Members of the National Bankers Association. (Photo: MinorityNews.com)

In an effort to embrace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call to strengthen and support black institutions, a group of bankers will use the dedication of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C., this August as occasion to encourage people to open accounts in black neighborhood banks.

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A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that while performance on academic achievement tests for Hispanic students in the U.S. has increased since the early 90s, those students have made little gains compared to their non-Hispanic white classmates. more>

Leaders of the nation's largest Hispanic evangelical organization warned leaders of the Republican Party that their increasingly strident rhetoric on immigration puts the party at risk of losing an entire generation of Latino voters.

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"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>