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News & Views[Features Articles] [News Links]Featured ArticlesAs a service to our listeners, Heart and Soul feature links of news and views from around the nation and locally, to create an "information one-stop" to provide a variety of online resources. The topics that get covered here may or may not relate to a recent or upcoming show, but the are important issues that we believe deserve attention. The links we provide go outside of our Website. We do not control how these links are maintained. In time, some may be taken down or perhaps moved behind a "members online" area of the originating Website. If a site asks you to register before viewing an article, you may either sign up for that site or you may with to find a shared account via BugMeNot - a service that specializes in free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration. June 3Anti-Immigrant in Black Face? The picture in the ad immediately caught my attention. The photo was of a very dignified older African American man looking into the camera, very determined and equally pensive. Underneath his photo was a caption giving his name—T. Willard Fair—and the fact that he was the veteran of 40 years of struggle in the Civil Rights Movement. This was certainly enough to pique my interest. Beneath the caption was a statement declaring that the alleged threat to African Americans comes from documented and undocumented immigrants. He went on to suggest that any notion of legalizing undocumented workers was a slap in the face of African Americans. The ad is associated with a group called the “Coalition for the Future American Worker.” Fair’s attack is not surprising, although the virulence and historical nature of it is very unsettling, particularly because it is bound to strike a chord among many African Americans. Black America has been taking a prolonged economic hit since the mid 1970s. The economic reorganization which many people call de-industrialization has had a devastating impact on the Black worker, disproportionately so. The elimination and/or shrinkage of manufacturing jobs in urban centers has had the effect of hollowing out entire communities, destabilizing Black America economically, socially and politically. Rather than the flight of the so-called middle class, Black America has witnessed the disintegration of segments of its working class and professional/managerial class. Click HERE to read more. March 17The Bruce Gordon Resignation: You Can’t Know The NAACP If You’ve Never Been In The NAACP. Bruce Gordon's resignation as President (formerly called the Executive Director) of the NAACP "shocked the world" as Cassius Clay once said. It even shocked half the folk in the NAACP. Didn't shock me, though. As far as I was concerned, another one bites the dust. Click HERE to read more. Black-Owned Businesses Increasing with Emphasis on Health and Social Services. The number of private companies owned by African-Americans is on the rise. According to the 2002 Survey of Business Owners, the most recent by the U.S. Census Bureau, businesses owned by Black people now number more than 1 million, more than doubling over a decade. Black business proprietors have experienced an approximate 45 percent gain since the last Survey in 1997 and an increase of about 92 percent since the 1992 survey 10 years prior. Click HERE to read more. News LinksHere are additional national sources for issues and news that will be features as topic sources for Heart and Soul:
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