Black isn't enough
By Erin Aubry Kaplan

THE SENSE OF triumph was almost audible in the giant banner headline that ran in last week's Los Angeles Sentinel, the city's oldest black newspaper: "Laura Richardson Wins".

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Black vote for 37th District may be divided
By John L. Mitchell, Times Staff Writer

May 12, 2007 - A behind-the-scenes effort to rally support around a single African American candidate in the 37th Congressional District race suffered a major setback this week after the daughter of the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald refused to withdraw her name from the list of contenders.

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In Memorial of Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald

Shaquanda Cotton Free At Last
By BET.com News Staff & Wire Services

Posted April 2, 2007 - After serving a year of a seven-year jail sentence for shoving a school hall monitor, 15-year-old Shaquanda Cotton is a free girl.

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Beyond Vietnam: 40 Years Later

The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV
by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

It’s become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King’s death, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the slain civil rights leader.”

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Black Leaders vs. Leading Blacks

Who does the Media really represent?
By Russell Collins Stiger, Black Voters.org

We can't let the Media continue to make our life choices. Too many times we have allowed Fox News or CNN to tell us who is good, bad or guilty! I, like the rest of America once believed the images I saw on TV not realizing other images and interviews were left out to slant the story much beneficial to the corporations that own the media outlet!
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As President of the Sacramento NAACP Branch, I am encouraging everyone in the community to vote. Its important that we "Value our Vote and Vote our Values," which is the cry from the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, nationwide.
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