High unemployment among black Americans means the United States has failed to live up to commitments it made under United Nations human rights agreements, a coalition of advocacy groups charges. more>

The United States of America is the land of opportunity; however, opportunities are only available to those who are aware of them. And, for the most part, the Pakistani community is in the dark when it comes to the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the "stimulus package," signed into law in February 2009. more>

The New York Police Department announced yesterday that five recent assaults on Chinese women in the Lower East Side of Manhattan may have been hate crimes, causing great concern throughout the Chinese community.

VIDEO :: Police arrested three out of five juvenile suspects in a series of attacks on five Chinese women on the Lower East Side earlier this month. According to the NY1 report, their parents turned them in. more>

Community officials, who say they are not surprised by the low numbers, attributed the neglect to a host of factors, including a scheduling overlap with hectic Passover preparations, poor Yiddish translations of Census literature and the government's reliance on advertisements on television, radio and other forms of modern media that are shunned in these communities. more>

At a recent press conference in the lobby of Montefiore Medical Center's Children Hospital, Dr. Philip Ozuah held up a big bottle of soda. "Everyday in my practice, children come into my office holding one of these" he said. Doctors estimate that drinking one of those bottles each day adds 25 to 30 pounds to an average 9- or 10-year-old per year. more>

"For decades Comcast has shut the door to African-American ownership of channels. The stakes are extremely high and we are going to hold everyone accountable, especially the pension funds that have investments in Comcast. As far as we are concerned, those pension funds are supporting apartheid right here in America," says National Coalition of African American Owned Media President & CEO Stanley E. Washington.

VIDEO :: Bill Moyers spoke with FCC Commissioner Michael Copps to discuss the future of "net neutrality", the fight for more democratic media and the future of journalism in the digital age on Bill Moyers Journal of April 23, 2010. more>

Although there are still no hard facts regarding the allegations that cabbies manipulated their meters to overcharge their passengers, the suspicion persists widely.

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