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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates, GOP lawmakers and the lone black Republican in the House are returning donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof or giving the money to charity. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, an African-American Republican woman who was elected to the […]
A White House spokesman said on Monday afternoon that President Barack Obama will travel to Charleston this Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel AME church along with nine others. On Friday, June 26th, the President and Vice President will travel to Charleston, South Carolina to attend […]
NEW YORK (AP) — General Mills is dropping artificial colors and flavors from its cereals, the latest company to respond to a growing desire for food made with ingredients people see as natural. The company said Monday that Trix and Reese’s Puffs will be among the first cereals to undergo the changes. As a result, […]
More news is emerging about Emanuel AME killer Dylann Roof and none of it is good. Roof’s cousin, Scott Roof, told The Intercept that he believes that Roof was motivated to hate because he was interested in a woman who ended up dating a Black man. The Intercept reports: “Dylann was normal until he started […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said the United States has not overcome its history of racism and is using the N-word to make his case. In an interview, Obama weighed in on the debate over race and guns that has erupted after the arrest of a white man for the racially motivated shooting deaths […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was released Monday morning from a Baltimore halfway house, where he’d been living since his release from an Alabama federal prison in March. Jackson was released from the Volunteers of America halfway house shortly before 9 a.m. EDT and left in one of two black SUVs […]
06/22/15 – Roland Martin and Bishop Harry Jackson discuss what needs to happen for the South Carolina Confederate flag to be removed from atop the capitol dome. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
Even though they’re on different sides of the aisle, President Barack Obama and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney both agree that it’s time to…
FRIENDSHIP, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state. About 300 law enforcement officers searched the neighboring towns of Amity and Friendship, […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures Sunday to mark the first International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spread his mat among rows of people, including his Cabinet members and foreign diplomats, at New Delhi’s main thoroughfare, which was transformed into […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked in from the street or tuned in from home for the first worship service since a white gunman was accused of killing nine black church members. It was that same hospitality that allowed […]
Maybe Christon Scriven should take that age old quote, ‘Who needs enemies when you have friends like mine?’ to heart. We say that because Scriven, a young Black man, is said to be one of Dylann Storm Roof‘s “best friends.” Yes, you read that right. Not only that, Scriven, 21, says it doesn’t matter that […]
