Category: National News

LONDON (AP) — Britons swept up, patched up and feared further violence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights of rioting left looted stores, torched cars and blackened buildings across London and several other U.K. cities. Police said they were working full-tilt, but found themselves under attack — from rioters roaming […]

The story reads as one straight out of the 1950s or ‘60s: White vigilantes murder Black man in Jackson, Miss. But, the incident happened in June of this year, belying recent claims that America has outrun its racist history. According to an Aug. 7 CNN news report, a posse of White teens allegedly hunted for […]

A recent analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that Black and Hispanic households that earn more than $75,000 annually live in poorer neighborhoods. These groups were found to live in poorer communities than the average low-income non-Hispanic White household that makes less than $40,000 per year, USA Today reports. Blacks and Hispanics live in […]

Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan is playing damage control after creating a bit of controversy when he referred to President Barack Obama as “your boy” in a discussion with Rev. Al Sharpton. Buchanan, a former Republican presidential candidate, was appearing on a show Sharpton was hosting on MSNBC Aug. 2 when he brought up the issue […]

President Barack Obama joined the 50-and-over club on Aug. 4, reaching a milestone that often brings wisdom with age. “Once you get to 50, you realize what is really important and what is not,” said Saundra Chipungu, chair of the doctoral program at Morgan State University. As years progress, people begin to understand what they […]

Congress may have averted a global financial meltdown of their own making with the passage of a controversial deficit control bill on Aug. 2, but some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) say the worst is yet to come. “This is a choice between a job killing default and a job killing austerity plan,” […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The former al-Shabab foot soldiers assigned to a drab cement housing bloc are young — too young. One is only 9, yet they were enforcers of harsh edicts from Islamist militants who are preventing thousands of Somalis from escaping famine. The Associated Press obtained rare access to the former fighters at […]

Bishop Eddie Long could have faced sex abuse allegations from a fifth man, whose claims only came to light during settlement negotiations in the other cases, according to an Atlanta TV station. Atlanta Fox affiliate WAGA reported that 22-year-old Centino Kemp never filed a lawsuit against Long, pastor of a megachurch in that city, but […]

The debt deal announced today is a victory for bipartisan compromise, for the economy and for the American people. The agreement: -Removes the cloud of uncertainty over our economy at this critical time, by ensuring that no one will be able to use the threat of the nation’s first default now, or in only a […]

The economy expanded at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the spring after scarcely growing at all in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said July 29. The combined growth for the first six months of the year was the weakest since the recession ended two years ago. The government […]

The Rev. Dr. Howard Creecy Jr., who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as president for just seven months, died July 28 of an apparent heart attack. He was 57. Creecy, a longtime civil-rights activist and father of two, died in the early morning hours at his home in Atlanta. While the cause of his […]

Education is the key to breaking Black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said Thursday at the close of the annual NAACP convention. The plight of Black males, which have above average rates of joblessness, incarceration, HIV infection and lower rates of educational achievement, was one of the themes […]