WASHINGTON (AP) — Battered by repeated failures to repeal or replace “Obamacare,” Senate GOP leaders retreated to a narrow approach Thursday that would undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obama’s law. Democrats vowed opposition as the Senate prepared for a bizarre Capitol Hill ritual, a “vote-a-rama” on amendments that promised […]
New York City’s medical examiner’s office ruled Wednesday that Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s drowning in April was a suicide, the New York Daily News reports. The body of Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman to serve on New York’s highest court, was found dead in the Hudson River on April 12. Finding no signs of criminality, the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has a book deal. Henry Holt and Co. told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Abrams’ “Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change” is scheduled for next spring. According to Holt, her book will combine her life story with “real-world, how-to […]
Award-winning director Delila Vallot takes an in-depth look at how African-American homeless people are treated in our country with her latest documentary Mighty Ground. The film, which also explores our broken system of race and economic class, follows homeless singer Ronald Troy Collins as he struggles with drug addiction and hustling to survive day-to-day by singing to people on the streets of […]
If you didn’t catch The Mann’s Family World Tour, you’re in luck because the duo has just announced more dates for Fall 2017. See if your city made the cut below but don’t worry as they reassure even MORE dates will be added. Follow The Willie Moore Jr. Show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! (Photo: PR)
People are realizing that “this is not a Black or White thing,” Valerie Castile said at a rally for the Australian woman fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer.
The Jamaican father of an 11-year-old slain New Jersey girl pleaded with President Donald Trump Monday to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. for his daughter's funeral.
Dr. Alex Ellis stands out in a crowd – not just because he is 6’5” tall. Dressed as if he’s on the way to close a business deal, when people see him suited and booted, dressed to the 9s or what old-school people call ‘casket sharp,’ they know he’s on a mission. He’s a man with […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seek a good education. Control blood pressure and diabetes. Get off the couch. There are some hints, but no proof yet, that these and other lifestyle changes just might help stave off dementia. A provocative report in the British journal Lancet Thursday raised the prospect that a third of dementia cases around […]
LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) — O.J. Simpson will be paroled after serving nine years in prison for a botched bid to retrieve sports memorabilia in Las Vegas. A Nevada parole board decided Thursday that the 70-year-old former football, TV and movie star will be released in October after serving his minimum term for armed robbery and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks will interrupt this presidency on Thursday to revisit an old obsession. ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, HLN and ESPN will show O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing at a Nevada prison, as he seeks freedom after spending more than eight years locked up for armed robbery and assault. […]
