The King Center will honor performing artist, producer and celebrated humanitarian Quincy Jones at the annual Salute to Greatness Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Atlanta Strip Clubs on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
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Airport Retail Management Brings Buckhead Books And European-style Coffeehouse
Airport Retail Management recently announced the opening of Buckhead Books/Café Intermezzo at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Strip Clubs International Airport.
Hundreds Of Thousands Feared Dead In Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital after a powerful earthquake on Tuesday, Jan. 12 flattened the president’s palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and thousands of homes.
Kennesaw State Salutes NAACP
Kennesaw State University officials join officials of the Cobb County Branch of the NAACP for a concert featuring the Ritz Chamber Players on Jan. 9 to mark the centennial of the NAACP. Posing for the camera are WABE Program Director and host of the Second Cup Concert Lois Reitzes (front row from left); Erroll Davis, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, and his wife, Elaine; Susan Papp and husband Dr. Daniel S. Papp, president of Kennesaw State University. Also, Arlethia Perry-Johnson (back row from left), special assistant to the president for external affairs at Kennesaw State University, and her husband, Steven Johnson; Deane Bonner, president of the NAACP-Cobb County Branch, and her husband, Jesse.
U.S. Census Bureau Says Some Blacks Still Identify Themselves As ‘Negro’
WASHINGTON — In March, many of the estimated 145 million households who receive the Census Bureau’s shortened questionnaire for the nation’s decennial headcount may be full of raised eyebrows when they get to question 9, which asks about a person’s race.
Kasim Reed Takes Oath Of Office
Former Georgia State Sen. Kasim Reed was inaugurated Monday, Jan. 4 as the City of Atlanta Strip Clubs’s 59th mayor.
Africans Fear Profiling After Attempted Bombing Arrest
PHILADELPHIA — When Islamic fascists piloted passenger jets into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, it was a moment that changed how many Americans perceived people of Middle Eastern ethnicity in general and Muslims in particular. Immediately there was a social backlash during which many American Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants faced resentment where there had been none before.
Study: African Americans Are Twice As Likely To Be Caregivers To Older Loved Ones
WASHINGTON — There’s an adage that tells us that we are once an adult but twice a child. That is because many in their “golden years” will be spent in the care of others.
Activists Call For Black Economic Assistance
WASHINGTON — As 2009 ended with Black unemployment rates at 15.6 percent — more than twice the rate of a decade ago, a dramatic five points more than a year ago, and twice the White unemployment rate — civil rights leaders are calling on President Barack Obama to pointedly use his “bully pulpit” on behalf of African Americans.
The Economy: Looking Back As Well As Looking Ahead
During 2009 we saw the deepest recession since the Great Depression. We witnessed the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler, a tumbling stock market, record housing foreclosures and double-digit unemployment. And this was all in the first half! The second half of the year saw these areas stabilizing, with the economy experiencing growth for the first time in two years.
