Category: National News

Marissa Johnson, left, speaks as Mara Jacqueline Willaford stands with her and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stands nearby as the two women take over the microphone at a rally Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in downtown Seattle. The women, co-founders of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter, took over the microphone moments […]

President Barack Obama speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. The President used the speech to announce a set of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America’s transition to cleaner sources of energy and ways to cut energy waste. […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter announced Thursday that he will begin radiation treatment on cancer that is on multiple spots on his brain. Former President Jimmy Carter talks about his cancer diagnosis during a news conference at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Carter announced that his cancer is […]

National Guard member Sgt. Ricky Wheelington (left) holds Tyrone Allen, 2, as he arrives for shelter at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Around 26,000 people took shelter in the Superdome as the hurricane made landfall. (AP Photo/Melissa Phillip) Almost 10 years ago, the world watched as the waters […]

In this Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, file photo, former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes asks a question during a forum on community-police relations at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland. Stokes, a 15-term Ohio congressman who took on tough assignments looking into assassinations and scandals, died late Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Stokes was 90. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, […]

President Barack Obama meets with Emma Didlake, 110, of Detroit, the oldest known World War veteran, in the Oval Office of the White House on July 17. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) A Michigan woman who was believed to be the nation’s oldest veteran at 110 has died, about a month after meeting President Barack Obama […]

(Photo Credit/300menmarch.com) The weather was a steamy 82 degrees on August 16 around 5 p.m. when men in black t-shirts began gathering in Carroll Park in South West Baltimore. While families hung out at the park’s picnic tables, or strolled along in the grass, the men were getting set to walk 35 miles from Baltimore […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Through the tough struggles of the civil rights movement, Julian Bond always kept his sense of humor, and it was his steady demeanor that helped him persist despite the inevitable difficulties involved, his wife recalled. FILE- In this Oct. 13, 2006, file photo, Julian Bond, chairman of the Board for The National […]

In this July 8, 2007, file photo shows NAACP Chairman Julian Bond addresses the civil rights organization’s annual convention in Detroit. Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) FORT WALTON BEACH, […]

President Barack Obama and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (AP Photos) EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are expected to rub shoulders at a civil rights leader’s soiree on Martha’s Vineyard, bringing the sitting president together with his potential successor. Both Obama and the 2016 Democratic front-runner plan to attend […]

President Barack Obama (left) and “The President’s Playlist” (right). (AP and Spotify photos) CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — By day, President Barack Obama enjoys the music of such artists as Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and the Bobs — Dylan and Marley. When the sun starts to set, his tastes shift to the mellifluous sounds […]

In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, photo, Ruby Sales, founder and director of The SpiritHouse Project, an Atlanta-based nonprofit dealing with discrimination, sits for a photo in Atlanta. Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then lament today’s killings of blacks by […]