Julius Henson, past campaign consultant to former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich was ordered by a U.S. District Court judge to pay $1 million to the state for sending out robocalls to prevent Black voters from visiting the polls in 2010. According to the Associated Press, Attorney General Douglas Gansler announced Judge Catherine Blake’s order on […]
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Barbara Graves, Wife of Black Enterprise Publisher, Dies at 74
Barbara Kydd Graves, wife of Black Enterprise (BE) Magazine founder and publisher Earl G. Graves Sr. and one of the key forces in the development of the 40 year-old magazine, died May 25 at Howard University Hospital after a three-year battle against cancer. She was 74. Since the creation of the influential monthly publication for […]
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NFL Players Union Sues Owners for ‘Secret Salary Cap’ in 2010
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has filed a federal lawsuit against the league and its owners, alleging that the owners conspired to set a “secret salary cap” for the year of 2010, according to reports. According to ESPN the players union will attempt to prove that the league’s owner colluded to establish a […]
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Shaq Scratches His Name from Orlando Magic GM Short List
National Basketball Association former superstar center Shaquille O’Neal May 24 denied having any interest in becoming general manager of the Orlando Magic, the team where he made his pro basketball debut in 1992. The 20-year veteran, who holds five NBA championship rings, said he considered the current prospect but has no interest. “When I first […]
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New French Government Names Three Black Cabinet Ministers
Three Blacks sit atop the new government unveiled this month by newly elected President Francois Hollande, making the French Republic the European leader in political diversity with a government loaded with people of color. All three are from the Caribbean region and one is a veteran Parisian lawmaker. A prominent member of the new cabinet […]
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Key Figure in Gray Campaign Scandal Seeks Mayor’s Resignation
Former D.C. mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown, who said he was paid by Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign to undermine then-incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty, called on Gray to resign after one of the mayor’s campaign staffers pleaded guilty to providing funds to Brown, destroying evidence and obstructing the investigation into the case and another was accused of […]
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FAMU Band Members Say Drum Major Volunteered for Hazing
Florida A&M University band members say that the drum major who died during hazing willingly got on a bus to face an initiation ritual in which he was beaten with drumsticks, mallets and fists. According to transcripts of interviews with police investigators released May 23, band members say that drum major Robert Champion knew what […]
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AME Church Bishop H. Hartford Brookins, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 86
Hamel Hartford Brookins, a bishop for 30 years of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a veteran civil rights activist, died on May 22 in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 86. Brookins, the son of sharecroppers, helped implement school desegregation in Kansas following the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, […]
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Arizona Secretary of State Rescinds Ballot Challenge to Obama, Birth Records Acceptable
The quest for data to dim the image of President Obama is picking up steam, and money, even as one conservative critic admitted failure May 23 in his effort to use questions about Obama’s birthplace to block his re-election. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who is co-managing Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s Arizona campaign, […]
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D.C. Government, Brown Family Plan Mammoth Farewell to `Godfather of Go-Go’: May 29-31
Washington, D.C. is staging a farewell to Chuck Brown, native son and the godfather of Go-Go, that will begin with a 11-hour public viewing May 29 at the Howard Theater and conclude with a three-hour public memorial service at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center May 31, Brown’s family and D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray […]
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Norton Rails at Republican D.C. Gun Law Exemption
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), already upset from being denied a chance to testify against a measure that would ban late-term abortions in the District, rebuked the House of Representatives for approving a non-binding measure calling for active-duty military personnel to be exempt from the District’s gun laws. According to The Washington Post, the […]