WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Fewer Black males were enrolled in the first year of medical schools last year than 32 years ago, a trend that, if left uncorrected, could hamper efforts to provide quality health care to underserved communities, according to a top officer in the American Association of Medical Colleges. Marc Nivet, chief diversity officer [...]

  The Republican majority of the North Carolina Legislature has its sights on a voter ID bill. The bill, still being drafted by state lawmakers, would require voters to show photo identification before casting their ballots. A report from the North Carolina State Board of Elections indicates that nearly 613,000 voters, about 9.25 percent of [...]

Congressman Mel Watts, representative of U.S. Congressional District 12, held a town hall meeting on balancing the federal government budget at Bennett College for Women Thursday, February 21. The informational session was an opportunity for participants to try their hand at balancing the budget. Participants were divided into groups and given a workbook with a [...]

    – “You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s course. You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time — not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals.” [...]

Peacemaker Staff Reports The 2013 Presidential Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States will take place on Monday, January 21. This will be the 57th Presidential Inauguration ceremony. This date also marks the federal holiday honoring slain civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., celebrated on the third Monday [...]

The horrendous news from Newtown, Conn. has pierced our hearts. A black-clad man in his 20s armed with two semi-automatic handguns, entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School and made an elementary school for Kindergartners through fourth graders the scene of the worst mass shooting in a public school in American history. Twenty children were shot [...]

  Naomie Harris, “Skyfall” 2012 “Skyfall,” the latest James Bond action thriller and the 23rd James Bond movie, scored an outstanding $88.4 million last weekend, which is a new opening weekend record for the 50-year-old franchise. Riding that wave of success is English actress Naomie Harris, the newest Bond girl. This British-born beauty is best [...]

State legislators to convene in the Nation’s Capital with advocates, corporate executives, and public policy experts to discuss the nation’s most pressing issues affecting under-served and impoverished communities (WASHINGTON, DC) – Black lawmakers from across the United States will convene at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., December 5-9, 2012, as the [...]

LOS ANGELES – This week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group under the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services, recommended routine testing for HIV of all people ages 15-64. The recommendation, recently posted online, comes six years after a panel at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued similar [...]

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Now that the 2012 presidential elections are history, supporters for the Wilmington Ten pardons of innocence effort are increasing their efforts to build more overwhelming public support for the cause before N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue leaves office on Dec. 31. Sources say there is opposition to the proposed pardons, primarily from former [...]

WASHINTON (NNPA) – Despite efforts in some states to suppress the Black vote and predictions that African Americans would not turn out at the rate they did in 2008, Blacks overcame all obstacles and were key to U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election to a second term, an analysis of voting data shows. Exit polls show [...]

The 2012 Presidential Election was a close contest with President Barack Obama winning the pivotal state of Ohio giving the incumbent 303 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who finished with 203 electoral votes. Voters in Colorado, Virginia, and in the Midwestern states of Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin also played [...]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When she graduated from the University of Iowa two years ago with a major in elementary education, Amber Newman envisioned standing in front of a class of bright, energetic youngsters and providing them with the solid educational base that would help them become successful in the upper grades as well as later [...]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly all African-Americans polled – 97 percent – say they are unhappy with the Black TV programs currently on air. Seventy-five percent say they want more documentaries, 71 percent prefer more history, 68 percent desire to see more independent films and 59 percent would like to see more news, according to a [...]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., was released from jail on bond shortly after midnight Monday morning and left for an undisclosed destination. Zimmerman, who wore a brown jacket and blue jeans, was fitted with an electronic monitoring device before being released. He was carrying [...]