Native Americans struggle with double consciousness during the Thanksgiving holiday.
How can we advance the issues of economics and fair trade between the United States and the African nations represented at this years leadership summit? Susan…
There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near…
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their Islamic extremist captors as U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft started flying over the West African country. Boko Haram, the militant group that is holding some 276 female students it kidnapped last month […]
The U.S. Senate voted to move forward with the bill that would extend unemployment benefits, which expired three days after Christmas. It provides benefits to roughly 1.3 million eligible workers for three months, costing roughly $6.5 billion. The bill now heads to the Senate for a full debate and vote. For more details. Click here.
President Barack Obama announced his delegates to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia. And, in what may be a thumb in the eye to Russian President Vladimir Putin over his crackdown on gay rights, two of Obama’s delegates are openly gay: tennis legend Billie Jean King and ice hockey Olympic medalist Caitlin Cahow. For […]
Mexicans are all about taking things away from Americans. First they take our low-level jobs, then they make tacos more popular than apple pie and…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party’s national convention in Charlotte. The causes are plenty. Labor unions, a core Democratic constituency, are up in arms. Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue isn’t running for […]
