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ATLANTA (AP) — Jailers in Atlanta have a challenge for inmates: Get past the new locks being tested on cell doors and win free food. Officials have been trying to figure out what to do about hundreds of locks which can be jammed at the Fulton County Jail, allowing inmates to get to each other. […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden tells a gathering of black journalists that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's economic platform shows he is out of touch with the nation's middle class. Biden said during his speech Wednesday night at a National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans that Romney wants to […]
Decades after scores of imminently qualified African-Americans first graced Fortune 1000 suites and four years after Barack Obama took up White House residency, the Southern Baptist Convention has elevated a black man to its highest elective office. If the Rev. Fred Luter's election on Tuesday to the SBC's presidency shocked much of the […]
Jade Bing thought she’d earn a living installing sheetrock and laying tile like her father, but today she’s on the path to earn a doctorate in chemistry. Davarian Baldwin didn’t want to become a factory worker like his mother, grandfather and uncles. Now he is Dr. Baldwin, a distinguished professor in American Studies at Trinity […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Victims of a decades-old forced sterilization program in North Carolina will have to wait on compensation because legislators did not include any money for them in a state budget deal, in part because Republican leaders could not agree on how to respond to the victims. North Carolina was the first state […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day after electing their first African-American president in a historic move that strives to erase its legacy of racism, Southern Baptists passed a resolution opposing the idea that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. Thousands of delegates at the denomination's annual meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday were nearly […]
HOUSTON (AP) — City police say three people have been killed and two are wounded after a shooting outside a strip club in southwest Houston. Police spokesman Victor Senties (SEN'-tees) says three people died at the scene in the shooting around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday and two others were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee is poised to vote on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over more Justice Department documents on a flawed gun-smuggling probe that resulted in hundreds of guns illicitly purchased in Arizona gun shops winding up in Mexico. The likelihood of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — As he testified last month at the first of potentially several trials of ex-Houston police officers accused of beating him during a 2010 burglary arrest, Chad Holley explained to jurors that his brush with the law was an aberration and that he was planning to go to college to get his life […]
MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade has asked a Chicago judge to suspend his ex-wife's right to visitation with their two children after a weekend incident that delayed the boys' return to his custody and led to her arrest. Wade's attorney, James Pritikin, filed an emergency motion and appeared in court Tuesday to have it heard, […]
A two block stretch of West Harlem once religiously strolled as a source of inspiration by such cultural deities as Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Billie Holiday is now drawing dimmed comparisons to such battle zone areas as The West Bank, South Africa and Wall Street in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 as conflicted residents […]
SHINER, Texas (AP) — Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists. With his daughter finally safe, the father frantically called 911, begging a […]
