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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton strove to close the book on the worst episode of her tenure as secretary of state Thursday, battling Republican questions in a marathon hearing that grew contentious but revealed little new about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. She firmly defended her record while seeking to avoid any mishap […]

Despite growing up in a two-parent household and going to college, 28-year-old Darnell Ferguson (pictured, r, with Louisville mayor Greg Fisher)  found himself struggling to pay the bills. To make ends meet he took a turn in the wrong direction and ended up being arrested multiple times, ending up unemployed and homeless. But once he embraced […]

Experts are now questioning what levels of solitary confinement are appropriate for inmates and whether this type of punishment is constitutional.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, and that “we, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously.” Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The pre-paid debit card company that cut off thousands of its customers from their money for more than a week says the problems are now mostly fixed. RushCard, a pre-paid card backed by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, said Thursday the “vast majority” of customer problems were resolved. Still, a “handful” are […]

A White South Carolina coroner is in the hot seat for using the n-word while reporting an altercation between his Black neighbor, Leroy Fulton, and the…

Jonathan Tureau was down on his luck after being robbed outside of his apartment in Houston, Texas. The thieves drove off with not only his car, but his wallet, rent check, cell phone and important documents. Tureau lost all hope of getting any of the items back but luckily for him one newspaper delivery man […]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into an attack on a Muslim woman in which police say a 19-year-old Indiana University college student shouted racial slurs and tried to remove her headscarf. FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne said Thursday that there is no deadline for concluding the investigation into […]

A Maryland couple has accused police officers of tampering with evidence of their alleged unlawful arrest last year. Juley Harris (popularly known as local artist…

In a page ripped from a Hollywood film about a broken criminal justice system, a judge in Marion, Alabama is under fire for ordering poor offenders to donate blood or go to jail.

Let’s face it. We need more Black doctors. With implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nationwide physician shortages have been accelerated, according to the…

Catrina Raiford, 38, tipped the scales at 955lbs and was bed-bound for five years, until she had her home bulldozed to free her from her bed…