African Americans – Page 86

Routine teen-aged HIV test proposed by doctors

November 28, 2011 By Joe Sims

The Center for Disease Control has called for universal testing of all patients between the ages of 16 and 64. However, the U.S. Public Health Service has not endorsed the proposal.

Supreme Court says no new hearing to Duane Buck

November 10, 2011 By Joe Sims

Duane Buck, an African American death row inmate in Texas was refused a new hearing by the Supreme Court this week.

Civil rights, labor alliance mobilizing black voters to repeal SB 5

November 2, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

The civil rights movement and the labor movement have joined forces in a statewide campaign to get African-American voters to the polls Nov. 8, to restore union bargaining rights in Ohio by voting "No on Issue...

Herman Cain: Defense of bigotry, the ultra rich and the ultra right

October 24, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

Herman Cain's main role is to give a kind of seal of approval to the racism, and bigotry of the Republican Party and he does it well. And right-wing Republican audiences adore him.

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth: A mighty tree for civil rights

October 24, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Rev. Shuttlesworth's fingerprints are all over the history of the Civil Rights movement and his dogged determination to resist the powers of racism and inequality were legendary.