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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ask Americans how race relations have changed under their first black president and they are ready with answers. Ashley Ray, a white woman, hears more people debating racial issues. "I know a lot of people who really thought we were OK as a nation, a culture, and now they understand that we're […]
The Obama administration has requested a comprehensive review and analysis of all federal inmate commutation guidelines after a recent investigation revealed whites are far more likely to receive presidential pardons than any other race and blacks typically fare at least four times worse off than any other group in even being recommended for such treatment. […]
A 22-year-old Chicago man set to play basketball at Iona College in New Rochelle was killed Thursday, authories said. Police in Chicago are investigating the shooting death of a former Chicago high school basketball standout Michael Haynes who recently committed to play at the Division I school. Haynes was shot Thursday and died at a […]
By day, Lloyd Morgan spends much of his time lending protection to those spread all across his New York City hometown. In other times, tragically it seems danger and heartache just won’t let him be. For the second time in a little more than five years, Morgan, who works as a private city security […]
Dr. Rahn Kennedy Bailey, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Meharry Medical College, has been selected as the new president of the National Medical Association (NMA). Bailey, who will become the 113th president of the organization, which represents more 50,000 African-American doctors, will be installed July 31 during […]
The funeral for Tameka Foster and Usher’s former stepson Kile Glover will be held on Friday in Atlanta. The 11-year-old son of Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster was taken off life support last weekend after a horrific July 6 jet-ski accident that left Glover brain-dead. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the funeral will take place at […]
MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida woman posing as a doctor was arrested Thursday and charged in the death of a woman who died after authorities said her body was pumped with unknown toxic substances during a buttocks-enhancement surgery. Shatarka Nuby, a 31-year-old mother, paid a woman known as "Dutchess" hundreds of dollars to come […]
Black bodies, white bodies. They sure make a difference in what stories make national news, and which ones don’t. Just after midnight, in the wee morning hours of Friday, July 20, some bona fide nut job sneaked out of an emergency exit at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. He propped open the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as the issue of guns shifts to the forefront of the presidential campaign, the White House and the Senate's top Democrat made it clear Thursday that new gun legislation will not be on the political agenda this year. Instead, President Barack Obama intends to focus on other ways to combat gun […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party. The Hellenic Olympic Committee said Wednesday that Papachristou is "placed outside the Olympic team for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic […]
Dani Simien was in his car, driving home from his girlfriend’s prom. It was a foggy Saturday night, April 29, 2007. The next thing he remembers is waking up in a hospital room. “I tried to move my legs and arms and I couldn’t. I saw all kinds of machines, feeding tubes, a trachea in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — People are inventing so many new ways to get high that lawmakers can't seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals that mimic the dangerous effects of cocaine, amphetamines and other illegal stimulants. The drugs […]
