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The onslaught of brutal weather battering certain parts of the nation over the past few weeks is beginning to take a toll on the health…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At least two pileups involving tractor-trailers and scores of cars blocked one side of an ice-coated Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Philadelphia on Friday, injuring at least 30 people and tying up traffic for miles. The crashes were reported just after 8 a.m., in the middle of rush hour and about five hours after […]
If you have to cancel school because of bad weather, two administrators showed us how to do it with style. Michael Ulku-Steiner, principal of Durham…
Hundreds gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan to honor Cathy Hughes, a woman who has blazed a trail for Black media in America. The…
For Black History Month, elementary school students at P.S. 201 in Flushing, N.Y., were tasked with writing about any prominent historical figure but when a…
02/14/14- Roland Martin talks with Al Jazeera America’s Ali Velshi, host of “Real Money with Ali Velshi”, about the Time Warner and Comcast merger and how it will impact customers. For iPhone users:
If you’re a man or woman in Georgia and you forgot about Valentine’s Day, don’t worry, because the holiday might be cancelled in your part of town. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday Valentine’s Day was cancelled due to the icy roads and poor weather conditions. The Sheriff’s Office explained their decision on Facebook: […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida man reacted viciously to an argument over loud music with teenagers in a store parking lot and fired multiple shots into their vehicle, killing one of them, and then drove away as if nothing happened, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the man’s trial. Defense attorneys […]
SEATTLE– Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday a moratorium on the death penalty in his state, saying the suspension of capital punishment will be in…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — It was a sight to make a classic car lover weep: A gaping sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight prized cars like they were toys, piling them in a heap amid loose dirt and concrete fragments. It happened early Wednesday morning while the attraction […]
Even though investigators discovered that Brent Thomas Posada (pictured) accused a Black man of shooting him when he actually shot himself, he was not arrested for…
America’s $1 trillion student loan debt and astronomical tuition costs have caused many to weigh the heavy price of attending college. As for the young…
