The Tuskegee University athletic will file a formal letter of complaint with the NCAA in the wake of the school’s appearance in the South Region-1 Division II women’s tennis tournament.   The Tuskegee University athletic department will file a formal letter of complaint with the NCAA in the wake of the school’s appearance in […]

President Obama wrote a message to us today: “Five years ago today, a few thousand of us gathered in Springfield, Illinois, to launch an improbable campaign for president. The task was to build a grassroots movement capable of making the kind of change we believe in. You’ve got to see this video about that journey […]

Here’s your chance to meet the President: https://my.barackobama.com/dinnerwbarackandmichellevid In this latest installment of “Dinner with Barack” the three winners brought a special guest with them. Cathy and Judy brought their loving husbands and Regina proudly brought her dad. The President brought a very special guest too: the First Lady. In Michelle’s first “Dinner With Barack” […]

Los Angeles pastor Rev. Jesse Lee Paterson, an African-American Tea Party advocate, is becoming known not for his uplifting sermons but for lowering the value of women. The pastor is no stranger to controversy. In a speech made in March, the pastor made a continuous string of offensive, ignorant comments about women, saying that giving […]

More than a year after President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate that proves he’s a U.S. citizen and therefore qualified to be president of the United States, some Republicans still can’t let it go. A bevy of GOP congressional candidates in North Carolina are going birther, repeating some of the same old suspicions […]

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city’s public-employee pension funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission says Kilpatrick and ex-city treasurer Jeffrey Beasley received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. The SEC says that was in exchange […]

Police say a New York man who refused to pay a $12 taxi fare was carrying more than $5,000 when the cabbie drove him around looking for cheap cigarettes. The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports that a 68-year-old man had the driver take him to two stores on Monday. Each time he came out empty-handed, saying […]

There are 65 known white supremacist groups in the state of Georgia – racist organizations that believe a black man, President Barack Obama, has no place in the White House. And the hating is getting worse. Take Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo, a hate-filled resident who claims that he’s not a racist but insists on […]

President Barack Obama has become the first U.S. president to openly support full rights for gay couples, including same-sex marriage. The president’s remarks during an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts took many pundits by surprise, not because he supported same-sex marriage, but because his endorsement was direct rather than tacit. Some political observers had predicted […]

Florida police have charged ten members of a white supremacist group with actively plotting and preparing for what they deemed an “inevitable” race war by targeting various city buildings and marked dwellings known to be occupied or frequented by minorities for planned attack and ultimately total annihilation. FBI agents and a team of terrorism task […]

The NAACP is leading a coalition that has launched a 50-state, nonpartisan registration and education campaign in response to what it calls “an unprecedented and coordinated attack on ballot access” that could keep up to 5 million voters away from the polls in 2012. “When our community was celebrating in 2008 the breaking of the […]

84-year-old Nathaniel “Magnificent” Montague is a “chaser” of black history artifacts. Montague, a pioneer radio DJ, has collected 50 years of rare and one-of-a-kind documents, footage, recordings and papers in a private collection – 8,000 pieces in all. His collection is valued as being worth millions of dollars. His impressive collection started in 1956 with […]