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Listen to Rev. Jesse Jackson's exclusive interview with the TJMS the day after his arrest. FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested yesterday with a group of protesting northern Illinois workers during an act of civil disobedience in Freeport. Michael Peery, a spokesman for Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, tells The Associated Press that […]
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — A church volunteer leading prayer was shot and killed Wednesday inside the chapel of a Georgia megachurch, and authorities were searching for a former church employee suspected in the shooting. The shots were fired just before 10 a.m. at the chapel on the campus of World Changers Church International, which […]
Demetrius Thompson, a convicted sex offender, was working at the Bear Creek middle school in Georgia. He had been a volunteer at the school for many months. His secret was only discovered after a concerned parent did a database search of sexual offenders when he noticed Thompson's face. Thompson was very active at the middle […]
Nearly a decade after five teens wrongfully convicted in the infamous Central Park jogger rape case were finally released and vindicated, the NYPD is again prompting gasps of outrage over its handling of the case. Top city officials have now filed a subpoena demanding that famed independent filmmaker Ken Burns and his Florentine Production company […]
HOUSTON (AP) — During often tearful testimony, the mothers of four children who died in a 2011 home day care fire in Houston recounted for jurors on Wednesday the despair and grief they felt in the wake of the deadly blaze. The parents testified during the first day of the felony murder trial of former […]
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — A man suspected in Wednesday's fatal shooting at a Georgia megachurch was once committed to a mental health facility in Maryland after facing various criminal charges including attempted murder, according to court records. Police in Georgia said Floyd Palmer, 51, walked into a chapel at World Changers Church International just […]
A Winnsboro, Louisiana woman who initially told authorities she was set afire by three men wearing hoodies, actually burned herself and also smeared racial slurs on her vehicle, law enforcement officials told BlackAmericaweb.com. Sharmeka Moffitt, a 20-year-old woman, remains in critical condition in LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, authorities said. On Monday, her mother, Edna […]
DALLAS (AP)–Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall metal-and-fabric cowboy that is an icon of the State Fair of Texas has been destroyed in a fire. Television footage showed firefighters around the structure Friday morning. Mostly all that remained of the figure was the metal structure. The fabric that made up the structure's hands and sleeves could still […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling. The court split 4-3, with the dissenting judges saying there's no distinction in state law between "highbrow dance and lowbrow […]
(Winnsboro, LA) – The NAACP urged authorities to fully investigate a gang attack in Louisiana after Sharmeka Moffitt was attacked and burned in Civitan Park on Sunday. Authorities have confirmed that racial slurs were spray-painted on Moffitt’s car, including the N-word and the phrase “KKK”. Authorities are looking into whether race was a factor in […]
STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court has blocked the scheduled execution of a mass killer convicted of eight slayings that jolted South Florida in the 1970s. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a last-minute request Tuesday night from attorneys for 64-year-old John Errol Ferguson, who has been on Florida's death row […]
It was only a matter of time for Donald Trump to stir controversy as Election Day approaches. Donald Trump claims that he has a big announcement about President Barack Obama. "I have something very, very big concerning the president of the United States," Trump told "Fox & Friends." "I will be announcing it sometime probably […]
