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WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Eliza Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday. Black Enterprise said in a statement that Graves had been fighting gall-bladder cancer for more than three years when she died at Howard University Hospital in Washington. […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A 21-year-old college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died. Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's basement laundry room in a suburb of Baltimore, according to the Harford County Sheriff's […]
United Airlines, the world's largest passenger carrier, was slapped this week with a lawsuit charging that the gigantic, international partnership refuses to promote black pilots and operations supervisors. The suit is the third attempt within three years to seek legal redress for what plaintiffs say are a long series of workplace abuses predicated on skin […]
Would someone PLEASE remind New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that this country has a Bill of Rights? Apparently, the head honcho in the Big Apple hasn’t received that memo, even though a U.S. District judge tried to remind him. Around mid-May Judge Shira Scheindlin gave a group of blacks and Latinos class […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by the recent hazing death of a Florida A&M University band student, a coalition of black fraternities and sororities joined with civil rights leader Al Sharpton and others in pledging to work harder to end the practice. Leaders of the coalition told reporters on Thursday that the type of hazing to […]
Jay Hopson took full precaution in voicing all the right concerns as he strolled toward the podium and his place in immortality as the first non-African American head coach to ever call all the shots for the storied Alcorn State football program earlier this week. Just how much of what he said even he […]
For more information on voter registration and requirements, click here or call 1-866-MYVOTE-1. The nation’s top lawman and top black elected officials warned black clergy leaders Wednesday that civil rights gains made in the 1960s are under siege from a rash of new voting laws approved by some states and by legal challenges by […]
PARIS (AP) – Used to be that Venus Williams was the one who was highly ranked, the one considered a title contender, the one who would dominate foes so thoroughly that matches would be tidily wrapped up in an hour. Now 31, and figuring out from day to day how to handle an illness that […]
If racists were ever looking for a strategy to enslave black people again, they need only look to Louisiana. According to the Times-Picayune, the Bayou State now imprisons more of its people – one in 86 adults – than anywhere else in the world. Among black men from New Orleans, 1 in 14 is incarcerated, […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela's African National Congress brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in rural eastern South Africa Wednesday. State television released images of a delegation led by the governing party's national chairperson, Baleka Mbete, visiting the anti-apartheid icon's Qunu home with a barrel-sized replica of the torch lit during the party's […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions. The legal battles pit public outrage over sex crimes against cherished guarantees of individual […]
CHICAGO (AP) — After an especially bloody weekend in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's police commanders said Tuesday they have a new plan for combating street violence that includes going after liquor and convenience stores used by gang members as hangouts. Emanuel, acknowledging the city's "unique gang problem," said the plan would merge […]
