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GENEVA (AP) — The NAACP is taking to the U.N. its effort to ensure that all former convicted felons in the United States can vote. A delegation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was holding meetings Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva office in part to press the world body to […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding isn't going over well on the streets of New Orleans. People in southern Louisiana have long taken for granted that the flooding in the wake […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)- A California attorney has filed a lawsuit in Kansas challenging President Barack Obama's listing on the state's Nov. 5 election ballot. Attorney Orly Taitz has promoted the discredited notion that Obama is not a U.S. citizen in other states. Her lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court also says she's representing a registered […]
A new ad starring celebrities such as Eric Benet, Al Sharpton, Angela Bassett, Ryan Leslie, and more has hit the web with the stars urging people to get informed about voting and more importantly to register for this year's election. The ad is for the National Urban League's "Occupy the Vote" campaign in partnership with […]
Jacque Reid goes "Inside Her Story" with Chrystal Travis and David Wood about Wood's choice to birth a child via surrogate in India and raise it on his own as a single black male. Wood has acted as a father figure for his cousins and at 49-years-old has decided to have a child of his […]
Ben Crump, the attorney for the Trayvon Martin family, joined Roland Martin this morning urging people to be aware of the states where the "Stand Your Ground" law is on the ballot this upcoming November. Here's the full list of the states below: States that had Stand Your Ground Laws: 1. Alabama 2. Arizona 3. […]
DETROIT (AP) — A college buddy who was granted immunity by federal prosecutors testified Tuesday that he delivered $90,000 in cash to Kwame Kilpatrick in 2008 while the former Detroit mayor's family was settling in Texas after his resignation. Mahlon Clift said he gave $50,000 to Kilpatrick in Dallas in September 2008, after the ex-mayor […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now it's for real. Every time Mitt Romney or Barack Obama hits a rhetorical high note or commits another blunder, millions of voters watching and listening out there have the power to sit down at home, fill out a ballot, drop it in the mail and be done with the 2012 presidential […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles gang member is due in court to be cleared of a murder conviction that kept him behind bars for 19 years. Lawyers for James Edward Smith plan to ask a judge Monday to vacate his murder and attempted murder convictions involving a 1993 drive-by shooting. Prosecutors plan […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Georgia woman had little chance of surviving an illegal cosmetic procedure in Mississippi because the silicone-like substance that was injected in her buttocks caused the blood clots that killed her, an investigator testified Monday. Lee McDivitt, an investigator with the Mississippi attorney general's office, testified during a preliminary hearing for […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair Saturday inside a group home after police say the double amputee threatened the officer and aggressively waved a metal object that turned out to be a pen. Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in […]
Tony Dungy is a man with a mission: He wants to close the digital divide in America by helping millions of low-income families and African-American students access the Internet in their homes. “It’s critical that low-income families take advantage of opportunities like the Internet Essentials program,” said Dungy, who became the first African-American head coach […]
