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Photo credit: (AP) She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of the first black president, and searching for a new way to engage and listen, Norris printed 200 […]
CHICAGO (AP) — In the cluttered office where he’s met with some of the nation’s top politicians and preachers, penned rousing speeches and planned civil rights marches, the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks so softly — and with so little enunciation — that one strains at times to hear him. At 71, he still keeps a […]
CHICAGO (AP) — In the cluttered office where he’s met with some of the nation’s top politicians and preachers, penned rousing speeches and planned civil rights marches, the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks so softly — and with so little enunciation — that one strains at times to hear him. At 71, he still keeps a […]
Is this a Florida thing? Perhaps to no one’s surprise, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in Florida recently revealed it never told prosecutors that someone did an Internet search about “foolproof suffocation” on Casey Anthony’s computer. In case you’ve forgotten who Anthony is – and you’d be completely forgiven if you tried to blot this […]
Now that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is gone from office, his congressional seat is up for grabs. Apparently he didn’t leave a good impression, somehow encouraging a convicted pervert to run. Former Congressman Mel Reynolds who was convicted of having a sexual relationship with an underage campaign worker in 1995, announced his candidacy for Jackson’s […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a south Georgia college student first learned from Facebook that their daughter had been found dead in a dormitory study room shortly before Thanksgiving. Now, they hope that Facebook and other social media sites can help solve the death of 17-year-old Jasmine Benjamin, which police are investigating as a […]
An Israeli army officer’s highly offensive, racially charged insult, aimed directly at President Obama, has thrust him into the glare of international media since the week-end. Beginning on Sunday morning, Lieutenant Sacha Dratwa’s Facebook page, on which he posted a darkened photo of himself with the caption, “Obama Style,” has been the subject of a […]
The 19-member task force licensed to study the tenements of Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law is sparking as much volatility as the law itself stemming from what some term as its clearly suspect recommendations. After more than seven months of intense investigation, the Citizen Safety and Protection Force has suggested only minor tweaks be […]
Glenn Beck, the right wing, Tea party sicko – who’s obsessed with President Obama – is at it again. Check this out. Beck’s so-called “work of art” known as “Obama in Pee Pee” – something he created by dunking a bobblehead of the president in fake urine – has been pulled from eBay after he […]
Caregivers often have a hard, thankless job. Whether they are taking care of the needs of adult parents while holding down a job and their own children, or taking care of a spouse, sibling or even an adult child with special needs, they often find themselves overwhelmed, overstretched and with little support or resources. TV […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Florida A&M University on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the family of a drum major who died last year after being hazed by fellow band members, claiming Robert Champion was a willing participant in the ritual. University attorney Richard Mitchell said Champion wasn’t forced […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The wife of a shoplifting suspect who died after he was wrestled to the ground outside a suburban Atlanta Walmart said Tuesday that store employees used too much force to subdue him. Vidal Calloway, 37, died Sunday after he was taken down in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Lithonia […]
