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Cynthia Stamps-Jones (pictured) was arrested Friday, after being accused of not reporting the abuse of a 5-year-old child at the Clayton County, Ga., elementary school…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the deadly assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, laying blame on the State Department, the intelligence community — even the late Ambassador Chris Stevens — for failing to communicate and heed warnings of terrorist activity in the area. The highly critical […]
DETROIT (AP) — Jim Caldwell got a ringing endorsement from one of his mentors when Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew was doing his homework. The Lions hired Caldwell on Tuesday to replace fired coach Jim Schwartz, ending a search that included a phone conversation between Mayhew and Tony Dungy. “Martin called me and said […]
01/15/14- Roland Martin talks with Rosalind Morgan, the wife of ex-cop Howard Morgan, who was shot 28 times by officers but sentenced to 40 years in prison. The Morgan family is currently attempting to have his sentence appealed. The family is being represented by Attorney Ben Crump. Crump and Mrs. Morgan joined Roland Martin on […]
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says a retired Tampa police officer’s praiseworthy career doesn’t offset the severity of the charge that he shot and killed another man after an argument at a movie theater over texting. Curtis Reeves, 71, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Chad Oulson on […]
Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is outraged over the misuse of her late father’s image on a controversial flyer that has gone viral. In one of the flyers, Dr. King appears to be wearing a gold chain, a gold watch, and is propped next to a […]
Five decades and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Ark., a national symbol of school segregation, the legal fight to ensure that all of its children receive equal access to education is almost over. But many challenges still remain, in Little Rock and across the country. Some of the city’s affluent […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Faced with a widening political scandal that threatens to undermine his second term and a possible 2016 presidential run, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie apologized again Tuesday, saying his administration “let down the people we are entrusted to serve” but that the issue doesn’t define his team or the state. On […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Reality in the illegal drug world is mimicking fiction. Kevin Abar, assistant special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Mexico, says distributors are selling methamphetamine tinted blue in the Four Corners region. That mirrors AMC’s hit drama “Breaking Bad,” which depicted an Albuquerque-based meth operation that cooked up […]
When Raeana Roberson (pictured) appeared for jury duty at the Queens, N. Y., county courthouse on Monday, she was taken aback when she saw “Negro”…
CeCe McDonald (pictured right) was released from a men’s Minnesota prison this morning after serving 19 months of her 41-month sentence, BuzzFeed reports. McDonald, a…
Racism may cause accelerated aging in Black males, according to a recent study at the University Of Maryland. RELATED: 50 Percent Of Black Men Arrested…
