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Despite a slight dip in the overall national unemployment rate for African-American adults, the number still remains unacceptably high as applicants continue to battle against…
As the New York Public Library (NYPL) system prepares its flagship 5th Avenue location for a $300-million overhaul, its smallest branch seems to be getting…
A 32-year-old man from Ewing, N.J., was charged with assault after being caught on video hitting a woman with a table during a diner melee…
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City police are investigating swastikas and hate speech scrawled on a statue of Jackie Robinson and a teammate outside Brooklyn’s minor league baseball stadium. A manager at MCU Park noticed the defacement Wednesday morning. The words “Heil Hitler,” an expletive and racist epithets were scrawled on the statue in […]
ATLANTA (AP) – Atlanta officials have reached a $19.5 million preliminary deal to buy the property of one of two churches needed to build a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons, Mayor Kasim Reed said Tuesday. The agreement to buy Friendship Baptist Church using money from the Atlanta Falcons amounts to a partial victory for […]
DALLAS (AP) — A series of shootings in the Dallas area killed at least four people and wounded others, but authorities said early Thursday that a suspect was in custody. Police were first called to a home in southwest Dallas around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday where they found four gunshot victims, two of whom had died, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will speak later this month at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The White House says the speech will be delivered during the “Let Freedom Ring” ceremony on the Lincoln Memorial steps on Aug. 28. No other details were released. Obama’s speech will come […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Those cells eventually helped lead to a multitude of medical treatments and laid the groundwork for the multibillion-dollar biotech industry. It’s a saga made famous by the […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An apparent bomb threat made in connection with a trans-Atlantic flight forced law enforcement officials and emergency personnel to meet the jet on the tarmac. USAirways Flight 777 from Shannon, Ireland, landed in an isolated part of Philadelphia International Airport shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday. Passengers exited the Boeing 757 via staircases […]
DETROIT (AP) — Mike Duggan accomplished something in Detroit’s mayoral primary that may never have been done before: He won as a write-in. By early Wednesday morning, with most of the city’s 614 precincts reporting, Duggan and popular Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon had clear leads over the rest of the field in the race […]
Harper Lee, 87, author of the literary classic, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” is battling financial exploitation and elder abuse at the hands of her former…
