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Detroit Branch NAACP and UAW Unveil Plans for 50th Anniversary Commemorative March Down Woodward The Detroit Branch NAACP and the UAW held a press conference today at Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School in Detroit to announce plans for the 50th Anniversary Commemorative March Down Woodward Avenue. The 50th Anniversary...

BEIJING (NNPA) – When Julia Wilson visited China for the first time in 2002, no one had to tell the former Los Angeles television reporter why China was known as “the Kingdom of Bikes.” Wilson, who is CEO of Washington, D.C.-based Wilson Global Communications, said: “It was so different, especially with the bicycles. Imagine r...

Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr's footprint will forever be stamped in the Capitol as a result of two pieces of legislation that he passed during his 17 years in Congress.In light of his curent legal problems these two items may not be mentioned at the ceremony unveiling the new statue of Rosa Parks going into Statuary Hall on Wednesday, February...

Fantasia is not too happy with Jet Magazine right now. A teaser of her upcoming Jet cover made its way to the internet with quotes about the R&B singer enjoying the single life. Turns out that the cover the magazine decided to publish had not been approved by Fantasia. Taking to Twitter and Instagram, Fantasia commented: Thi...

Michiganders will soon have one more way to satisfy their sweet tooth. Bloomfield-based Taubman Centers, Inc. has announced that the Cheesecake Factory will open its doors at Twelve Oaks Mall later on this year. With locations in over half of the states across the country, it will be the first time the eatery comes to the...

Roland S. Martin, a nationally award-winning and multifaceted journalist, will be the keynote speaker when Ford-Employees African-Ancestry Network (FANN) hosts its 32nd Annual Black History Month celebration on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The event, “An Evening with Roland S. Martin,” will be held at the Adoba Hotel Dearborn (formerly the...

The blues is about feeling. It's about locale. A state of mind. But mostly, it's about digging in, expressing pain, celebrating the sensual, mapping out life in a 12-bar structure. Grant Lyle might be playing the blues, but there's a progressive spirit that elevates his latest album, “So There,” to much higher ground. While far from p...

Some people just dream of success, while others wake up and make it happen. Count Eric Hardy as the latter.As president and CEO of w3r, Hardy oversees a progressive information technology consulting and staffing firm that provides infrastructure, integration and analytical services and support to a wide-spectrum of national businesses and...

Nailah Ellis (pronounced ni-E-luh) recalls as a youngster the reaction people had after tasting the homemade tea her father prepared during holidays or at family gatherings. Their animated glee was a dead giveaway that, indeed, the beverage was truly something special. It began with Ellis’ great-grandfather, who was a master c...

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Bill Pulte, chairman of the Detroit Blight Authority and CEO of Pulte Capital Partners, unveiled their plans today for a public-private partnership that will become the cornerstone of the mayor’s next phase of blight removal for the city of Detroit. The pilot site of the newly formed authority is a recently cleared 1...