The company that owns New York's first black radio station could be forced into bankruptcy if a court grants a petition from creditors who say Inner City Broadcasting owes them $254 million. Inner City owns WBLS and WLIB in New York and 15 other stations aimed at African American audiences around the country.

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VIDEO :: Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks about his fear of the City going back to the way it used to be before 1993. He spoke in in Borough Park, Brooklyn on Sunday, October 18, 2009. more>

Dr. Walters, director of the University of Maryland’s African-American Leadership Center, said it was not so much that Obama has an agenda, “but what are we going to do? We need to get involved in civic engagement” in order to ensure Black America’s entry “back on the stage of history.” more>

“No matter how much the statistics are massaged, the fact still remains that in 2006 more than half a million New Yorkers were stopped and frisked by police, about 90 percent of those people were engaged in no unlawful activity, and 86 percent of those people were Black or Latino,” said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU. more>

The Harlem Business Alliance (HBA), whose fourth annual Economic Summit in Harlem is partially sponsored by Columbia University and Washington Mutual, met with protest from local community organizations that charged HBA was in cahoots with Columbia’s expansion plans. more>

“Housing is a human rights issue,” said Nellie Bailey, the director of the Harlem Tenants Council who brought together leading activists for the first Harlem Anti-Gentrification Conference on June 1. more>

With his tapping of Judge Theodore T. Jones, Jr. to fill a vacancy on the state’s highest court, New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer has angered some members of the Black community. “Jones is a union buster,” noted City Councilman Charles Barron: “And to think that Spitzer made this announcement on Dr. King’s birthday is absolutely disgraceful.” more>

“Significant disparities in how similar crimes are treated diminish the public’s trust and faith in our criminal justice system and the system of criminal sanctions in New York has grown increasingly complex,” the commission reported. more>

“I have never been so embarrassed in my life,” sobbed Sharon Simmons-Thomas at a recent press conference in front of Macy’s department store. Simmons-Thomas was one of many people of color falsely accused of shoplifting at Macy’s. Now they’re fighting back. more>

Why are black businesses missing from the Internet? The reason is lack of awareness, said Don Rojas, CEO and founder of The Black World Today. Others discussed the difficulties of recouping ad losses, the economic slump, and strategies for gaining access to computers and e-commerce strategies at the Blacks in Technology summit. more>