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WASHINGTON (AP) — To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat 'Hispanic' as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term "Negro" and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners. The recommendations released Wednesday stem from new […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welfare is causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign. But the program is a shadow of its old self from the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of "welfare queens" to assail government poverty programs promoted by liberals. Nowadays government cash assistance to the poor is mainly conditioned on work. And […]
Joshua Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Detroit, Mich., has made national headlines over his ambitious efforts to help his hometown rise out of its ever-sinking debt. He started off with a goal of selling $1000 worth of popcorn and lemonade and delivering a check of the said amount to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s office. Read […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mayor Ed Lee ended consideration of a tactic that would allow police to stop and frisk suspicious people in an effort to get weapons off San Francisco streets. Lee made the move after meeting with law enforcement officials and community leaders, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. Lee faced an outcry […]
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years. Brian Banks, now 26, pleaded no contest 10 years ago on […]
Calls for answers in the mysterious slaying of Chavis Carter intensified early Tuesday. This came mere hours after as many as 500 community residents turned out near his hometown of Mississippi for a candlelight vigil and to reminisce about the life and times of the 21-year-old victim as well as implore authorities to leave no […]
Investigators in Jonesboro, Arkansas say they are awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology reports to help determine what happened in a police cruiser where a young black man whose hands were cuffed behind his back was shot in the head. An incident report obtained by BlackAmericaWeb.com lists the cause of 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Tuesday evening execution of a Texas death row inmate whose lawyers say should be ineligible for the death penalty because of his low IQ. Marvin Wilson, 54, was sentenced to death for killing a police informant two decades ago. The high […]
Los Angeles plastic surgeon, Dr. Lance Everett Wyatt, was charged with six misdemeanor counts for allegedly videotaping unsuspecting female patients while they were undressed. Wyatt, 42, was arrested this past Thursday by the Los Angeles police and cited by the Los Angeles Medical Board. Four of the six counts are for videotaping the patients. The […]
Despite accounting for nearly one-third of the local populous, black and Latino students compose less than three percent of the overall student body at a prestigious Fairfax, Va. high school. This is prompting the NAACP to charge in a federal discrimination complaint that the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology board long ago […]
An Ohio landlord is learning the hard way that racism doesn’t pay. Jamie Heinn, placed a “Whites Only” sign at the pool in his apartment complex, and a former tenant, Michael Gunn, has testified before the Ohio Civil Rights Commission because he felt the sign was aimed at his 10 year old daughter. Gunn said […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers for embattled District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray have sought the advice of a crisis-management expert who advised Monica Lewinsky and inspired the television drama "Scandal." Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the mayor's chief of staff was introduced to Judy Smith by a mutual friend and later arranged […]
