Author Archives: AFRO Staff

Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo made controversial statements about President Obama, voting procedures, and immigration in his kickoff speech at the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tenn. on February 4. Among his statements, Tancredo called for the return of a poll tax, which those wishing to vote must pay. Tancredo also said potential voters […]

Surfing the Web could be hazardous to your mental health, according to a new study. The study, conducted by British scientists, indicated that the longer people spent online, the less likely they were to be happy. However, the study did not indicate whether using the Internet causes mental health problems, or if individuals already diagnosed […]

President Obama intends to overhaul the No Child Left Behind education law, changing the school accountability system that has placed a failing label on over a third of schools, the Associated Press reported. No Child Left Behind pushes schools to improve test scores each year with the goal of making all U.S. children able to […]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on February 4 filed charges of fraud against corporate giant Bank of America, as well as Kenneth Lewis and Joseph Price, the bank’s former chief executive and financial officer, respectively. According to The Washington Post, Cuomo alleges that the two former Bank of America executives lied to investors and […]

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R) has set off a round of controversy with his comparison of providing government assistances to individuals in Greenville, S.C., to “feeding stray animals.” According to Columbia, S.C. newspaper The State, Bauer’s remarks came during a Jan. 22 town hall meeting which included both lawmakers and residents. “My grandmother […]

Caressa Cameron, 22, a broadcast journalism student enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University, beat out 53 contestants in the annual Miss America pageant held at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 30. She is the first Black Miss America since Ericka Dunlap won the title in 2005. “I hope to gain inspiration, I hope […]

Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee Archer, a former Tuskegee Airman during World War II, died January 27 at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City. He was 90. Archer was born on September 6, 1919 in Yonkers, N.Y. and raised in Harlem. He attended New York University before dropping out and enlisting in […]

Dillon County, S.C. has some of the worst public education facilities in the nation, facilities so bad that they caught the eye of then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Now, President Obama has decided to do something about the horrid state of the buildings, some of which are nearly 115 years old. The county’s schools will […]