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Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, pastor of the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, was honored by the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. on Friday, September 28 during the organization’s 27th Annual Hall of Fame Weekend Conference in Atlanta. Dr. Haynes is a member of the 2012 Class of Inductees and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign. Nine years is a blink of the eye on a court where […]
Desharee Williams is one lucky young woman, but she worked hard to be. As one of the recipients of the Quotes for Education scholarships, the Bethune-Cookman senior is more than ready to take on the world outside her college campus. Quotes for Education is the joint scholarship program between Tom Joyner and Allstate Insurance which […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Chicago fan who came to Jacksonville for the Bears-Jaguars football game had his throat slashed inside a bar. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says 42-year-old William C. "Chris" Pettry died early Sunday inside Fionn MacCool's, an Irish-themed restaurant. Twenty-seven-year-old Matthew Hinson is being held without bond on a murder […]
Armed with scores of endorsements from powerful elected officials, key law enforcement organizations and deeply entrenched labor unions, veteran prosecutor Jackie Lacey is poised to become Los Angeles County's first African-American district attorney. With slightly less than 10 million residents spread over 4,057 square miles, Los Angeles County is the nation's largest and claims more […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a last dash for cash in the celebrity scene of California, President Barack Obama on Sunday took a good-natured shot as his own underwhelming debate performance, marveling at how his friends in the entertainment business could turn in flawless showings every time. "I can't always say the same," Obama told […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims. The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years and giving President Barack Obama a potential boost with the election a month away. The rate declined from 8.1 percent because the number of people who said they were employed […]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The chief federal judge for Montana plans to step down from the post and take a reduced caseload next year after forwarding a racist joke involving President Barack Obama. U.S. Courts spokeswoman Karen Redmond said Thursday U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull of Billings will take senior status March 18. That means […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in the tiny Mississippi Delta town of Ruleville to dedicate a statue of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer died in 1977. She was known for saying she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired." She drew national attention in 1964 when she and […]
DETROIT (AP) — A fundraiser for Kwame Kilpatrick has told jurors that she gave the then-Detroit mayor thousands of dollars that were supposed to go to his political campaign or a nonprofit fund. Emma Bell testified Thursday in Kilpatrick's corruption trial. She admitted turning over more than $200,000 to him, typically in amounts of less […]
Click here to listen to the TJMS presidential debate mix. Pundits were calling it for Mitt Romney Wednesday night after the first presidential debate between the former Massachusetts governor and incumbent President Barack Obama. But in the light of day, after analysts looked at the claims and counter-claims, it appears that while Romney may have […]
