What would you ask President Obama?

Tomorrow, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address at 9:00 p.m. ET. During that speech, he’ll lay out his vision for an America where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, where everyone does their fair share, and where everyone is held accountable for what they do.

There is a range of ways to get involved with this year’s State of the Union address. . . . .

The New York Times

Blacks are about twice as likely as whites to wind up in the more onerous and costly form of consumer bankruptcy as they try to dig out from their debts, a new study has found.

The disparity persisted even when the researchers adjusted for income, homeownership, assets and education. The evidence suggested that lawyers were disproportionately steering blacks into a process that was not as good for them financially, in part because of biases, whether conscious or unconscious.

A Widespread Pattern

See Full Article

See Occupy Photos

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Celebration:  Program

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Celebration:  Photos

Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Unity March 2012

Premarch Rally Spokane Convention Center:   Photos

Unity March – Main Street:  Photos

Postmarch Youth Rally Riverpark Square:  Photos

Democracy NOW Interview    January 13, 2012

“Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress”: Randall Robinson on His New Novel Makeda

“Makeda,” the new novel by TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, is set at the dawn of the civil rights era. The book follows a young man coming of age in segregated Richmond, Virginia, who discovers his roots in Africa through his blind grandmother. “Sometimes when we think of slavery, we calculate the economic consequence of it,” Robinson says. “But we have not calculated the psychosocial consequence of it, unless we factor in the loss of memory, which was occasioned by a deliberate and systematic program imposed by those who controlled us.” [includes rush transcript]

Filed under Author Interviews, African-American History, civil rights

Read online or pick up your copy on the stands today