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Herman Cain is back in the news talking again and this time around the topic is the NAACP. Friday on “Fox and Friends,” former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that while he is grateful for the past work of the NAACP, the organization has “lost its relevance.” “It’s looking for its relevance in all […]
A new study finds that despite enduring more hardships and coming face-to-face with as much societal strife than at any other point in history, black males have now grown more resilient than ever before. Conducted by the National Institute of Health, researchers set out to pinpoint and identify all the protective factors most commonly […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida A&M University's president reached an agreement with school officials to immediately resign from his post Monday, after facing months of criticism in the wake of the hazing death of a marching band member. Last week, James Ammons had submitted a resignation letter stating his resignation would not take effect until […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across this city — a multimillion-dollar drain on federal, state and city coffers that lends itself to no easy solution. An Associated Press examination of the properties sold to the government by […]
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed on Monday, a security official and the kidnapper told The Associated Press. Rev. Michel Louis, 61, and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse, both Boston-area residents, had been kidnapped from a bus […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The photograph, scratched and undated, is captioned "Brother Jordan Anderson." He is a middle-aged black man with a long beard and a righteous stare, as if he were a preacher locking eyes with a sinner, or a judge about to dispatch a thief to the gallows. Anderson was a former slave […]
BOSTON (AP) — While family and church members prayed Sunday for the Boston Pentecostal pastor kidnapped with two others in Egypt, their abductor said he has had conversations with intelligence officials about their release. Jirmy Abu-Mashu told The Associated Press he kidnapped the Rev. Michel Louis and two others off a bus on a road […]
Sarah Palin must not have read or watched “Game Change,” the tell-all 2008 presidential campaign book and made-for-TV movie that dished dirt on John McCain’s disastrous decision to make her his vice presidential running mate. The former Republican Alaska governor thinks it would be a “wonderful” for likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to tap […]
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — An artist has removed a halo from a mural of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno amid the school's child sex-abuse scandal. Michael Pilato had put a halo over Paterno's image after the beloved coach's death in January, but said he felt he had to remove it Saturday after a […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin is again asking for a new judge. George Zimmerman filed a motion Friday asking that Circuit Judge Ken Lester be disqualified from the case. Zimmerman says Lester's comments in a bond order led him to believe Lester is prejudiced against him. The […]
Special Prosecutor Angela Corey has just released another round of evidence in her second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman. The report includes a first look at what FBI agents have turned up in their civil rights investigation. According to the Orlando Sentinel, at least 10 FBI agents have prepared reports. Among those interviewed by the […]
Desperate times are fostering desperate reactions in Chicago, where even before the calendar so much as officially turned to summer a spiraling gang problem now has the city wickedly on course toward recording the most homicides of any year in its history. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is championing a high-stakes, aspirational crime-busting alliance between the city’s […]
