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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida man reacted viciously to an argument over loud music with teenagers in a store parking lot and fired multiple shots into their vehicle, killing one of them, and then drove away as if nothing happened, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the man’s trial. Defense attorneys […]
Even though investigators discovered that Brent Thomas Posada (pictured) accused a Black man of shooting him when he actually shot himself, he was not arrested for…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted Wednesday on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office, including right after Hurricane Katrina. The federal jury found Nagin guilty of 20 of 21 […]
We already know what a class act the Trayvon Martin Family is…and today they demonstrated just one of the things that made us fall in…
One of the most famous faces of urban education will soon be replaced. Geoffrey Canada, chief executive of the renowned Harlem Children’s Zone, recently announced…
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Police say a woman fired a shot into a Michigan restaurant’s drive-thru window after workers got her burger order wrong a second time. WOOD-TV reports that 29-year-old Shaneka Torres was arraigned Monday in Grand Rapids on carrying a concealed weapon, discharging a firearm and another gun charge. The shot was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is obtaining commitments from foundations, businesses and community groups to help young minority men improve their employment opportunities and to intervene before some of them get sucked into the criminal justice system. Obama is launching the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative Thursday, matching his State of the Union pledge to […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys will make closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of a Florida man charged with fatally shooting teenager Jordan Davis after an argument over loud music. Both sides were to sum up their cases in the first-degree murder trial of 47-year-old Michael Dunn. Jurors could begin deliberating Wednesday […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deliberations in the federal corruption case against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin were delayed for a day Tuesday because of a juror’s unspecified problem. An assistant to U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan said deliberations were scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The 12-member jury had broken for the evening […]
Blake Brockington (pictured) recently made history when he became the first transgender teen in the state of North Carolina to be crowned homecoming king, according…
“Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” author, Sheryl Sandberg has teamed up with Getty images to offer a special collection of images…
Hear the first installment of the Reality Radio with Cathy Hughes’ “Living History” segment, featuring Chaka Fattah here In the Philadelphia area, Congressman Chaka Fattah is a household name. Elected to the Pennsylvania State House at age 27, Fattah, now 57, has long been known for his support for African-Americans, the working class and […]
