Featured News... 40th Anniversary Annual Conference Photos FLASH! Conference Photos Now Available on CD. Read More... Few African-American College Students Choose Black Studies Major The stereotypical view of the African-American college student as forgoing mainstream academic pursuits to concentrate on black studies is totally false. Read More... Does Childhood Abuse Explain Higher AIDS Rates among Black Gay Males? Why do Black male homosexuals tend to have higher HIV/AIDS infection rates than white male homosexuals? Read More... Are China’s Aggressive Economic Moves Good or Bad for Africa? China has launched an aggressive investment campaign throughout Africa which is rapidly making it the dominant economic power on the mother continent. Read More... Renowned Economist Claud Anderson Keynoted “Buy Black” Weekend in Detroit The originator of the Black economic development concept known as “Powernomics” Dr. Claud Anderson was the keynote speaker at the International Detroit Black Expo (IDBE) Buy Black Weekend II. Organizers aimed to use the event and Dr. Anderson’s presentation to “bring economic uplift and unity within the African American community.” Read More... Debt Cancellation. A Matter of Justice - Lets Push to Total Victory! In April we celebrated a key victory when the House of Representatives passed the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation - many thanks to you all for the persistent calls and letters to your representatives. We stand within reach of total victory if we can push the U.S. Senate to pass the Senate version of this historic legislation (Jubilee Act (S 2166)). Read More... 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... Black MBA Association Urges “Entrepreneurship” During Recession As the experts debate whether the nation is already in a recession or headed toward one, how do African Americans best prepare for the economic hard times. Read More... Analysis: Why Don’t More African Americans Know How to Swim? Earlier this year, USA Swimming released a survey showing that 58 percent of Black children and 56 percent of Hispanic children did not know how to swim safely. Read More... Leading Black Group Withdraws Support for Anti-Smoking Legislation The nation’s leading predominantly Black anti-smoking group last week withdrew its support from anti-smoking legislation currently making its way through Congress. Read More... The Biofuels Scam Part 3 of 6 Under a biofuels-focused agricultural policy, the same limited resources (soil, sunlight and water, essentially) can be used for only one thing at a time. You can't use the corn twice, obviously (you can't eat the corn and process it for biofuels at the same time), so you've got to make a choice: Will you grow the corn for fuel, or for food? Read More... Stepping into the World: Grasping for the Good This is a repeated and slightly modified message in pride, praise and honor of this year’s graduating Black students and the Black graduation ceremony itself. It’s not just the culturally specific music or the rhythmic movements the graduating students make as they march or dance down the aisle and their parents rise up in outrageous joy, and cry, clap and stand poised in defiant and dignity-affirming Blackness. And it’s not just the warm and liquid happiness that washes over the room like a rep Read More... Open Society Institute Launches Campaign to Save Black Men and Boys The Open Society Institute – a private grant making foundation – last week announced the launching of its U.S. Program - a new campaign to address what it says is the exclusion of African American men and boys from the economic and political mainstream in the United States. Read More... Number of Obese Black Children Appears to Be Leveling off For nearly two decades, the number of obese Black children in America has been increasing. But a study released last week by the National Center for Health suggests the trend may be leveling off for Blacks and other young Americans between the ages of 2 and 19. The study showed obesity was not decreasing but it appears to have stopped increasing. Read More... No Blacks Among New National Academy of Sciences Members Recently the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members. Scholars selected for membership are honored for their contributions to scientific research. Read More... New Report Projects Black Buying Power to Exceed $1 Trillion by 2012 According to RepotBuyer.com, an online service which labels itself “the online destination for business intelligence,” African Americans will have spending power in excess of $1.1 trillion by 2012. Read More... Maryland Sends Its First Black Female to U.S. Congress Democrat Donna Edwards last week became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the state of Maryland. She defeated Republican Peter James in a special election last Tuesday. Edwards is an attorney and community activist. Read More... Study Finds Blacks More Likely than Whites to Oppose Gay Marriage According to a just released study, by a 65 percent to 53 percent margin, Blacks are more likely than whites to oppose gay marriage. In fact, the study found that while the idea of homosexuals marrying has become more acceptable among most segments of the U.S. population in recent years, African Americans are “virtually the only constituency in the country that has not become more supportive” of same-sex marriage. Read More...

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