Featured News... NABSW Partners with The Black Star Project’s Million Father March as a Sponsor August 01, 2008 Recognizing that community support and participation are keys to the success, NABSW has joined corporations, foundations and community organizations as a key partner of The Black Star Project’s Million Father March. Read More... Justice We Can Believe In August 26, 2008 Ages ago, a former Supreme Court justice named George Sutherland wisely articulated the guiding principle of all prosecutors: "The United States attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all, and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win in a particular case, but that justice shall be done." Read More... Scientists Uncover Skeletons Pointing to 10,000 Year-Old African Civilization August 31, 2008 A team of American scientists working in the Sahara desert recently announced the discovery of 200 graves which point to an early African civilization existing in the Sahara at least 10,000 years ago. The discovery adds support to the theory that not only did human life first evolve in Africa but that the first human civilizations also emerged in Africa. Read More... Arsenio Hall to Host TV One’s “The Black List” August 31, 2008 On Sunday, November 9th, TV One will premiere an original, five-hour special chronicling significant cultural movements and personal achievement that have advanced the black race and helped change the course of American history over the past century. The broadcast is entitled The Blacklist: 100 Greatest Power Moves. Read More... Black and Hispanic Middle Classes Said to Be on “Shaky Financial Ground” August 31, 2008 A landmark study employing the new “Middle Class Security Index” has determined that roughly 75 percent of Black and nearly 80 percent of Hispanic middle class families “are on shaky financial ground. The index was developed by the social research group Demos in association with the Institute for Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University. Read More... Regardless of Income, Blacks More Likely to Receive High-Cost Mortgage Loans August 31, 2008 According to a recent report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), minority consumers – regardless of their family income – are more likely to be given high-cost mortgage loans. Read More... Nation’s Jobless Rate Reaches 4-Year High with 1.7 Million Blacks Unemployed August 31, 2008 According to the U.S. Labor Department, unemployment in America reached a four-year high in August, climbing to 5.7 percent for the overall population. Read More... Study Warns Black Women against Sodas and Sugar-Sweetened Drinks August 31, 2008 A recently released study of African American women concludes that women who regularly drink sodas and sugar-sweetened drinks and juices are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes. However, the researchers found that unsweetened orange juice, grapefruit juice and diet sodas did not appear to increase the incidence of diabetes. Read More... Commentary: View “Blacks-Are-Defective” News Stories with Great Caution August 31, 2008 I have (and I think you should) become increasingly skeptical of “Blacks-Are-Defective” news stories. If you are not sure to what I am referring, these are the “studies,” news articles and reports (often dealing with medical and health issues) which tell us that African Americans are twice as likely as whites to have a particular disease, three times as likely to be victims of some ailment or four times as likely to died of some syndrome than the general population. Read More... U.S. Congress Issues American Blacks an Apology for Slavery & Segregation August 31, 2008 The U.S. House of Representatives formally issued an apology to American Blacks for the brutality and wrongs committed against their ancestors during slavery and for the discrimination suffered under so-called Jim Crow laws which were used to suppress African Americans even after slavery ended in 1865. Read More... Emulating Marcus and Amy Garvey: Lessons In Love And Struggle August 31, 2008 Each August, the month of Marcus Garvey’s birth, we focus on lessons he has left us, and in these times of stress, strain and troubled togetherness for so many Black men and women, lessons gleaned from his life of love and struggle in partnership with his wife, Amy Jacques Garvey, offer us urgently needed insight. Read More... INVITATION FOR INTERNET SURVEY ON IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL WORK August 31, 2008 Dear Social Work Practitioner: Your participation is requested in an important study. We hope to use the data gathered here to aid us in formulating future practice, policy, and educational directions in social work. As you are no doubt aware, immigration has once again become an important topic in U.S. politics in recent years. Social work practitioners are, as usual, at the frontlines. Little, however, is known about social work practitioners views on immigration and immigrants. Read More... Is Africa a Cold War Battleground? August 31, 2008 "The last Cold War left Africa on the life-support machine." Thanks to the dwindling primary natural resources, oil and gas, the West is hounding Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Sudan's al-Bashir, and heaping blame on Russia and China for protecting them; thus setting the stage for a new Cold War to be fought in Africa. Read More... Rooting Out Racism in Medicine August 31, 2008 Indeed, it’s obvious when you think about it that many more African-Americans died as a result of racist medical treatment in the South than at the hands of all the lynch mobs, bombers, and night riders combined. Read More... Sentencing Study Finds Disparities You’d Expect August 31, 2008 Blacks get more prison time than whites, and women receive lighter sentences than men, according to a university study of the state’s court system released last month. The Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, which examined 10,000 felony convictions in Nevada in 2007, found blacks received “significantly higher” minimum and maximum sentences than white defendants. Read More... The Biofuels Scam Part 5 of 6 August 31, 2008 The truth about all this, folks, is that the resources on our planet can only support a limited population, and I think we've over-populated the planet to a point where we're wiping out non-renewable resources at an alarming rate. This means a population correction is due. When there are too many people consuming too much food, using up too much water and burning too much oil, you can get away with a rapid expansion for a little while (a few decades, perhaps), but eventually reality kicks in and Read More... Whites Headed for Minority Status in August 31, 2008 In roughly 34 years from today, whites will no longer be the majority racial/ethnic group in America. At the same time Blacks will grow to roughly 15 percent of the population, Hispanics will zoom to approximately 30 percent of all Americans and whites will decline from 66 percent to 46 percent. Read More... In Memoriam: Dr. Gerald K. Smith, NABSW President Emeritus (1990-1994) September 02, 2008 With sympathy and condolences to the family... Dr. Gerald K. Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer, YouthVille Detroit, passed unexpectedly Saturday afternoon at St. John Hospital. Dr. Smith was a tremendous leader and pioneer in our community and will be deeply missed. Read More...

Other News... NABSW 41st Annual Conference - 2009 May 14, 2008 The Louisville Chapter will be host the 41st Annual National Conference when it convenes April 7-10, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. Read More... Institute Report Makes Recommendations for Adoption of Black Children May 27, 2008 The federal law mandating a “color blind” approach to adoption from foster care is preventing adequate preparation for White families who adopt Black children, and its provision for recruiting more African American parents is not being well implemented or enforced, according to a comprehensive report released today by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Read More... IBW 21st Century: State of the Black World Conference II June 08, 2008 State of the Black World Conference II Goals and Objectives · Focus national and international attention on New Orleans and the Gulf in support of the right to return of evacuees/displaced persons and their heroic struggle to reclaim and rebuild their homes, neighborhoods and Cities. · Provide an analysis of the socio-economic and political condition of Africans in America and the world as a basis for prescribing strategies for empowering and reconstructing our communities. Read More... Key Revision of Voting Rights Act Is Upheld Benefiting Blacks June 01, 2008 A special three-judge panel based in the District of Columbia recently ruled that Congress acted within the Constitution when it extended a key provision of the Voting Rights Act designed to protect the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities. Read More... Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act August 01, 2008 The Senate Finance Committee was set to mark up the Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act of 2008 (S. 3038) this morning. Unfortunately, the Senate adjourned delaying action on this legislation until September 10th. Read More...