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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida A&M University, still reeling from the hazing-related death of a marching band drum major 10 months ago, on Tuesday suspended its Torque Dance Team following allegations of an off-campus hazing incident. Interim President Larry Robinson said the university received an anonymous report from a parent Tuesday afternoon about an alleged […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Magician David Copperfield said Wednesday he purchased a newly discovered audiotape of a Martin Luther King Jr. interview and would donate it to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to promote the civil rights icon's message of nonviolence. Copperfield told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he purchased the 1960 […]
A former Georgia prison guard faces up to 25 years behind bars and as many as six of his cohorts remain under intense investigation amid an ongoing federal probe. The charges allege inmates were so viciously, yet routinely beaten the state’s entire prison system may now border on the brink of anarchy. The terse, […]
Graduates from St. Martinville, La., graduating class of 1973 sent out invitations for a class reunion party for "white graduates only." According to reports, the group decided it would allow for black people to attend the reunion, and the football game in an act of non-segregation but only white people could attend the reunion's after […]
Click here to listen to Keith Brown's story Dear Tom: I am nominating Keith Brown With odds stacked against him not knowing anyone in his family, he was raised in the foster care system of Baltimore City, Maryland. He encouraged himself through the challenges of life. He has full custody of his son and has […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Elfega Cazares isn't taking sides in the standoff between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools over contract talks. Like many of the immigrant parents in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, she knows her children stand to lose the most if teachers walk off the job next Monday. "It is very important […]
After more than a decade of law enforcement agencies systematically underreporting minority arrest figures, the city of San Francisco is now handcuffed and encumbered by a police department that has no accurate representation of actual incarceration numbers. All that can be assured is that blacks are jailed at a much higher rate than even the […]
Click here to hear Omarosa Manigault's recent interview about Duncan on the TJMS. — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," ''Planet of the Apes" and "Kung […]
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey supermarket employee wearing military clothing opened fire at the closed store early Friday as a dozen or more co-workers worked inside, killing two of them and himself, a prosecutor said. A law enforcement official identified the shooter as an ex-Marine who was discharged two years ago. The […]
Being the contrarian I am, I’ll be celebrating a completely different holiday than the rest of the nation come Monday, Sept. 3. Most Americans will be celebrating Labor Day; I, on the other hand, will be marking an observance that’s not even an official holiday: the 174th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ escape from slavery. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least five police officers are under investigation after a woman died during a violent arrest in which an officer kicked her genitals, police officials said. "I take all in-custody death investigations very seriously," Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. "I am confident we […]
Under the surface at the RNC convention, there is a concern about the count. Beyond the official delegate count for the Romney Ryan ticket, there is another count folks are expressing quiet concern about: the number of African-American delegates at the Republican National Convention. The interest in the numbers stems from a recent Wall Street […]
