TheLoop21.com

More Time to Black Coverage in Talk Radio and Cable T.V. According to a study done by the Pew Research, African American related coverage is seen more in the media than in any other racial group. Even specific mentions of the Black community come into account for the higher coverage. Attention to the Black community primarily came through the focus on political debates regarding events involving prominent blacks such as President Barack Obama (something Meg Whitm ...

Black Churches Commit $50 Million To Haiti Four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50 million for Haitian relief after their devastating earthquake. The goal of the AABMC, or the African American Baptist Mission Collaboration, is to raise $10 million a year for the next five years for the investment in five health clinics, 50 schools, 500 churches and 5,000 homes. 10,000 churches are expected to participate which will help in relief aid. They hope to sa ...

Black Oyster-men Of The Delta Hope For Cleanup Work Hope In the delta, just south of the Belle Chasse Ferry at Beshel’s Marina, Black fishermen are clinging for hope that someone will cleanup their little stretch of the bayou. The fishermen of the Gulf can’t even get a break. First Hurricane Katrina and now his enormous oil spill disaster caused by the careless company, British Petroleum or ‘BP.’ Historically African American fishing towns have been struggling for every dollar that they have earned through fishing. ...

Black Media Ignored By Whitman She’s already skipping this Saturday's candidate's forum at the San Francisco Christian Center on black and Latino issues sponsored by the California Foundation. Invitations were sent to both Meg Whitman and Democratic Party candidate Jerry Brown in May. Brown immediately accepted, but the Whitman campaign only informed the forum's producers last week about Whitman's "scheduling conflict." She’s avoiding interviews and ducking the hard hitting questions. She refus ...

Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Cut By Congress A gap between the sentences for offenders caught with crack cocaine versus the dug in powder form are expected to narrow after the vote on Wednesday by the U.S. Congress. Offenders caught with crack cocaine were primarily blamed on the African American community and were also imprisoned more than their other racial counterparts. The measure signed into law by President Barack Obama was approved by voice vote in the US House of Representatives. Right now under existing law, the p ...

Judge Blocks Parts of Arizona Immigration Law U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled that the controversial sections should be put on hold until the courts resolve the issues, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ruling came just as police were making last-minute preparations to begin enforcement of the law at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and protesters were planning a large demonst ...

MJ Moon-Walking Zombia Quashed After Jackson Family Makes Complaint The estate of Michael Jackson has stirred up a hubbub over a moonwalking zombie that appears in the hit game "Plants vs. Zombies," newsvine reports. Game developer PopCap Games says it is removing the famed "dancing zombie" from the PC and iPhone versions of the game after the lat ...

Urban League Chooses Jobs Card Over Race Card at Annual Conference Don't expect to hear the words "tea party" at the National Urban League's annual conference in Washington this week, the Washington Post reports. The Urban League, which is turning 100 this year, isn't spoiling for the fight that the NAACP attracted after passing a resolution calling out "racist elements&q ...

Terrell Owens Agrees to Contract With Bengals The wide receiver reportedly gets a one-year deal with Cincinnati, where he will team with Chad Ochocinco the Los Angeles Times reports. ...

Maryland: Suspect Named in Possible Serial Mother-Daughter Killings ABC News reports that authorities are hoping they have the answer to a question that has plagued them since early 2009: Who killed two mother-daughter pairs in a two-month period in suburban Maryland? A break in the case of the murder of a mother and daughter. Jason Thomas Scott, ...