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James Harris is one of the names lost to sports history, until now. Harris is credited as being the first black player to start a season at quarterback in professional football, making his debut in the position for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League in 1969. (He was not the first to start a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the jury verdict that cleared the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin “questionable” and urged President Barack Obama to speak more on issues of race during an interview that aired Sunday. The first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Martin verdict […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says the spirit of the 1963 March on Washington now demands equal rights for gays, Latinos, women and people with disabilities. Speaking before tens of thousands of people on the National Mall, the nation’s first black attorney general praised those who faced repression and brutality to march a […]
Join us as we march and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Send us your photos via social media using #MLK50 and we’ll include your photos in a gallery on BlackAmericaWeb.com. With the continuing challenges of Black America in mind, despite our first African-American president, it’s a good […]
Police are currently on the lookout for a pervert (pictured) who allegedly pulled a knife on a woman and her children, when she asked him…
By law, 20-year-old Caleb Clemmons is not allowed to use Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or Twitter for the next five years. (Yes, this means no…
A Mississippi teenager has been accused of killing his father with the help of three accomplices–including a police officer, the Clarion-Ledger reports. Kenneth Thompson, 53,…
Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with Antoinette Tuff, the bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., who is responsible for talking an armed gunman out of killing tons of innocent children and adults. Tuff explained how her faith in God allowed her to be a hero that day, telling Reid […]
Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. received a forfeiture order from the United States District Court, asking the embattled politician to fork over $750,000 and give up some of his prized possessions. Jackson Jr. has to cough up a wide array of items, reports NBC Chicago, including: $10,000 worth of Bruce Lee memorabilia $5,000 football […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department sued Texas on Thursday over the state’s voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over its redistricting laws that minority groups complain are discriminatory, but Texas Republicans insist are designed to protect the state’s elections from fraud. Attorney General Eric Holder said the action […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the U.S. achieved Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream of a colorblind society? Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality, a new poll shows. Despite a heightened sense of racial progress immediately following the 2008 election of the […]
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The 15-year-old co-defendant of a man accused of fatally shooting a baby in a stroller during a robbery attempt in coastal Georgia said the 18-year-old counted down twice before firing the shot that killed the baby. Dominique Lang testified Thursday he was walking with Elkins March 21 when they saw Sherry […]
