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A squabble at a council meeting in a Georgia city has caught the attention of the NAACP after a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field.
The Obama administration has notified Congress of plans for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia. The sale is meant to further align the Saudi military relationship with the United States and allow the kingdom to better protect its security and oil structure, which “is critical to our economic interests,” said Andrew Shapiro, assistant […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $18.5 million to a New York City man who was exonerated four years ago after spending more than two decades in prison. Alan Newton was cleared by DNA evidence in 2006. He had been sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison after being convicted […]
Virginia Beach Republican Party chair Dave Bartholomew is under fire for an email that he forwarded comparing African Americans to dogs and mocking African Americans for being poor and having a lack of father figures. Here’s the Email. MY DOG I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare. At first the […]
Get all excited along with us as we all mark our calendars and set our DVRs for a featured appearance gospel music fans have been waiting for this week. If you didn’t know, Light Records national gospel recording artists James “JJ” Hairston & Youthful Praise will be among tonight’s featured guests at the Trinity Broadcasting […]
The Washington Post reports that a textbook given to fourth-graders in the Commonwealth of Virginia details that thousands of African American soldiers fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most Civil War historians.
Rand Paul is running for Senator for Kentucky with no political or executive experience at all. The two things he has going for him is his father’s name and his connection to the Tea Party movement. Like his father and the Tea Party movements, he has been tied to racism and white supremacist groups. In […]
A section of Times Square in New York has been reopened as police investigate a suspicious vehicle, a detective tells FoxNews.com. A man was reported seen running from the vehicle, which started the security scare. Police originally blocked off and cleared pedestrians on 43rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Failed Times Square bomber Faisal […]
For six months, I have lived and worked near ground zero of the worst oil disaster in US history. I’ve traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. I watched tough, resourceful people of the bayou weep at the sight of the oily tide […]
President Obama may be skipping a trip to a prominent Sikh holy site in India due to worries that wearing the appropriate headgear may reinforce incorrect rumors that he is in fact a Muslim, rather than a Christian.