difficult time than white students in coping with the economic recession. Read More... Census 2010: Children Count Too We need your help to ensure that parents and child care providers count their babies and young children on their 2010 Census forms. Read More...

Other News... 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... South Carolina Lt. Governor Compares Food Aid to the Poor to Helping Stray Dogs February 04, 2010 The probable next governor of South Carolina created a national controversy last week by suggesting that government food assistance to poor people is like feeding stray animals because it only encourages them to breed. Read More... Message from U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves Are you up for the "Take 10" challenge? On behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau, we are asking our partners to join us in making history by helping to boost the mail back participation rates across the Nation and in your community during the 2010 Census. Read More...