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BALTIMORE (AP) — There are only three rules at the Kids Safe Zone: Sign in, clean up after yourself, and read for 15 minutes before playing with the toys stacked around the space, a converted laundromat in West Baltimore. Ericka Alston — who launched the center in the poor, crime-riddled neighborhood in response to the […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Some faces are pensive; others are proud. Some are known; others are obscure. All are black. Rare, striking and never-before-seen portraits of black citizens in Victorian-era England are going on display for the first time in the U.S., and organizers say the photographs have a powerful message for contemporary Americans riven […]
UPDATED: HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Houston police officer who was ambushed was shot 15 times at a gas station. Shannon J. Miles appeared briefly in state District Court on Monday. He is being held without bond. He was appointed two attorneys. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said Deputy Darren Goforth was […]
Roland Martin talks to filmmaker Keith Beauchamp about his plans for a Emmett Till movie in light of the 60th anniversary of his death. “This is something I’ve been trying to do for 20 years. It started off as research to do a screenplay. I want to make a film for the people and by the […]
Well if this doesn’t beat all, I am at a loss for what will. Police officers generally get suspicious if you avoid eye-contact with them; but according to one man, the excuse a Dayton police officer used for tailing him before he eventually pulled him over, was because he did make direct eye contact with him. Sheesh, talk […]
You may not immediately remember the face of this cute little boy, who looked directly into the NBC-TV camera and spoke so eloquently about his surroundings at the New Orleans Superdome during one of the most devastating events his hometown, New Orleans, had seen. Well, you certainly wouldn’t recognize Charles Evans today. A lot can […]
Frank Peterson, the U.S. Marines' first Black pilot, has died at age 83. Petersen joined the U.S. Navy in 1950 as a seaman apprentice
The man believed to have shot Jamyla Bolden, a 9-year-old Ferguson girl who was killed while doing her homework, has been arrested.
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Vester Flanagan constantly saw himself as the target in his conflicts with WDBJ-TV colleagues, leading his former boss to describe him as a “professional victim.” When the station tried to persuade Flanagan to get along better with his co-workers, he accused them of discrimination. “He was victimized by everything and everyone […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state attorneys have decided against retrying a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man after his trial ended last week in a deadlock. Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert Montgomery told the Mecklenburg County district attorney Friday of the state’s decision in the case of Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]
Lisa Johnson was one of the 11 Black women that were kicked off the Napa Wine Train. Johnson and a group of black women are part of “Sistahs on the Reading Edge,” a book club from Antioch, California. After a social media account of the incident went viral with the hashtag #LaughingWhileBlack, the Yelp reviews of the […]
Phyllis Montana LeBlanc talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the anniversary “I need Mayor Landrieu to stop telling the lies. We’re not back, that ain’t true. We’re back 50 percent. When you go into the lower ninth ward, which I did yesterday, it looks like Katrina just happened yesterday. Now we’re dealing with […]
