This week, ABS honors the leaders who took a strong stand to improve the economic conditions of black people. Though he is celebrated for his courageous stands against social injustice, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out just as forcefully against the brutality of poverty. In November 1967 he started the Poor People’s Campaign to [...]
Julianne Malveaux: Inequality Persists in African-American Community
January 10, 2013 | Posted by
A leading advocate for equal rights argues infant mortality, access to education and unemployment remain major issues of inequality in the African-American community. Julianne Malveaux is a labor economist, author and political commentator. She is also the former president of Bennett College, a historically black college for women in Greensboro, N.C. Host Don Marsh talked [...]
Texas Billboard Alleges That Martin Luther King, Jr. Was A Republican
October 30, 2012 | Posted by
A Texas group has begun putting up billboards saying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican in the hopes that passersby would follow suit and vote Republican as well. Claver Kamau-Imani, who heads the Houston-based website, RagingElephants.org, says he’s trying to court minority voters to the Republican Party. “The use of Dr. King, because [...]
Super PAC Ad Accuses Obama of Racism Against Whites
August 4, 2012 | Posted by
A new Super PAC ad is accusing President Obama of racism against whites by, get this, allowing his attorney general to say that some white people hate the president and attorney general because of their racism. “Implying that whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is, in and [...]
Dr. King’s Sweet Auburn Neighborhood in Atlanta on List of Most Endangered Historic Places
June 6, 2012 | Posted by
Joe Frazier’s Gym in Philadelphia and the neighborhood where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up, in Sweet Auburn, Atlanta, are among the 11 important sites at risk of damage or destruction cited by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in its annual list, to be unveiled on Wednesday. Sweet Auburn is a [...]
