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The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Secretary Of Education, Arne Duncan gave a speech in Chicago where he claimed that Martin Luther King would be upset at the education system if he were alive today. In a speech in Chicago Saturday, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Professor Cornel West confesses that he’s having second thoughts about President Obama. In an interview with Playboy, he said he wished the president were more “Martin Luther King-like.”
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired Friday by the news network after he went on a tirade during a radio interview calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and accusing the “elite, Northeast establishment liberals” of labeling him as “second-tier” because of his Cuban-American background, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the […]
Police arrested the man they say provided the gun that killed one person and injure several others at an off-campus party attended by students from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Senior citizens who are black are more likely to be the victims of psychological and financial abuse as elders of other races.
The Root obtained the audio clip below from a source at the National Association for Consumer Advocates, a group that helped Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) craft the End Debt Collector Abuse Act (EDCAA) bill. Though the clip depicts the behavior of just one California debt collector, it’s the kind of virulent harassment that has become […]
Bishop Eddie Long did not directly mention the accusations to thousands of cheering supporters during services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Lithonia. But his remarks seemed directly addressed to his accusers.
President Barack Obama is promoting his administration’s investments in clean energy technologies like wind and solar, arguing they produce jobs and are essential for the country’s environment and economic security.
Q. Do you think Cuomo is relying in the debate on you attacking him from the left and Carl Paladino attacking him from the right and he’ll come off looking mainstream? A. “He can rely on that all he wants. He has to answer to the people of the State of New York, not who’s […]