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Monday’s “The Kelly File” segment on Fox News turned into a war of words between the host, Megyn Kelly and Dr. Cornel West. The three-minute debate centered on the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the various cases of Black-on-Black crime as Kelly kicked things off with discussing Peggy Hubbard, a St. Louis area grandmother who – as […]
MONETA, Va. (AP) — The latest on the fatal on-air shooting of two TV station employees in central Virginia (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Officials say they don’t yet know a motive in the fatal on-air shooting of a reporter and a cameraman from a TV station in Virginia. Authorities say they know the suspect, […]
White House corespondent April Ryan talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about Donald Trump kicking Univision anchor and Journalist Jorge Ramos out of his latest press conference and his current standings in the race. “The Univision thing was very bad. The unfortunate thing is that people don’t understand the back and forth between the press […]
Dick Gregory will be at the Sydney Marcus Auditorium in Atlanta for an unforgettable evening with the legendary speaker. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his thoughts on Hurricane Katrina, the massacre at the historic black church in South Carolina and much more. Hurricane Katrina – accident or on purpose? “As […]
Rev. Al Sharpton reminds people that Hurricane Katrina was a man made disaster in light of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy that hit the city of New Orleans in 2005. “We’ve seen the black businesses not restored. The black banks not restored. In many ways we ought to commit to restoring and rebuilding what […]
Roland Martin talks to Stacy Martin, the Louisiana Director of Black Alliance for Education Options about the state of education in New Orleans, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. “The concept of charter schools were circulating in New Orleans before Katrina. We’re now seeing the positive outlook of charter schools. All schools should be “A” schools, but what […]
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump engaged in a prolonged confrontation with the anchor of the nation’s leading Spanish-language network during a news conference Tuesday, first having the well-known news personality removed before allowing him back in. Jorge Ramos, the Miami-based anchor for Univision, stood up and began to ask Trump about […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News chief Roger Ailes said Tuesday that Donald Trump owes the network’s Megyn Kelly an apology for an unprovoked Twitter attack that “is as unacceptable as it is disturbing,” but Trump isn’t backing down. The Republican presidential front-runner-turned-TV-critic had welcomed Kelly back from a vacation Monday night by tweeting that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More jobs and cheaper gasoline come with a big, honking downside: U.S. roads are more clogged than ever now that the recession is in the rearview mirror. Commuters in Washington, D.C., suffer the most, losing an average of 82 hours a year to rush-hour slowdowns, a new study finds. Los Angeles, San […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One of the three Americans who helped stop a terror attack on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris returned home to California on Tuesday. Video from Sacramento television station KCRA showed a relaxed Anthony Sadler, 23, walking off a commercial plane at Sacramento International Airport accompanied by his parents. […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland moved the last inmates out of the dangerously decrepit men’s section of the Baltimore City Detention Center on Tuesday, state officials said, completing the closure of the notorious facility. The jail pre-dates modern penal facility standards, with some of its walls dating to the 19th century. It has been known […]
PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy held 29 students and a teacher at gunpoint in a West Virginia high school classroom Tuesday afternoon before he released them after negotiations and surrendered, authorities said. No injuries were reported. The student took a pistol into a second-floor classroom Tuesday afternoon at Philip Barbour High School in […]
