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TORONTO (AP) — Beset by scandal, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford faces another likely setback Monday as the City Council takes up a motion to snatch away most of his remaining powers. Ford called the effort a “coup d’etat” and challenged the council to call snap elections. Under the motion, already endorsed by a majority of […]
Jaguars defensive end Jason Babin pulled out a handful of dreadlocks after tackling Arizona Cardinals running back Andre Ellington. Luckily, Ellington’s hair was not pulled from the root, he tweeted: “My hair was not ripped from me head. Its jus torn What is wrong with u ppl lol.” Adding, “Hair is all good. Nothing serious. […]
WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) — As a powerful tornado bore down on their Illinois farmhouse, Curt Zehr’s wife and adult son didn’t have time to do anything but scramble down the stairs into their basement. Uninjured, the pair looked out moments later to find the house gone and the sun out and “right on top” of […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s former president, Nelson Mandela, remains “quite ill” and unable to speak because of tubes that are keeping his lungs clear of fluid, though he is relaxed, his former wife told a South African newspaper. “He remains very sensitive to any germs, so he has to be kept literally sterile. The […]
Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in a nation with a biracial president, where interracial marriage is more accepted and common than ever, Bill de Blasio‘s marriage to Chirlane McCray is remarkable: He is apparently the first […]
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities released the identity Friday of a Florida man who they say fell out of a private plane, and searchers continued looking for his body in the Atlantic Ocean near Miami. Miami-Dade Police Department spokesman Javier Baez identified the man as 42-year-old Gerardo Nales of Key Biscayne, an island not far from […]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday to the delight of thousands of children. But some adults protested vigorously against one element of the beloved tradition they find racist: his servant in blackface makeup, Black Pete. In the annual Dutch Sinterklaas festival, St. Nicholas arrives by steamboat […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will visit John F. Kennedy‘s gravesite and honor two of Kennedy’s lasting initiatives as the nation observes the 50th anniversary of his assassination in the coming week. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will be accompanied by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, at a wreath-laying ceremony at […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Miami Dolphins lineman Jonathan Martin has met with the NFL counsel investigating the team’s bullying scandal. On Friday, Martin and a companion arrived at lawyer Ted Wells’ Manhattan office building and later, he addressed a throng of reporters outside. “I do not intend this discuss this matter publicly,” Martin said. “This […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City woman who posted a Craigslist ad offering to swap her wedding ring set for tickets to a Chiefs-Broncos game has found a buyer — a two-decade season ticket holder who said he now can offer a more important deal to his fiancee. The Overland Park, Kan., […]
Johnny Taylor, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, spoke with Roland Martin on NewsOne Now about the crisis HBCUs are going through toto find…
Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, has resulted…
