Category: National News

Bishop E.W. Jackson presents a petition asking for the removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery. (Courtesy Photo) Planned Parenthood, the abortion rights group, recently came under attack from a group of local ministers, known collectively as Ministers Taking a Stand. The group is demanding that the bust of the […]

For many of the young activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of vigilante George Zimmerman by a Sanford, Florida jury of Whites marked a tragic coming of age. Until that moment, most Black millennials in the U.S. operated under the illusion that they were […]

Bob Kunst, of Miami Beach, Fla., wears a Hillary Rodham Clinton mask while attending a Tea Party rally against the Iran deal on the West Lawn, of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015. The rally is expected to be attended by Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn […]

Judge Barry Williams (Courtesy Photo) The Freddie Gray saga moved from the streets to the courtroom last week, turning a world-sized spotlight on Associate Judge Barry Williams, the Baltimore City Circuit Court jurist who is overseeing the criminal cases of the police officers charged in Gray’s death. But the 53-year-old is unlikely to wilt under […]

A mural in Baltimore depicts Freddie Gray. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) BALTIMORE (AP) — A city board approved on Wednesday a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who died a week after he was critically injured while in police custody. The settlement, announced Tuesday, could play a role in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House hopes for stopping a congressional challenge to the Iran nuclear deal and sparing President Barack Obama from using a veto suffered a blow Friday when a key Senate Democrat announced his opposition. President Barack Obama, right, meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White […]

(Inset Photo) In this March 24, 2015 file photo, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. PBS will air a remastered edition of Burns’ 1990 documentary, “The Civil War”on five consecutive nights, from September 7 – 11. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Burns is looking back at his series “The Civil War” as […]

In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Ranking Member Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. is seen during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill to review the Iran nuclear agreement. Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, has announced he opposes the nuclear deal with Iran. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON (AP) — […]

COLLEGE PARK – Sen. Barbara Mikulski became the 34th senator to back President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran on Wednesday, essentially ensuring that the controversial deal will not be stopped by the Senate. In this March 2, 2015 file photo, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress, speaks during […]

Attorneys in the case Coalition v. MHEC, in which a federal judge found Maryland guilty of illegally perpetuating a dual higher education system though duplication of programs at historically Black institutions, warned that implementation of a remedy is likely a long way off. “What’s difficult for the public to appreciate is that there is no […]

This April 22, 2014, file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Roderick Nunley. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, said it would not stop the execution of Nunley in Missouri. Nunley who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri’s death row was executed Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and stabbing […]

Former Police Chief Richard Combs (left), and Eutawville resident Bernard Bailey. (Orangeburg County Detention Center and Bailey Family Photo) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A White former police chief will have to spend a year under home detention but won’t have to serve any prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed Black man. […]