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WASHINGTON (AP) — The ethics trial of Rep. Maxine Waters was postponed Friday, as the House ethics committee found new documents connected to charges that she improperly tried to help a bank in which her husband owned stock.
NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and New York police Commissioner Ray Kelly are teaming up to help get guns off city streets.
Kansas (TheGrio)–The police chief of the small town of Nickerson, Kansas has resigned in protest after city council members refused to allow her to hire an African-American officer.
Brooklyn (NYDailyNews)– A Brooklyn mom sued a Long Island hospital Thursday, claiming doctors botched a simple procedure that left her a double amputee.
Washington (HuffPo)– In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin — the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States — has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama. In a passage on perceptions of racial inequality in the […]
Amid the next crop of recipients to be awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama — a list that includes African-American luminaries such as Maya Angelou and Bill Russell — is a rather curious entry: George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the father of the man that President […]
National (TheRoot)– Forty-four-year-old Cassandra Jackson recently returned home to Chicago from Memphis, Tenn., in hopes of upgrading her quality of life and beating the odds faced by so many single African-American mothers: finding a job.
WASHINGTON (HuffPo) — Two of the top consultants in the Democratic Party leveled unusually blunt criticisms on Thursday over what they deemed a “total mis-framing” of an economic message by the Obama White House.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NBC)–A Columbus father who is accused of slamming his infant son to the ground faces murder charges.
Texas (HuffPo)– Texas State Representative Leo Berman (R) furthered his campaign against President Obama Tuesday, a man that he has before characterized as “God’s punishment on us,” by introducing a bill that would require future presidential and vice-presidential candidates to produce “the original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen” […]