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NEW YORK (AP) — Nekesa Mumbi Moody, the AP's music editor for the last 12 years, has been named the news agency's global entertainment and lifestyles editor. Moody will oversee text and visual staff based in New York, London, Hong Kong, Nashville and Los Angeles. The staff is responsible for coverage of movies, music, television, […]
It was as if someone cracked open a six-pack of Hater-aid this week and shared it with the political world. Birther talk, 1950s-style Joe McCarthyism, and plain old anti-Obama old sour grapes were front and center this week on the campaign trail, on Capitol Hill and the power corridors of Washington. Former New Hampshire Republican […]
MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — The parents of the unarmed teen who was shot and killed by a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer rejected the shooter's claim that the death was a part of God's plan. In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity televised Wednesday, George Zimmerman said he felt the course of the night […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Attorneys for three white Pittsburgh police officers accused of wrongfully arresting and beating a young black man ridiculed his version of the January 2010 incident — in particular the black man's claim that he didn't realize the plainclothes officers were police until uniformed officers showed up, too. Defense attorney James Wymard sarcastically […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.5 million older Americans already have lost their homes, with millions more at risk as the national housing crisis takes its toll on those who are among the worst positioned to weather the storm, a new AARP report says. Older African Americans and Hispanics are the hardest hit. "The Great […]
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The first victim in an Alabama shooting rampage says he believes the gunman came to his house in a case of mistaken identity. Bruce Bankhead says he was shot once on Monday night by a gunman who came to his house looking for a black man and using a racial slur. […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-illegal immigration patrols are taking center stage in federal court in Phoenix. A lawyer for a group of Latinos who filed a civil lawsuit against his department said in opening statements Thursday that the evidence will show that Arpaio and his deputies racially profiled Hispanics. "It's our view […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — FBI agents raided City Hall in New Jersey's capital on Thursday, a day after searching the home of the city's embattled mayor, his brother and a campaign donor. The FBI said it had a search warrant for several offices but declined to be more specific. Recently appointed city business administrator Sam […]
The annual meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization at the forefront of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, is going on today in Sanford, Florida, after a judge in Fulton County Georgia failed on Wednesday to issue an injunction to stop it. In this latest round of infighting in the organization […]
Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll might be a woman, but she has much bigger "huevos" than I do. Did Carroll really say late last week that she’s way too fine to be a lesbian? Well, let’s not put words in the woman’s mouth. Let’s go to the news reports, shall we? According […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman says he was not pursuing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin the night the teen was fatally shot. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the teenager's death. He made the statement Wednesday in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. When asked to explain what he meant when he told […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A plan a dozen years in the making to preserve the culture of slave descendants in four southeastern states went out for public comment on Wednesday. The plan was developed by the federal Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission and includes recommendations for preserving the culture along the coast reaching from southeastern North […]
